(Want to get this newsletter in your inbox? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest. 1. Presidents Biden and Vladimir Putin offered broad claims of good will after their first in-person summit, but it was clear that divisions remain. Putin denied Russian responsibility for a surge in cyberattacks against U.S. institutions and rebuffed U.S….
Cybercrime , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Russian President Says He’s Open to Cybercriminal Extraditions – If They Are Mutual Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • June 15, 2021 Russian President Vladimir Putin Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday indicated he would consider handing over Russian cybercriminals to the United States…
Business Email Compromise (BEC) , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team Describes Flow of Attack Rashmi Ramesh • June 16, 2021 (Image: Shutterstock) The Microsoft 365 Defender research team says it has “disrupted a large-scale BEC infrastructure hosted in multiple web services.” See Also: Live Webinar:…
Here’s what you need to know: President Vladimir Putin of Russia at a news conference after his summit with President Biden in Geneva on Wednesday.Credit…Pool photo by Denis Balibouse President Biden and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia emerged from their first in-person summit Wednesday and offered broad claims of good will, but it was…
Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management PDF Documents Stuffed With SEO Keywords Lead to Malware Attacks Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • June 16, 2021 SEO poisoning attacks use thousands of PDFs stuffed with links to malware. (Image: Pixabay) SolarMarker backdoor malware operators are using “SEO poisoning” techniques to deploy the…
The Biden-Putin Geneva summit was prompted by a phone call when the US president called the Russian leader telling him to “back off” over Ukraine, the former acting US ambassador to Ukraine, William Taylor, has said. He told BBC World News that President Biden had told President Putin he would face sanctions over his actions,…
President Joe Biden finally sits down with Vladimir Putin for their first presidential summit today – meeting in a locked-down Geneva as both men take each other’s measure and assess whether there is a way to put the relationship between the U.S. and Russia on a more stable course. The city, which warmly welcomed the…
US President Joe Biden and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin have been holding talks for the first time since Biden became leader. One of the issues scheduled to be discussed at the summit was nuclear arms control. Speaking as the summit was underway, former Nato deputy secretary general, Rose Gottemoeller, told BBC World News that despite…
Sol Oriens, an Albuquerque-based nuclear weapons contractor, was reportedly hit by a REvil ransomware attack earlier this year. Sol Oriens is the subcontractor for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) that works on nuclear weapons with the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). The company told CNBC that it became aware of the “cybersecurity incident” in…
Cybercrime , Cybercrime as-a-service , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Leading Industrial Nations Call on Moscow to Crack Down on Domestic Cybercriminals Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • June 15, 2021 Count of victims of Avaddon, which has targeted businesses and governments across the globe – with Russia remaining a notable exception (Source: Advanced Intelligence)…
