Ghostwriter is one of 3 campaigns using war-themed attacks, with cyber-fire coming in from government-backed actors in China, Iran, North Korea & Russia.
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Belarusian ‘Ghostwriter’ Actor Picks Up BitB for Ukraine-Related Attacks
Ghostwriter is one of 3 campaigns using war-themed attacks, with cyber-fire coming in from government-backed actors in China, Iran, North Korea & Russia.
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Ukrainian DDoS Attacks Should Put US on Notice–Researchers
On Tuesday, institutions central to Ukraine’s military and economy were hit with denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Impact was limited, but the ramifications are not.
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Massive LinkedIn Phishing, Bot Attacks Feed on the Job-Hungry
The phishing attacks are spoofing LinkedIn to target ‘Great Resignation’ job hunters, who are also being preyed on by huge data-scraping bot attacks.
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New MacOS Malware ‘DazzleSpy’ Used in Watering-Hole Attacks
A pro-democracy Hong Kong site was used to launch watering-hole attacks that planted a new macOS backdoor that researchers dubbed DazzleSpy.
Microsoft Sees Log4j Attacks Exploiting SolarWinds Serv-U Bug
SolarWinds has fixed a Serv-U bug that threat actors were exploiting to unleash Log4j attacks on networks’ internal devices.
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Beijing Olympics App Flaws Allow Man-in-the-Middle Attacks
Attackers can access audio and files uploaded to the MY2022 mobile app required for use by all winter games attendees – including personal health details.
New York AG Warns 17 Firms of Credential Attacks
Sponsored: Password security is highlighted in attorney general warning to New York state businesses.
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2021 records ‘all-time peak’ in weekly cyber attacks
Log4j vulnerabilities resulted in an increased number of attacks in Q4 2021
Cyber-Spike: Orgs Suffer 925 Attacks per Week, an All-Time High
Cyberattacks increased 50 percent YoY in 2021 and peaked in December due to a frenzy of Log4j exploits, researchers found.