The Republican National Committee (RNC) on Tuesday acknowledged that one of its contractors had been breached by hackers linked to Russia but said its data had not been accessed. Bloomberg News reported Tuesday that the Russian advanced persistent threat (APT) 29 group had breached the RNC’s computer systems last week by compromising Synnex, a third-party technology provider. …
President BidenJoe BidenJohn Kerry to visit Moscow officials to discuss ‘global climate ambition’ Civil rights leaders find meeting with WH ‘encouraging’ amidst voting rights battle Pentagon eyes places to send Afghan interpreters as Biden pledges evacuations by end of July MORE spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir PutinVladimir Vladimirovich PutinJohn Kerry to visit Moscow…
Kaseya has warned customers that an ongoing phishing campaign attempts to breach their networks by spamming emails bundling malicious attachments and embedded links posing as legitimate VSA security updates. “Spammers are using the news about the Kaseya Incident to send out fake email notifications that appear to be Kaseya updates. These are phishing emails that…
Business Continuity Management / Disaster Recovery , Cybercrime , Cybercrime as-a-service Ransomware-as-a-Service Operations Tap Expert Intrusion Specialists and Negotiators Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • July 9, 2021 Intrusion specialists’ advertisement on a cybercrime forum seeking a ransomware operation partner to collaborate via specified terms (Source: Kela) As ransomware attacks become more prolific, their…
Business Continuity Management / Disaster Recovery , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Governance & Risk Management 2 Maryland Towns Report Malware on Their Networks Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • July 8, 2021 REvil’s darknet announcement offering a decryptor for sale (Source: Trustwave) Two small Maryland towns are among the latest victims to come to…
Zalmay Khalizad, US Special Representative for Afghanistan speaks to the BBC as the Taliban capture a major border crossing between Afghanistan and Iran. He said that for Afghanistan’s war to end, there has to be a political agreement, and stressed that Taliban forces taking Kabul is an unlikely situation.
A Didi logo is seen at the headquarters of Didi Chuxing in Beijing on November 20, 2020. REUTERS/Florence Lo/File Photo/File Photo Chinese regulators said they will tighten control of domestic firms listed overseas. The move came after the Beijing-led cybersecurity probe against Didi, Reuters reported. On Sunday, China said Didi “has serious violations of laws…
Following the release of a U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (US-CERT) Coordination Center VulNote “for a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows Print spooler services” on June 30, 2021, Microsoft issued new guidance for the vulnerability (CVE-2021-34527) on July 1, updated guidance on July 2, 2021, and an emergency patch on July…
By Asheer Malhotra and Justin Thattil. Cisco Talos is tracking an increase in SideCopy’s activities targeting government personnel in India using themes and tactics similar to APT36 (aka Mythic Leopard and Transparent Tribe). SideCopy is an APT group that mimics the Sidewinder APT’s infection chains to deliver its own set of malware. We’ve discovered multiple…
But Jason Hsu, chief investment officer at Rayliant, an asset manager that invests in Chinese securities, said Chinese regulators typically have discussions with companies about regulatory actions they are about to take. “So one would assume that ahead of its IPO, Didi was aware of a possible formal investigation forthcoming,” Hsu said. Breakneck float The…
