Belarusian ‘Ghostwriter’ Actor Picks Up BitB for Ukraine-Related Attacks
Ghostwriter is one of 3 campaigns using war-themed attacks, with cyber-fire coming in from government-backed actors in China, Iran, North Korea & Russia.
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Automaker Cybersecurity Lagging Behind Tech Adoption, Experts Warn
A bug in Honda is indicative of the sprawling car-attack surface that could give cyberattackers easy access to victims, as global use of ‘smart car tech’ and EVs surges.
Read MoreA Blockchain Primer and a Bored Ape Headscratcher – Podcast
Mystified? Now’s the time to learn about cryptocurrency-associated risks: Listen to KnowBe4’s Dr. Lydia Kostopoulos explain blockchain, NFTs and how to stay safe.
Read MoreLapsus$ ‘Back from Vacation’
Lapsus$ added IT giant Globant plus 70GB of leaked data – including admin credentials for scads of customers’ DevOps platforms – to its hit list.
Read MoreOkta Says It Goofed in Handling the Lapsus$ Attack
“We made a mistake,” Okta said, owning up to its responsibility for security incidents that hit its service providers and potentially its own customers.
Read MoreDOJ Indicts Russian Gov’t Employees Over Targeting Power Sector
The supply-chain attack on the U.S. energy sector targeted thousands of computers at hundreds of organizations, including at least one nuclear power plant.
Read MoreHubSpot Data Breach Ripples Through Crytocurrency Industry
~30 crypto companies were affected, including BlockFi, Swan Bitcoin and NYDIG, providing an uncomfortable reminder about how much data CRM systems snarf up.
Read MoreMicrosoft: Lapsus$ Used Employee Account to Steal Source Code
The data-extortion gang got at Microsoft’s Azure DevOps server. Meanwhile, fellow Lapsus$ victim and authentication firm Okta said 2.5 percent of customers were affected in its own Lapsus$ attack.
Read MoreLapsus$ Data Kidnappers Claim Snatches From Microsoft, Okta
Lapsus$ shared screenshots of internal Okta systems and 40Gb of purportedly stolen Microsoft data on Bing, Bing Maps and Cortana.
Read MoreSerpent Backdoor Slithers into Orgs Using Chocolatey Installer
An unusual attack using an open-source Python package installer called Chocolatey, steganography and Scheduled Tasks is stealthily delivering spyware to companies.
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