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A jury in California today reached a guilty verdict in the trial of Matthew Gatrel, a St. Charles, Ill. man charged in 2018 with operating two online services that allowed paying customers to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Internet users and websites. Gatrel’s conviction comes roughly two weeks after his co-conspirator pleaded guilty…
CISA Provides Bad Practices List To Reinforce Cyber Infrastructure
The federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a few cybersecurity “bad practices” this week to assist in decreasing the volume of knowable and preventable cyber mistakes. These bad practices are aimed at educating critical infrastructure owners and operators, as well as the defense industry and the organizations that support the supply chain for…
Hundreds of Businesses, From Sweden to U.S., Affected by Cyberattack
Hundreds of businesses around the world, including one of Sweden’s largest grocery chains, grappled on Saturday with potential cybersecurity vulnerabilities after a software provider that provides services to more than 40,000 organizations, Kaseya, said it had been the victim of a “sophisticated cyberattack.” Security researchers said the attack may have been carried out by REvil,…
Kaseya Fixes Remaining VSA Vulnerabilities
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ShadowPad Malware is Becoming a Favorite Choice of Chinese Espionage Groups
ShadowPad, an infamous Windows backdoor that allows attackers to download further malicious modules or steal data, has been put to use by five different Chinese threat clusters since 2017. “The adoption of ShadowPad significantly reduces the costs of development and maintenance for threat actors,” SentinelOne researchers Yi-Jhen Hsieh and Joey Chen said in a detailed…

