Are unsolicited smartwatches the new USB thumb drive? The U.S. Army warns that service members are being sent free wearables preloaded with malware designed to steal data from mobile devices as well as intercept voice communications and hijack cameras.
Every week, ISMG rounds up cybersecurity incidents around the world. This week, attackers hit European Investment Bank; a California pension fund suffered a cyberattack related to MOVEit; UPS Canada disclosed a data breach; and a new Android malware campaign spread GravityRAT spyware.
British law firms are at increased risk of being hacked due to a growing number of cybercrime-as-a-service groups, the country's top cybersecurity agency warned in a new advisory. Lawyer are under attack from cybercriminals, nation-state groups and ransomware gangs.
Researchers at AhnLab Security Emergency Response Center observed APT37 target South Korean individuals with spear-phishing emails to inject wiretapping malware. The state-backed cybercrime group primarily employs spear-phishing to compromise the devices of victims.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer unveiled a framework for artificial intelligence development focused on security, accountability, explainability and minimizing foreign interference. He urged lawmakers to enact guardrails to prevent AI misuse by autocratic governments and rogue domestic actors.
Suspected Chinese APT groups exploited a 17-year-old Microsoft Office vulnerability in May to launch malware attacks against foreign government officials who attended a G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan. Threat actors targeted officials from France, the United Kingdom, India, Singapore and Australia.
The U.S. Department of Justice unveiled a new team - the National Security Cyber Section - to disrupt nation-state threat actors and prosecute them at the "earliest stages." NatSec Cyber will work closely with the DOJ's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section.
Cybersecurity defenders in Ukraine revealed multiple Russian spear-phishing campaigns including an effort by Kremlin military intelligence to penetrate open-source email servers used by government agencies. Russia is intensifying phishing campaigns against Ukraine.
A Russian government-linked threat group is using USB drives to spread a custom backdoor in a possible bid to reach air-gapped machines, said security researchers. The Security Service of Ukraine has identified the group, which it tracks as Armageddon, as a unit of the Russian FSB.
The potential for cybercriminals to reverse-engineer generative AI tools, the rise of geopolitical threats and increased cloud complexity are among the top new threats facing security teams in 2023, according to Forrester's Top Cybersecurity Threats In 2023 report.
Chinese hackers in a state-run operation compromised hundreds of organizations through a zero-day vulnerability in a popular email security appliance, warns cyber threat intelligence firm Mandiant. Hackers used a zero-day vulnerability in Barracuda Networks Email Security Gateway appliances.
Microsoft says a newly identified Russian military intelligence threat actor uses noisily destructive payloads in a bid to intimidate mostly Ukrainian targets. The computing giant dubs the threat actor Cadet Blizzard and says it carried out the January 2022 WhisperGate attacks against Ukraine.
Hacking group Asylum Ambuscade, which security researchers say aligns with Belarusian government interests, has an "unusual" twist: It appears to be mixing cybercrime - focused on banking and cryptocurrency customers - with cyberespionage, including attacks targeting Ukraine.
Suspected nation-state hackers are using malware that researchers say straddles the line between off-the-shelf and advanced tactics in order to target the U.S. aerospace industry. Researchers from Adlumin in May found the malware on a defense contractor's network.
In this episode of "Cybersecurity Insights," Lonnie Price of Peraton discusses the importance of partnerships between the public and private sectors to help Ukrainians with the war effort. He also shares how we can become better educated and more efficient as cyber defenders.
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