Meta Takes Down Russian “Smash-and-Grab” Disinformation Campaign
Chinese network targeting US mid-terms also closed down
Cyber NewsMost Attackers Need Less Than 10 Hours to Find Weaknesses
Vulnerable configurations, software flaws, and exposed Web services allow hackers to find exploitable weaknesses in companies’ perimeters in just hours, not days.
Cyber NewsStories from the SOC – C2 over port 22
Stories from the SOC is a blog series that describes recent real-world security incident investigations conducted and reported by the AT&T SOC analyst team for AT&T Managed Extended Detection and Response customers. Executive summary The Mirai botnet is infamous for the impact and the everlasting effect it has had on the world. Since the inception […]
Cyber NewsICO Reprimands UK Organizations for GDPR Failings
Subject Access Requests experiencing significant delays
Cyber NewsHow cybercriminals use public online and offline data to target employees
We post our daily lives to social media and think nothing of making key details about our lives public. We need to reconsider what we share online and how attackers can use this information to target businesses. Your firm’s security may be one text message away from a breach. How and why attackers target new […]
Cyber NewsHackers Using PowerPoint Mouseover Trick to Infect System with Malware
The Russian state-sponsored threat actor known as APT28 has been found leveraging a new code execution method that makes use of mouse movement in decoy Microsoft PowerPoint documents to deploy malware. The technique “is designed to be triggered when the user starts the presentation mode and moves the mouse,” cybersecurity firm Cluster25 said in a technical report. “The code […]
Cyber NewsFacebook Shuts Down Covert Political ‘Influence Operations’ from Russia and China
Meta Platforms on Tuesday disclosed it took steps to dismantle two covert influence operations originating from China and Russia for engaging in coordinated inauthentic behavior (CIB) so as to manipulate public debate. While the Chinese operation sets its sights on the U.S. and the Czech Republic, the Russian network primarily targeted Germany, France, Italy, Ukraine […]
Cyber NewsDefend your organization from ransomware attacks with Cisco Secure Endpoint
Ransomware is one of the most dangerous threats organizations face today, so it’s no wonder that Cisco Talos Incident Response named it the top threat of the year in 2021. These attacks continue to grow and become more advanced, with ransomware attacks (see Figure 1 below).1 Stopping ransomware attacks isn’t easy either, as adversaries continue […]
Cyber NewsCold War Bugging of Soviet Facilities
Found documents in Poland detail US spying operations against the former Soviet Union. The file details a number of bugs found at Soviet diplomatic facilities in Washington, D.C., New York, and San Francisco, as well as in a Russian government-owned vacation compound, apartments used by Russia personnel, and even Russian diplomats’ cars. And the bugs […]
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