Daily Cyber Brief
Ukrainian behind Raccoon MaaS is indicted, the Hive group begins to leak stolen data from energy corporation, and Dutch police arrest 19-year-old behind healthcare hack...
Cybersecurity
Germany’s federal cybersecurity office warned on Tuesday that ransomware, political hacking, and other cybersecurity threats facing the country are “higher than ever.” In its annual report, the office said ongoing criminal activities were responsible for the threat level, alongside…
Online access in Sudan was disrupted Tuesday as tens of thousands protested on the anniversary of a military coup that derailed a transition towards democratic governance. Multiple global web traffic monitors reported an internet shutdown that significantly…
US tech giant Meta said Tuesday it had fixed a global outage affecting its messaging service WhatsApp after users around the world complained that they were unable to send or receive messages Problems with the hugely popular service were reported by monitoring site…
Australian private insurer Medibank on Tuesday confirmed that a recently disclosed cyberattack impacts the data of more customers than initially thought. The announcement came days after hackers threatened to target celebrities. Identified on October 12, the…
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added two Cisco and four Gigabyte product flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Only one of the Gigabyte vulnerabilities was previously mentioned as being involved in attacks. The Cisco…
The Hive ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group has claimed responsibility for a cyber attack against Tata Power that was disclosed by the company less than two weeks ago. The incident is said to have occurred on October 3, 2022. The threat actor has also been observed leaking…
An automated and large-scale 'freejacking' campaign abuses free GitHub, Heroku, and Buddy services to mine cryptocurrency at the provider's expense. The operation relies on abusing the limited resources offered to free-tier cloud accounts to generate a tiny profit from each free…
The Dutch police have arrested a 19-year-old man in western Netherlands, suspected of breaching the systems of a healthcare software vendor in the country, and stealing tens of thousands of documents. These documents might contain sensitive personal and medical…
Microsoft tied hackers with the Vice Society ransomware gang to several ransomware strains on Tuesday, noting that the group has been behind a wave of attacks on primary schools and colleges across the world. Microsoft Security Threat Intelligence said Vice Society hackers…
The Justice Department on Tuesday unsealed charges against a Ukrainian national for his role in the Raccoon Infostealer malware-as-a-service operation, which U.S. law enforcement officials blamed for infecting millions of computers around the world to steal personal data…