Daily Cyber Brief
Vice Society claims responsibility for attack on Palermo, Feds forced travel firms to provide data on hacker, and dark web markets begin to sell military equipment from Ukraine...
Cybersecurity
Russia warned the West on Thursday that cyber attacks against its infrastructure risked leading to direct military confrontation, and that attempts to challenge Moscow in the cyber sphere would be met with targeted countermeasures. The warning comes after Russia's…
Russia's invasion of Ukraine and its accompanying geopolitical turmoil may be occupying US adversaries, but they're still a threat to the US in cyberspace. That's the message Matthew Olson, Assistant Attorney General for National Security at the Department of Justice…
Cybersecurity researchers have taken the wraps off what they call a "nearly-impossible-to-detect" Linux malware that could be weaponized to backdoor infected systems. Dubbed Symbiote by threat intelligence firms BlackBerry and Intezer, the stealthy malware is so…
The Vice Society ransomware group has claimed responsibility for the recent cyber attack on the city of Palermo in Italy, which has caused a large-scale service outage. The attack occurred last Friday, and all internet-relying services remain unavailable, impacting 1.3…
Tenafly Public Schools in Bergen County, New Jersey is in the process of recovering from a ransomware attack that began on June 2. The school was forced to cancel final exams as they restore systems and address the incident, according to district communications manager…
Sabre and Travelport had to report the weekly activities of former “Cardplanet” cybercriminal Aleksei Burkov for two years, info that eventually led to his arrest and prosecution. The U.S. government ordered two travel companies to provide information about…
A new ransomware is taking the unusual approach of selling its decryptor on the Roblox gaming platform using the service's in-game Robux currency. Roblox is an online kids gaming platform where members can create their own games and monetize them by selling Game…
A threat actor in operation for nearly a decade has targeted government, telecommunication, and education organizations in Australia and Southeast Asia, according to a new report from SentinelOne — in some cases using exploits hidden in pornographic documents…
Several weapon marketplaces on the dark web have listed military-grade firearms allegedly coming from Western countries that sent them to support the Ukrainian army in its fight against the Russian invaders. Supposedly, these weapons were somehow put aside from the…
Threat actors have already started exploiting a severe vulnerability that Owl Labs addressed in its video conferencing devices earlier this week. Tracked as CVE-2022-31460 (CVSS score of 7.4), the security bug can be exploited to turn a vulnerable device into a rogue access point to…