Daily Cyber Brief
DDoS attack takes Russia's second-largest bank offline, Rackspace confirms ransomware attack over the weekend, and Chinese hackers target Middle-East Telecom companies...
Cybersecurity
Russia's second-largest financial institution VTB Bank says it is facing the worse cyberattack in its history after its website and mobile apps were taken offline due to an ongoing DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack. "At present, the VTB technological infrastructure is…
Rackspace has admitted a ransomware infection was to blame for the days-long email outage that disrupted services for customers. The security snafu took down some of Rackspace's hosted Microsoft Exchange services on Friday afternoon. In its most recent update, posted at…
A malicious campaign targeting the Middle East is likely linked to BackdoorDiplomacy, an advanced persistent threat (APT) group with ties to China. The espionage activity, directed against a telecom company in the region, is said to have commenced on August 19, 2021…
Amnesty International's Canadian branch has disclosed a security breach detected in early October and linked to a threat group likely sponsored by China. The international human rights non-governmental organization (NGO) says it first detected the breach on October 5…
In the run-up to Christmas, one of the busiest times for online shopping and e-commerce, we are likely to see a spike in fraudulent domain name registrations. Domain provider CSC analyzed threatening domains targeting 10 of the biggest brands in the world in a report…
The software industry is making headway against a group of pernicious vulnerabilities that are responsible for the vast majority of critical, remotely exploitable, and in-the-wild attacks, software-security experts said this week. The class of vulnerabilities — so-called memory…
With a beleaguered and retreating Russian military, analysts warn that winter's chill will be accompanied by a new barrage of cyberattacks against Ukraine's infrastructure, supply chains, partners, and political support across Europe and beyond. Microsoft's Digital Threat…
Four men suspected of hacking into US networks to steal employee data for identity theft and the filing of fraudulent US tax returns have been arrested in London, UK, and Malmo, Sweden, at the request of the U.S. law enforcement authorities. The suspects identified in…
Microsoft says that cryptocurrency investment companies have been targeted by a threat group it tracks as DEV-0139 via Telegram groups used to communicate with the firms' VIP customers. "Microsoft recently investigated an attack where the threat actor, tracked as DEV…
The city of Antwerp, Belgium, is working to restore its digital services that were disrupted last night by a cyberattack on its digital provider. The disruption has affected services used by citizens, schools, daycare centers, and the police, which have been working intermittently…