Payback: ‘ShinyHunters’ Clocks Google via Salesforce Summary The ShinyHunters-linked group tracked as UNC6040 used sophisticated vishing and social engineering to compromise Google via its Salesforce instance. Google had earlier published…
Utilities, Factories at Risk From Encryption Holes in Industrial Protocol Summary At DEF CON 33 researcher Tom Tervoort revealed multiple weaknesses in OPC UA, the open-source industrial communications protocol. Although…
Silver Fox APT Blurs the Line Between Espionage & Cybercrime Summary A Chinese threat actor known as Silver Fox is conducting attacks that mix traditional state-style espionage with opportunistic, financially…
Air France, KLM Alert Authorities of Data Breach Summary News brief: Air France and KLM disclosed that threat actors breached a customer service platform and exfiltrated personal data. The airlines…
BlackSuit Ransomware Takes an Infrastructure Hit From Law Enforcement Summary US and international law enforcement carried out a coordinated operation that disrupted parts of the BlackSuit (also known as Royal)…
REvil Actor Accuses Russia of Planning 2021 Kaseya Attack Summary A convicted REvil affiliate, Yaroslav Vasinskyi, has claimed the Russian government was instrumental in planning the July 2021 supply-chain ransomware…
Romance scam suspects extradited from Ghana, charged with more than $100 million in thefts Summary Three men were extradited from Ghana to the United States on 7 August after the…
Ransomware gang claims attack on St. Paul city government Summary The Interlock ransomware gang has added the city of St. Paul, Minnesota, to its leak site, claiming to have stolen…
UK retail giant M&S restores Click & Collect months after cyber attack, some services still down Summary Marks & Spencer has announced that its Click & Collect service is back…
Deepfake detectors are slowly coming of age, at a time of dire need Summary At DEF CON and related security events in Las Vegas experts warned that deepfakes — in…
