Daily Cyber Brief
The British government bans Chinese surveillance cameras in sensitive areas, several U.S. colleges were targeted over the Thanksgiving holiday, and the data of 5.4M Twitter users is leaked online...
Cybersecurity
New ransomware attacks targeting organizations in Ukraine first detected this Monday have been linked to the notorious Russian military threat group Sandworm. Slovak software company ESET who first spotted this wave of attacks, says the ransomware they named…\
The British government has banned departments from installing at sensitive locations surveillance cameras manufactured by Chinese companies due to potential information security issues, and is facing calls to ban them entirely from the public sector…
Microsoft has tied an attack on seven facilities managing the electricity grid in Northern India to a vulnerability affecting a web server discontinued in 2005 but still used widely by vendors across a variety of IoT devices and popular software development kits. Members of…
An operation by Interpol which concluded this week led to the seizure of more than $129 million in “virtual assets” and the arrests of almost 1,000 suspects, the organization announced on Thursday. The operation comes at a significant moment for international…
A series of exploits have been found in the wild targeting Windows Internet Key Exchange (IKE) Protocol Extensions. According to a new advisory recently shared by security company Cyfirma with Infosecurity, the discovered vulnerabilities could have been exploited to target…
Google released new software patches on Thursday to address a new zero-day vulnerability in its Chrome web browser. Writing in a security bulletin, the tech giant described the high-severity vulnerability (tracked CVE-2022-4135) as a heap buffer overflow in the graphics…
Remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform ConnectWise has patched a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that could lead to remote code execution (RCE). Security researchers at Guardio Labs wrote about the flaw earlier this week, saying threat actors could...
Cincinnati State College was one of several small U.S. colleges added to the leak sites of ransomware groups over the Thanksgiving holiday, continuing a trend of educational institutions being targeted by hackers. On Tuesday, the school said it is still investigating…
The Ragnar Locker ransomware gang has published stolen data from what they thought was the municipality of Zwijndrecht, but turned out to be stolen from Zwijndrecht police, a local police unit in Antwerp, Belgium. The leaked data reportedly exposed thousands of car…
Over 5.4 million Twitter user records containing non-public information stolen using an API vulnerability fixed in January have been shared for free on a hacker forum. Another massive, potentially more significant, data dump of millions of Twitter records has also been disclosed...