Smartphone counterespionage for travelers
If you’re traveling abroad on business, there’s a good chance you’ll need to bring along a smartphone to get around, meet up with associates or learn about the idiosyncrasies …
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CVE-2021-40444 exploitation: Researchers find connections to previous attacks
The recent targeted attacks exploiting the (at the time) zero-day remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2021-40444) in Windows via booby-trapped Office documents have been …
Belgium’s Interior Ministry uncovers 2-year-long compromise of its network
Belgium’s Federal Public Service Interior (i.e., the country’s Interior Ministry) has suffered a “complex, sophisticated and targeted cyberattack.” …
What contractors should start to consider with the DoD’s CMMC compliance standards
Q1 2021 has been a tumultuous period in our era of cyber espionage. The Center For Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), which has been tracking “significant cyber …
Digital dependence and innovation: Two critical trends in cyber espionage and crime
Being a veteran cybersecurity incident responder with over 21 years of field experience I know I will always have a job and it will always be interesting. In the evolution of …
SolarWinds hack investigation reveals new Sunspot malware
Crowdstrike researchers have documented Sunspot, a piece of malware used by the SolarWinds attackers to insert the Sunburst malware into the company’s Orion software. …
Top videoconferencing attacks and security best practices
Videoconferencing has become a routine part of everyday life for remote workers, students, and families. Yet widespread adoption of this technology has also attracted …
SolarWinds hackers’ capabilities include bypassing MFA
As the list of known organizations compromised by way of the SolarWinds supply chain attack is slowly growing – according to Reuters, the attackers also breached U.S. …
US charges Sandworm hackers who mounted NotPetya, other high-profile attacks
The Sandworm Team hacking group is part of Unit 74455 of the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), the US Department of Justice (DoJ) claimed as it unsealed an …
The biggest cyber threats organizations deal with today
Microsoft has released a new report outlining enterprise cyberattack trends in the past year (July 2019 – June 2020) and offering advice on how organizations can protect …
State-backed hacking, cyber deterrence, and the need for international norms
As time passes, state-backed hacking is becoming an increasingly bigger problem, with the attackers stealing money, information, credit card data, intellectual property, state …
Biomedical orgs working on COVID-19 vaccines open to cyber attacks
In a recently released report by the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), whose findings have been backed by Canada’s Communications Security Establishment (CSE) and the …
