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17 Mar, 2022

Pro-Ukraine ‘Protestware’ Pushes Antiwar Ads, Geo-Targeted Malware

Cybersecurity alex holden, GitHub, Hold Security, protestware, Russia's War on Ukraine, The Coming Storm

11 Mar, 2022

Report: Recent 10x Increase in Cyberattacks on Ukraine

Cybersecurity anycast, Bill Woodcock, DNS, John Todd, Latest Warnings, LINX, London Internet Exchange, MegaFon, Packet Clearing House, Quad9, Rostelecom, Russia's War on Ukraine, The Coming Storm

2 Mar, 2022

Conti Ransomware Group Diaries, Part II: The Office

Cybersecurity A Little Sunshine, Bentley, Bleeping Computer, Conti, Emotet, Hof, Lawrence Abrams, Mango, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Palo Alto Networks, Ransomware, Reverse, Ryuk, Stern, The Coming Storm, trickbot

Earlier this week, a Ukrainian security researcher leaked almost two years’ worth of internal chat logs from Conti, one of the more rapacious and ruthless ransomware gangs in operation today. Tuesday’s story examined how Conti dealt with its own internal breaches and attacks from private security firms and governments. In Part II of this series we’ll explore what it’s like to work for Conti, as described by the Conti employees themselves. …

1 Mar, 2022

Conti Ransomware Group Diaries, Part I: Evasion

Cybersecurity alex holden, Alla Witte, Conti, Conti breach, Conti ransomware, Contileaks, Emercoin, EmerDNS, Hof, Hold Security, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Ransomware, REvil ransomware, Stern, The Coming Storm, trickbot, Ukraine

A Ukrainian security researcher this week leaked several years of internal chat logs and other sensitive data tied to Conti, an aggressive and ruthless Russian cybercrime group that focuses on deploying its ransomware to companies with more than $100 million in annual revenue. The chat logs offer a fascinating glimpse into the challenges of running a sprawling criminal enterprise with more than 100 salaried employees. The records also provide insight into how Conti has dealt with its own internal breaches and attacks from private security firms and foreign governments. …

25 Feb, 2022

Russia Sanctions May Spark Escalating Cyber Conflict

Cybersecurity Latest Warnings, The Coming Storm

25 Jan, 2022

Scary Fraud Ensues When ID Theft & Usury Collide

Cybersecurity A Little Sunshine, Buckley LLP, installment loan, Leslie Bailey, Mountain Summit Financial, Native American Financial Services Association, payday loan, Public Justice, The Coming Storm, tribal lenders, Web Fraud 2.0

14 Jan, 2022

At Request of U.S., Russia Rounds Up 14 REvil Ransomware Affiliates

Cybersecurity Andrey Sergeevich Bessonov, Colonial Pipeline, DarkSide, Dmitri Alperovitch, FSB, GandCrab, Immersive Labs, Kevin Breen, Ne'er-Do-Well News, NotPetya, President Biden, Ransomware, rEvil, Roman Gennadyevich Muromsky, The Coming Storm, Vladimir Putin

The Russian government said today it arrested 14 people accused of working for “REvil,” a particularly aggressive ransomware group that has extorted hundreds of millions of dollars from victim organizations. The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said the actions were taken in response to a request from U.S. officials, but many experts believe the crackdown is part of an effort to reduce tensions over Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to station 100,000 troops along the nation’s border with Ukraine. …

11 Jan, 2022

‘Wormable’ Flaw Leads January 2022 Patch Tuesday

Cybersecurity CVE-2021-22947, CVE-2021-36976, CVE-2022-21846, CVE-2022-21907, Dustin Childs, Exchange Server, HTTP Protocol Stack, Latest Warnings, Microsoft Patch Tuesday January 2022, national security agency, Rapid7, Satnam Narang, Tenable, The Coming Storm, Time to Patch, trend micro, Zero Day Initiative

Microsoft today released updates to plug nearly 120 security holes in Windows and supported software. Six of the vulnerabilities were publicly detailed already, potentially giving attackers a head start in figuring out how to exploit them in unpatched systems. More concerning, Microsoft warns that one of the flaws fixed this month is “wormable,” meaning no human interaction would be required for an attack to spread from one vulnerable Windows box to another. …

26 Nov, 2021

The Internet is Held Together With Spit & Baling Wire

Cybersecurity A Little Sunshine, Adam Korab, BGP, Border Gateway Protocol, CenturyLink, Internet Routing Registry, IRR, kc claffy, Level3 Communications, Lumen Technologies, The Coming Storm

1 Nov, 2021

‘Trojan Source’ Bug Threatens the Security of All Code

Cybersecurity Bidi override, Cambridge University, CVE-2021-42574, CVE-2021-42694, Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute, Latest Warnings, Matthew Green, Nicholas Weaver, Ross Anderson, Rust, The Coming Storm, Time to Patch, Trojan Source bug, University of California Berkeley

Virtually all compilers — programs that transform human-readable source code into computer-executable machine code — are vulnerable to an insidious attack in which an adversary can introduce targeted vulnerabilities into any software without being detected, new research released today warns. The vulnerability disclosure was coordinated with multiple organizations, some of whom are now releasing updates to address the security weakness. …

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