Daily Cyber Brief
"Eternity" MaaS spread via Telegram, white-hat hackers were unable to invade the Brazilian voting system, and the EU agrees to new cybersecurity legislation...
Cybersecurity
Italian police thwarted hacker attacks by pro-Russian groups during the May 10 semi-final and Saturday final of the Eurovision Song Contest in Turin, authorities said on Sunday. Ukraine's Kalush Orchestra won the contest with their entry "Stefania", riding a wave…
A ransomware group with an Iranian operational connection has been linked to a string of file-encrypting malware attacks targeting organizations in Israel, the U.S., Europe, and Australia. Cybersecurity firm Secureworks attributed the intrusions to a threat actor it…
A recent security update for a Windows NTLM Relay Attack has been confirmed to be a previously unfixed vector for the PetitPotam attack. During the May 2022 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released a security update for an actively exploited NTLM Relay Attack labeled…
An account promoting the project—which offers a range of threat activity from info-stealing to crypto-mining to ransomware as individual modules—has more than 500 subscribers. Cybercriminals are promoting a new, modular malware-as-a-service offering that allows…
Enterprise data lakes are filling up as organizations increasingly embrace artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning — but unfortunately, these are vulnerable to exploitation via the Java Log4Shell vulnerability, researchers have found…
A Ukrainian man has been handed a four-year jail term for stealing thousands of server logins and putting them up for sale on the dark web. Glib Oleksandr Ivanov-Tolpintsev, 28, from Chernivtsi, was arrested in October 2020 by Polish police and subsequently extradited to the…
More than 20 would-be hackers gathered in the Brazilian electoral authority’s headquarters in the capital this week. Their mission: infiltrate the nation’s voting system ahead of a hotly anticipated race in October. Their 3-day battery of attempted assaults ended Friday and…
SonicWall has published an advisory warning of a trio of security flaws in its Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 appliances, including a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability. The weaknesses in question impact SMA 6200, 6210, 7200, 7210, 8000v running firmware…
Online crypto scams and ponzi schemes leveraging social media platforms are hardly anything new. BleepingComputer has previously reported on crypto thieves abusing Instagram for running 'investment' scams that people could and have fallen for. But, this gruesome case of…
The European Union (EU) has reached political agreement on new legislation that will impose common cybersecurity standards on critical industry organizations. The new directive will replace the EU’s existing rules on the security of network and information systems…