Daily Cyber Brief
Moldova plans to step up cyber defenses, the Robin Banks PhaaS targets the financial sector, and cybercriminals are using messaging apps for nefarious purposes...
Cybersecurity
North Korea is likely to face stronger sanctions including measures aimed at curbing its cyberattack capabilities if it conducts a nuclear test that it has been preparing, South Korea's foreign minister said on Wednesday. Park Jin, who took office in May as new President…
Moldova is working to step up cyber defenses to protect its critical infrastructure from rising threats amid the war in neighboring Ukraine. Officials in the country of roughly three million people are planning overhauls to create basic cybersecurity rules and institutions…
A new phishing as a service (PhaaS) platform named 'Robin Banks' has been launched, offering ready-made phishing kits targeting the customers of well-known banks and online services. The targeted entities include Citibank, Bank of America, Capital One, Wells Fargo…
American investigative reporter Emma Best knows how arduous it is to ask for information from government agencies. She made more than 5,000 such requests during her career at MuckRock, a non-profit news site that publishes original government documents and…
As many as 30 malicious Android apps with cumulative downloads of nearly 10 million have been found on the Google Play Store distributing adware. "All of them were built into various programs, including image-editing software, virtual keyboards, system tools and utilities…
A cyber-weapons broker dubbed Knotweed has been outed, with Microsoft flagging it as being behind numerous spyware attacks on law firms, banks, and strategic consultancies in countries around the world. To boot, Knotweed has made a habit of incorporating rafts of Windows…
Built-in Telegram and Discord services are fertile ground for storing stolen data, hosting malware and using bots for nefarious purposes. Cybercriminals are tapping the built-in services of popular messaging apps like Telegram and Discord as ready-made platforms to…
The Spanish police have announced the arrest of two hackers believed to be responsible for cyberattacks on the country's radioactivity alert network (RAR), which took place between March and June 2021. The two arrested individuals are former workers of a company…
Arts organizations around the world are expressing concern about the wide-ranging impact of a ransomware attack on WordFly, a tech company providing digital marketing for dozens of the most popular cultural organizations in several countries. The company handles email…
Threat actors are increasingly abusing Internet Information Services (IIS) extensions to backdoor servers as a means of establishing a "durable persistence mechanism." That's according to a new warning from the Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team, which said…