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Senate confirms Chris Inglis as Biden's top cyber adviser

cyware Jun 19, 2021 Govt., Critical Infrastructure

Inglis’ new White House office was one of several policy reforms recommended by the congressional chartered Cyberspace Solarium Commission and incorporated into the fiscal 2021 defense policy bill.

This Agency’s Computers Hold Secrets. Hackers Got In With One Password.

cyware Jun 19, 2021 Breaches and Incidents

New York City’s Law Department holds some of the city’s most closely guarded secrets. But all it took for a hacker to infiltrate the 1,000-lawyer agency’s network early this month was one worker’s pilfered email password

Matanbuchus Loader: A New Malware-as-a-Service

cyware Jun 19, 2021 Malware and Vulnerabilities

Researchers identified a threat actor targeting multiple organizations including large universities and high schools in the U.S., along with high-tech organizations in Belgium.

Conti Ransomware Gang: An Overview

cyware Jun 19, 2021 Malware and Vulnerabilities

The Conti ransomware group has spent more than a year attacking organizations where IT outages can have life-threatening consequences such as hospitals, 911 dispatch carriers, emergency medical services, and law enforcement agencies.

Cyber attack on Polish officials came from Russia, Kaczynski says

cyware Jun 19, 2021 Geopolitical, Terrorism

Top Polish government officials have been hit by a far-reaching cyber attack conducted from Russian territory, Poland's de facto leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski said on Friday in his first official statement on an email hacking incident this month.

Vigilante malware stops victims from visiting piracy websites

cyware Jun 19, 2021 Malware and Vulnerabilities

Sophos researchers uncovered a malware campaign that aims at blocking infected users’ from visiting a large number of websites dedicated to software piracy by modifying the HOSTS file on the infected system.

Expert found multiple flaws in Cisco Small Business 220 series

cyware Jun 19, 2021 Malware and Vulnerabilities

The vulnerabilities impact devices running firmware versions prior 1.2.0.6 and which have the web-based management interface enabled. The expert pointed out that the interface is enabled by default.

A deep dive into the operations of the LockBit ransomware group

cyware Jun 19, 2021 Malware and Vulnerabilities

Forensic investigations of machines attacked by LockBit affiliates show that threat groups will often first try to identify "mission-critical" systems including NAS devices, backup servers, and domain controllers.

North Korea Exploited VPN Flaw to Hack South's Nuclear Research Institute

thehackernews Jun 19, 2021 Feed

South Korea's state-run Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) on Friday disclosed that its internal network was infiltrated by suspected attackers operating out of its northern counterpart. The intrusion is said to have taken place on May 14 through a vulnerability in an unnamed virtual private network (VPN) vendor and involved a total of 13 IP addresses, one of which — "27.102.114[.]89

Cyber espionage by Chinese hackers in neighbouring nations is on the rise

thehackernews Jun 19, 2021 Feed

A string of cyber espionage campaigns dating all the way back to 2014 and focused on gathering military intelligence from neighbouring countries have been linked to a Chinese military-intelligence apparatus. In a wide-ranging report published by Massachusetts-headquartered Recorded Future this week, the cybersecurity firm's Insikt Group said it identified ties between a group it tracks as "

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