Cyber Defense Advisors

Cyber Threat Trends

Russian Hackers Use Western Networks to Attack Ukraine

Lupovis used decoys to find out more about threat actors

Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends

Prolific Chinese Hackers Stole US COVID funds

Secret Service says discovery may be the tip of the iceberg

Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends

Russian courts attacked by CryWiper malware that poses as ransomware

Russian courts and government agencies have been hit by a previously-undocumented strain of data-wiping malware known as CryWiper. It poses as ransomware, but isn’t interested in making money out of its victims… Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends

Hacking cars remotely with just their VIN

Your car’s mobile app might have allowed hackers to remotely unlock your vehicle, turn on or off its engine, and even honk its horn. Those are the findings of a researcher who explored vulnerabilities that could affect Hyundai, Genesis, Nissan, Infiniti, Honda, and Acura vehicles, amongst others. Read more in my article on the Hot […]

Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends
  • by
  • December 6, 2022

Open Source Ransomware Toolkit Cryptonite Turns Into Accidental Wiper Malware

A version of an open source ransomware toolkit called Cryptonite has been observed in the wild with wiper capabilities due to its “weak architecture and programming.” Cryptonite, unlike other ransomware strains, is not available for sale on the cybercriminal underground, and was instead offered for free by an actor named CYBERDEVILZ until recently through a GitHub repository. […]

Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends
  • by
  • December 5, 2022

Palo Alto Networks looks to shore up healthcare IoT security

Palo Alto Networks today rolled out a new Medical IoT Security offering, designed to  provide improved visibility, automated monitoring and more for hitherto vulnerable healthcare IoT frameworks, thanks to machine learning and adherence to zero trust principles. Medical device security is a serious problem for most organizations in healthcare, with a long string of reported […]

Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends
  • by
  • December 5, 2022

Judge Orders U.S. Lawyer in Russian Botnet Case to Pay Google

In December 2021, Google filed a civil lawsuit against two Russian men thought to be responsible for operating Glupteba, one of the Internet’s largest and oldest botnets. The defendants, who initially pursued a strategy of counter suing Google for tortious interference in their sprawling cybercrime business, later brazenly offered to dismantle the botnet in exchange […]

Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends
  • by
  • December 5, 2022

Enhanced Protection – The strongest level of Safe Browsing protection Google Chrome has to offer

Posted by Benjamin Ackerman (Chrome Security and Jonathan Li (Safe Browsing) As a follow-up to a previous blog post about How Hash-Based Safe Browsing Works in Google Chrome, we wanted to provide more details about Safe Browsing’s Enhanced Protection mode in Chrome. Specifically, how it came about, the protections that are offered and what it […]

Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends
  • by
  • December 5, 2022

Ping of death! FreeBSD fixes crashtastic bug in network tool

It’s a venerable program, and this version had a venerable bug in it.

Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends