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- Cloud Identity Startup Permiso Launches With $10M Seedby Dark Reading Staff, Dark Reading on January 18, 2022 at 11:18 pm
Permiso’s co-founders say the No. 1 problem in the cloud is identity, and their platform is designed to tackle the notoriously difficult challenge of monitoring the activity of those identities.
- Microsoft Details Recent Damaging Malware Attacks on Ukrainian Organizationsby Jai Vijayan, Contributing Writer on January 18, 2022 at 11:08 pm
“WhisperGate” malware was used to overwrite Master Boot Record and other files to render systems inoperable at several organizations in Ukraine, Microsoft says.
- Researchers Explore Hacking VirusTotal to Find Stolen Credentialsby Kelly Sheridan, Senior Editor on January 18, 2022 at 10:05 pm
VirusTotal can be used to collect large amounts of credentials without infecting an organization or buying them online, researchers found.
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- ‘Be Afraid:’ Massive Cyberattack Downs Ukrainian Gov’t Sitesby Lisa Vaas on January 14, 2022 at 4:06 pm
As Moscow moves troops and threatens military action, about 70 Ukrainian government sites were hit. “Be afraid” was scrawled on the Foreign Ministry site.
- North Korean APTs Stole ~$400M in Crypto in 2021by Becky Bracken on January 13, 2022 at 9:03 pm
Meanwhile, EtherumMax got sued over an alleged pump-and-dump scam after using celebs like Floyd Mayweather Jr. & Kim Kardashian to promote EMAX Tokens.
- US Military Ties Prolific MuddyWater Cyberespionage APT to Iranby Lisa Vaas on January 13, 2022 at 5:35 pm
US Cyber Command linked the group to Iranian intelligence and detailed its multi-pronged, increasingly sophisticated suite of malware tools.
- IOTW: VMware Horizon targeted by attackers exploiting Log4jby Beth Maundrill on January 14, 2022 at 11:18 am
A new ransomware group appears to be taking advantage of Log4j vulnerability with malicious activity detected by UK’s NHS
- 2021 records ‘all-time peak’ in weekly cyber attacksby Beth Maundrill on January 12, 2022 at 5:22 pm
Log4j vulnerabilities resulted in an increased number of attacks in Q4 2021
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- AlphV/BlackCat ransomware gang published data stolen from fashion giant Monclerby Pierluigi Paganini on January 18, 2022 at 9:58 pm
Luxury fashion giant Moncler confirmed a data breach after a ransomware attack carried out by the AlphV/BlackCat. Moncler confirmed a data […]
- Financially motivated Earth Lusca threat actors targets organizations worldwideby Pierluigi Paganini on January 18, 2022 at 7:05 pm
A sophisticated threat actor, tracked as Earth Lusca, is targeting government and private organizations worldwide as for financial purposes. […]