Conti Ransomware Attack Spurs State of Emergency in Costa Rica
The threat group has leaked data that it claims was stolen in the breach and is promising more government-targeted attacks. [...]
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Costa Rica declares national emergency after Conti ransomware attacks
The Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves has declared a national emergency following cyber attacks from Conti ransomware group. BleepingComputer also observed Conti published most of the 672 GB dump that appears to contain data belonging to the Costa Rican government agencies. [...]
White House: Prepare for cryptography-cracking quantum computers
President Joe Biden signed a national security memorandum (NSM) on Thursday asking government agencies to implement a set of measures that would mitigate risks posed by quantum computers to US national cyber security. [...]
VHD Ransomware Linked to North Korea’s Lazarus Group
Source code and Bitcoin transactions point to the malware, which emerged in March 2020, being the work of APT38, researchers at Trellix said. [...]
China-linked APT Caught Pilfering Treasure Trove of IP
A state-sponsored threat actor designed a house-of-cards style infection chain to exfiltrate massive troves of highly sensitive data. [...]
SEC ramps up fight on cryptocurrency fraud by doubling cyber unit
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced today that it will almost double the Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit to ramp up the fight against cryptocurrency fraud to protect investors from "cyber-related threats." [...]
India to require cybersecurity incident reporting within six hours
The Indian government has issued new directives requiring organizations to report cybersecurity incidents to CERT-IN within six hours, even if those incidents are port or vulnerability scans of computer systems. [...]
Cyberespionage APT Now Identified as Three Separate Actors
The threat group known as TA410 that wields the sophisticated FlowCloud RAT actually has three subgroups operating globally, each with their own toolsets and targets. [...]
Cyberattacks Rage in Ukraine, Support Military Operations
At least five APTs are believed involved with attacks tied ground campaigns and designed to damage Ukraine's digital infrastructure. [...]
Nation-state Hackers Target Journalists with Goldbackdoor Malware
A campaign by APT37 used a sophisticated malware to steal information about sources, which appears to be a successor to Bluelight. [...]
Canadian Centre for Cyber Security Assessment Summary report now available in AWS Artifact
French version At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we are committed to providing continued assurance to our customers through assessments, certifications, and attestations that support the adoption of AWS services. We are pleased to announce the availability of the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS) assessment summary report for AWS …
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. [...]
US national emergency extended due to elevated malicious cyber activity
US President Joe Biden today has extended the state of national emergency declared to deal with increasingly prevalent and severe malicious cyber threats to the United States national security, foreign policy, and economy. [...]
DOJ 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. [...]
US says Kaspersky poses unacceptable risk to national security
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) added Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky to its Covered List, saying it poses unacceptable risks to U.S. national security. [...]
Chinese APT Combines Fresh Hodur RAT with Complex Anti-Detection
Mustang Panda's already sophisticated cyberespionage campaign has matured even further with the introduction of a brand-new PlugX RAT variant. [...]
White House shares checklist to counter Russian cyberattacks
The White House is urging U.S. organizations to shore up their cybersecurity defenses after new intelligence suggests that Russia is preparing to conduct cyberattacks in the near future. [...]
Russia Lays Groundwork for Cyberattacks on US Infrastructure – White House
"Evolving intelligence" shows Russia amping up for cyber-war in response to Ukraine-related sanctions, the White House said -- but researchers warn that many orgs are not prepared. [...]
Agencies Warn on Satellite Hacks & GPS Jamming Affecting Airplanes, Critical Infrastructure
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has coincided with the jamming of airplane navigation systems and hacks on the SATCOM networks that empower critical infrastructure. [...]
Sandworm APT Hunts for ASUS Routers with Cyclops Blink Botnet
The Russian-speaking APT behind the NotPetya attacks and the Ukrainian power grid takedown could be setting up for additional sinister attacks, researchers said. [...]
Reporting Mandates to Clear Up Feds’ Hazy Look into Threat Landscape – Podcast
It’s about time, AttackIQ’s Jonathan Reiber said about 24H/72H report deadlines mandated in the new spending bill. As it is, visibility into adversary behavior has been muck. [...]
Cybercrooks’ Political In-Fighting Threatens the West
They’re choosing sides in the Russia-Ukraine war, beckoning previously shunned ransomware groups and thereby reinvigorating those groups' once-diminished power. [...]
Russia Issues Its Own TLS Certs
The country’s citizens are being blocked from the internet because foreign certificate authorities can't accept payments due to Ukraine-related sanctions, so it created its own CA. [...]
REvil ransomware member extradited to U.S. to stand trial for Kaseya attack
The U.S. Department of Justice announced that alleged REvil ransomware affiliate, Yaroslav Vasinskyi, was extradited to the United States last week to stand trial for the Kaseya cyberattack. [...]
SEC wants public companies to report breaches within four days
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed rule amendments to require publicly traded companies to report data breaches and other cybersecurity incidents within four days after they're determined as being a material incident (one that shareholders would likely consider important). [...]
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