‘Be Afraid:’ Massive Cyberattack Downs Ukrainian Gov’t Sites
As Moscow moves troops and threatens military action, about 70 Ukrainian government sites were hit. “Be afraid” was scrawled on the Foreign Ministry site.
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North Korean APTs Stole ~$400M in Crypto in 2021
Meanwhile, EtherumMax got sued over an alleged pump-and-dump scam after using celebs like Floyd Mayweather Jr. & Kim Kardashian to promote EMAX Tokens.
Read MoreUS Military Ties Prolific MuddyWater Cyberespionage APT to Iran
US Cyber Command linked the group to Iranian intelligence and detailed its multi-pronged, increasingly sophisticated suite of malware tools.
Read MoreAdobe Cloud Abused to Steal Office 365, Gmail Credentials
Threat actors are creating accounts within the Adobe Cloud suite and sending images and PDFs that appear legitimate to target Office 365 and Gmail users, researchers from Avanan discovered.
Read MorePhishers Rip Off High-Profile EA Gamers
Electronic Arts blamed “human error” after attackers compromised customer support and took over and drained some of the top FIFA Ultimate Team player accounts.
Read MoreCyberattackers Hit Data of 80K Fertility Patients
Fertility Centers of Illinois’ security measures protected electronic medical records, but the attackers still got at extremely intimate data in admin files.
Read MoreActivision Files Unusual Lawsuit over Call of Duty Cheat Codes
Activision is suing to shut down the EngineOwning cheat-code site and hold individual developers and coders liable for damages.
Read MoreThe 5 Most-Wanted Threatpost Stories of 2021
A look back at what was hot with readers in this second year of the pandemic.
Read MoreFacebook Bans Spy-for-Hire Firms for Targeting 50K People
Meta, Facebook’s parent company, said that the seven banned actors run fake accounts on its platforms to deceive users and plant malware on targets’ phones.
Read More‘PseudoManuscrypt’ Mass Spyware Campaign Targets 35K Systems
It’s similar to Lazarus’s Manuscrypt malware, but the new spyware is splattering itself onto government organizations and ICS in a non-Lazarus-like, untargeted wave of attacks.
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