Disruptive malware attacks on Ukrainian organizations (posing as ransomware attacks) are very likely part of Russia’s wider effort to undermine Ukraine’s sovereignty, according to analysts. [...]

A well-crafted but fake government procurement portal offers the opportunity to submit a bid for lucrative government projects -- but harvests credentials instead. [...]

Praise be & pass the recipe for the software soup: There's too much scrambling to untangle vulnerabilities and dependencies, say a security experts roundtable. [...]

At least 15 websites belonging to various Ukrainian public institutions were compromised, defaced, and subsequently taken offline. [...]

As Moscow moves troops and threatens military action, about 70 Ukrainian government sites were hit. “Be afraid” was scrawled on the Foreign Ministry site. [...]

The country's FSB said that it raided gang hideouts; seized currency, cars and personnel; and neutralized REvil's infrastructure. [...]

US Cyber Command linked the group to Iranian intelligence and detailed its multi-pronged, increasingly sophisticated suite of malware tools. [...]

Cyberattacks increased 50 percent YoY in 2021 and peaked in December due to a frenzy of Log4j exploits, researchers found. [...]

End of life, end of support, pandemic-induced shipping delays and remote work, scanning failures: It’s a recipe for a patching nightmare, federal cyberserurity CTO Matt Keller says. [...]

Here’s what cybersecurity watchers want infosec pros to know heading into 2022. [...]

Casey Ellis, CTO at Bugcrowd, outlines how international relations have deteriorated into a new sort of Cold War, with espionage playing out in the cyber-domain. [...]

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. [...]

Analysts warn that the attack group, now known as 'Earth Centaur,' is honing its attacks to go after transportation and government agencies. [...]

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. [...]

The focused attacks aimed at cyberespionage and lateral movement appear to hint at further ambitions by the group, including supply-chain threats. [...]

Kronos, the workforce-management provider, said a weeks-long outage of its cloud services is in the offing, just in time to hamstring end-of-year HR activities like bonuses and vacation tracking. [...]

The Log4Shell vulnerability critically threatens anybody using the popular open-source Apache Struts framework and could lead to a “Mini internet meltdown soonish.” [...]

U.S. and Canada charge Ottawa man for ransomware attacks, signaling that North America is no cybercriminal haven. [...]

Fujitsu says the attackers behind the May data breach used a vulnerability in the company's ProjectWEB information-sharing tool to steal accounts from legitimate users and access proprietary data belonging to multiple Japanese government agencies. [...]

The Tor Project's main website, torproject.org, is actively blocked by Russia's largest internet service providers, and sources from the country claim that the government is getting ready to conduct an extensive block of the project. [...]

U.S. military acknowledges targeting cybercriminals who launch attacks on U.S. companies. [...]

It's unknown who's behind the cyberattacks against at least nine employees' iPhones, who are all involved in Ugandan diplomacy. [...]

Kaspersky researchers suspect that the cyberattackers may be a subgroup of the politically motivated, Palestine-focused Gaza Cybergang. [...]

The insurer won’t pay for 'acts of cyber-war' or nation-state retaliation attacks. [...]

A UK Department for Transport (DfT) website was caught serving porn earlier today. The particular DfT subdomain behind the mishap, on most days, provides vital DfT statistics for the public and the department's business plan. [...]