Daily Cyber Brief
Cheerscrypt ransomware is linked to a Chinese hacking group, the FBI warns of Pig Butchering crypto schemes, and a poisoned Tor browser spied on Chinese users...
Cybersecurity
Large swathes of Bangladesh were left without electricity on Tuesday after a grid failure, a government official said, adding that authorities were working to gradually restore power supply in the country of 168 million people. The country's power grid malfunctioned at…
U.S. cybersecurity, law enforcement and intelligence officials revealed on Tuesday that sophisticated hackers infiltrated a likely U.S. military contractor and maintained “persistent, long-term” access to their system. The National Security Agency, the Cybersecurity…
A Canadian affiliate of the NetWalker ransomware group was sentenced to 20 years in prison Tuesday for his role in a hacking campaign targeting a Florida company. Sebastien Vachon-Desjardins, a 34-year-old from Quebec, had already been sentenced to seven years in prison…
The Cheerscrypt ransomware has been linked to a Chinese hacking group named 'Emperor Dragonfly,' known to frequently switch between ransomware families to evade attribution. The ransomware gang is tracked under different names, such as Bronze Starlight…
Researchers have disclosed details about a now-patched high-severity security flaw in Packagist, a PHP software package repository, that could have been exploited to mount software supply chain attacks. "This vulnerability allows gaining control of Packagist,"…
Optus confirmed yesterday that 2.1 million customers had government identification numbers compromised during a cyberattack last month. In a press statement released yesterday, the mobile carrier updated the information regarding the personal data of 9.8 million customers…
Telstra, Australia's largest telecom carrier, reported this week that it was the victim of a data breach — just two weeks after its rival telco Optus reported a cyberattack of its own. According to a Reuters report, Telstra is downplaying the incident, calling it a "small data…
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warns of a rise in 'Pig Butchering' cryptocurrency scams used to steal ever-increasing amounts of crypto from unsuspecting investors. The warning was issued as a Private Industry Notification from the FBI Miami Field Office in…
A modified version of the Tor Browser collected sensitive data on Chinese users since at least March, maybe as early as January, that included browsing history, form data, computer name and location, user name and MAC addresses of network adapters, researchers with the…
In a perfect example of there being no honor among thieves, a threat actor named 'Water Labbu' is hacking into cryptocurrency scam sites to inject malicious JavaScript that steals funds from the scammer's victims. In July, the FBI warned of scam 'dApps'…