Daily Cyber Brief
Russian military hackers linked to ransomware attacks in Ukraine, new malware in PNGs using steganography, and Kaspersky to kill VPN service in Russia next week...
Cybersecurity
A series of attacks targeting transportation and logistics organizations in Ukraine and Poland with Prestige ransomware since October have been linked to an elite Russian military cyberespionage group. Researchers with Microsoft Security Threat Intelligence (MSTIC)…
A threat group tracked as 'Worok' hides malware within PNG images to infect victims' machines with information-stealing malware without raising alarms. This has been confirmed by researchers at Avast, who built upon the findings of ESET, the first to spot and report on…
Kaspersky is stopping the operation and sales of its VPN product, Kaspersky Secure Connection, in the Russian Federation, with the free version to be suspended as early as November 15, 2022. As the Moscow-based company informed on its Russian blog earlier this…
One of the most popular motor racing circuits in the United Kingdom is investigating a ransomware attack after a gang added it to its list of victims this week. “We are aware of this posting and are investigating this matter,” a spokesperson for Silverstone Circuit told The…
Windows 11 will soon let you filter processes in the Task Manager by their name, process ID, or publisher, making it easier to find a running program. As new versions of Windows are released, the Task Manager has increasingly begun to fill up with a long list of running…
Cybersecurity professionals have long discussed the notion that future conflicts will no longer be fought just on a physical battlefield, but in the digital space as well. Although recent conflicts show that the physical battlefield isn't going anywhere soon, we are also seeing more…
A ongoing phishing campaign has infected thousands of home and corporate users with a new version of the 'IceXLoader' malware. The authors of IceXLoader, a malware loader first spotted in the wild this summer, have released version 3.3.3, enhancing the tool’s…
The November 2022 Android update includes a remediation for a bug that could allow an attacker to bypass the Google Pixel lock screen. The researcher behind the discovery, David Schütz, reported the Google Pixel security flaw back in June after a series of errors led him to…
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warned today that Venus ransomware attacks are also targeting the country's healthcare organizations. In an analyst note issued by the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3), HHS' security…
One of LockBit's alleged ringleaders has been arrested in Ontario, Canada and is on his way to the US to face charges related to ransomware attacks against at least a thousand victims, according to the Department of Justice. Dual Russian-Canadian citizen Mikhail Vasiliev is…