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Details Emerge on How Gaming Giant EA Was Hacked

cyware Jun 12, 2021 Incident Response, Learnings

The group stole the source code for FIFA 21 and related tools that match players with other players, as well as the source code for the Frostbite engine that powers games like Battlefield and other internal game development tools.

Ransomware attack hit Teamsters in 2019 — but they refused to pay

cyware Jun 12, 2021 Incident Response, Learnings

Unlike many of the companies hit by high-profile ransomware attacks in recent months, the union declined to pay, despite the FBI's advice to do so, three sources familiar with the previously unreported cyberattack told NBC News.

Italy Sets Up Cybersecurity Agency After Russia Warnings

cyware Jun 12, 2021 Geopolitical, Terrorism

Italy has created a national cybersecurity agency following warnings by Prime Minister Mario Draghi that Europe needed to protect itself from Russian "interference." The new agency was approved in a cabinet meeting this week.

GitHub Discloses Details of Easy-to-Exploit Linux Vulnerability

cyware Jun 12, 2021 Malware and Vulnerabilities

The vulnerability, classified as high severity and tracked as CVE-2021-3560, impacts polkit, an authorization service that is present by default in many Linux distributions.

Cyberpunk 2077 Hacked Data Circulating Online

cyware Jun 12, 2021 Breaches and Incidents

CD Projekt Red has confirmed that employee and game-related data appears to be floating around the cyber-underground, four months after a hack on the Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077 developer.

Unknown Attacker Chains Chrome and Windows Zero-Days

cyware Jun 12, 2021 Threat Intel & Info Sharing

Security researchers warn of a series of highly targeted attacks, by a group dubbed as “PuzzleMaker”, designed to compromise victim networks via Google Chrome and Microsoft Windows zero-day exploits.

Motives for ransomware attack against nuclear contractor remain unclear

cyware Jun 12, 2021 Incident Response, Learnings

The attack on the New Mexico-based government contractor Sol Oriens by the REvil ransomware group raised concerns in the national security community, because of the company’s work around nuclear weapons and energy for the Department of Energy.

Avaddon ransomware shuts down and releases decryption keys

cyware Jun 12, 2021 Malware and Vulnerabilities

Avaddon launched its operation in June 2020 through a phishing campaign. Over time, Avaddon has grown into one of the larger ransomware operations, with the FBI and Australian law enforcement recently releasing advisories related to the group.

Monumental Supply-Chain Attack on Airlines Traced to State Actor

cyware Jun 12, 2021 Incident Response, Learnings

A monster cyberattack on SITA, a global IT provider for 90 percent of the world’s airline industry, is slowly unfurling to reveal the largest supply-chain attack on the airline industry in history.

UK tells UN that nation-states should retaliate against cyber badness with no warning

cyware Jun 12, 2021 Geopolitical, Terrorism

A statement made by UK diplomats to the UN's Group of Governmental Experts on Advancing Responsible State Behaviour in the Context of International Security (UN GGE) called for international law to permit retaliation for cyberattacks with no notice.

Fresh Crypto Attacks Targeting Kubernetes Clusters

cyware Jun 12, 2021 Breaches and Incidents

Microsoft is warning against a new adversarial campaign that attempts to hijack Azure’s machine learning infrastructure to deploy cryptomining workloads. The recent attacks show how cybercriminals are increasingly targeting Kubernetes clusters and their surrounding ecosystem.

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Details Emerge on How Gaming Giant EA Was Hacked

Ransomware attack hit Teamsters in 2019 — but they refused to pay

Italy Sets Up Cybersecurity Agency After Russia Warnings

GitHub Discloses Details of Easy-to-Exploit Linux Vulnerability

Cyberpunk 2077 Hacked Data Circulating Online

Unknown Attacker Chains Chrome and Windows Zero-Days

Motives for ransomware attack against nuclear contractor remain unclear

Avaddon ransomware shuts down and releases decryption keys

Monumental Supply-Chain Attack on Airlines Traced to State Actor

UK tells UN that nation-states should retaliate against cyber badness with no warning

Fresh Crypto Attacks Targeting Kubernetes Clusters

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