Daily Cyber Brief
U.S. airports are hit by pro-Russian DDoS attacks, Toyota discloses data leak affecting customer PII, and Intel confirms source code leak of Alder Lake CPU...
Cybersecurity
The websites for a number of major US airports were briefly taken offline Monday after a cyberattack promoted by a pro-Russian hacking group. The distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks hit the airport websites of several major US cities including Atlanta, Chicago…
Representatives from Ukraine’s State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection (SSSCIP) and the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) recently met to discuss strengthening cooperation and networking. The working meeting was held during…
Administrators running Zimbra servers are being warned to update their systems with the "pax" utility by researchers, who have observed cyberattackers actively attempting to exploit a known flaw. Zimbra is a cloud-hosted email and employee collaboration platform…
Toyota Motor Corporation is warning that customers' personal information may have been exposed after an access key was publicly available on GitHub for almost five years. Toyota T-Connect is the automaker's official connectivity app that allows owners of Toyota cars to link…
Intel has confirmed that the alleged leak of its Alder Lake BIOS source code is authentic, potentially raising cybersecurity risks for customers. Last week, the firm’s BIOS/UEFI code was apparently posted on 4chan and Github in a repository named ‘ICE_TEA_BIOS.’…
A new piece of research has detailed the increasingly sophisticated nature of the malware toolset employed by an advanced persistent threat (APT) group named Earth Aughisky. "Over the last decade, the group has continued to make adjustments in the tools and malware…
What if a hacker could guess your passwords from the heat you leave behind on your keyboard? A group of computer security researchers at the University of Glasgow's School of Computing Science in the UK succeeded in deploying such an attack. In a paper to be…
Hackers have attacked a second subsidiary of Singapore Telecommunications Ltd (Singtel), the company said Monday, but analysts said it appeared the Southeast Asian telecom giant was not being specifically targeted. In a filing with the Singapore Exchange, Singtel included…
Threat actors associated with the notorious Emotet malware are continually shifting their tactics and command-and-control (C2) infrastructure to escape detection, according to new research from VMware. Emotet is the work of a threat actor tracked as Mummy Spider…