Daily Cyber Brief
Taiwan suffers DDoS attacks during Pelosi's arrival, Semikron was hit by a ransomware attack, and researchers uncover a new hacking framework used by Chinese cybercriminals...
Cybersecurity
Key Taiwanese websites experienced intermittent outages Tuesday due to some minor cyberattacks just ahead of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s arrival in Taiwan. The attacks hit at least four websites — those of President Tsai Ing-wen, the National Defense Ministry…
A California man has been found guilty(Opens in a new window) of hacking into T-Mobile systems to unlock cell phones from the mobile carrier, which he turned into a multi-million-dollar business. Argishti Khudaverdyan, 44, originally owned a T-Mobile store in the Eagle…
The ALPHV ransomware gang, aka BlackCat, claimed responsibility for a cyberattack against Creos Luxembourg S.A. last week, a natural gas pipeline and electricity network operator in the central European country. Creos’ owner, Encevo, who operates as an energy…
Crypto platform Nomad was robbed of more than $156 million in cryptocurrency on Monday evening after a vulnerability in a recent update was discovered and replicated by dozens of hackers. Nomad – a company that facilitates cryptocurrency trades between different…
German power electronics manufacturer Semikron has disclosed that it was hit by a ransomware attack that partially encrypted the company's network. Semikron has over 3,000 employees in 24 offices and 8 production sites worldwide across Germany, Brazil, China…
Researchers have disclosed a new offensive framework called Manjusaka that they call a "Chinese sibling of Sliver and Cobalt Strike." "A fully functional version of the command-and-control (C2), written in GoLang with a User Interface in Simplified Chinese, is freely…
VMware has warned admins today to patch a critical authentication bypass security flaw affecting local domain users in multiple products and enabling unauthenticated attackers to gain admin privileges. The flaw (CVE-2022-31656) was reported by Petrus Viet of VNG…
Researchers are warning about a new, large-scale phishing campaign aimed at Microsoft Outlook email services users. The team at ThreatLabz discovered the new phishing kit and said it uses an adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) model, which can be effective for evading…
Spain’s leading scientific research body was targeted by a cyberattack that national authorities suspect had its origin in Russia, the country’s science ministry said Tuesday. Spain’s science ministry said the Spanish National Research Council was targeted by the ransomware attack…
MBDA, one of the largest missile developers and manufacturers in Europe, has responded to rumors about a cyberattack on its infrastructure saying that claims of a breach of its systems are false. A statement from the company clarifies that it was the target of a criminal group…