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Cyber Threat Weekly – #60
The week of January 6th through January 12th, roughly 358 cyber news articles were reviewed. A light amount of cyber threat trends and adversarial behavior news to share. This week it looks like it’s mostly social engineering behavior to report. Let’s start with taking advantage of the familiar,
Cyber Threat Weekly – #59
The week of December 30th through January 5th, roughly 169 cyber news articles were reviewed. A very light amount of cyber threat trends and adversarial behavior news to share. Let’s start with a new Android malware called FireScam. Phishing and SEO poisoning delivers PLAYFULGHOST. Crash Windows servers with LDAPNightmare.
Cyber Threat Weekly – #58
The week of December 23rd through December 29th, roughly 148 cyber news articles were reviewed. A light amount of cyber threat trends and adversarial behavior news to share. Let’s start with a ninth US telecom breach linked to Chinese APT. Palo Alto Networks (PAN) firewall denial of service (DoS)
Cyber Threat Weekly – #57
The week of December 16th through December 22nd, around 326 cyber news articles were reviewed. A moderate amount of cyber threat trend and adversarial behavior news to share. Let’s start with $2.2 billion in Cryptocurrency stolen in 2024. New Phishing-as-a-Service (PHaaS) on the rise. Obfuscating Malicious JavaScript using
Cyber Threat Weekly – #56
The week of December 9th through December 15th, about 348 cyber news articles were reviewed. Only a light amount of cyber threat trend and adversarial behavior news to share. Let’s start with HeartCrypt – Packer-as-a-Service (PaaS). Citrix NetScaler / NetScaler Gateway under brute force attack. Covert Linux multi-stage rootkit attack. New
Cyber Threat Weekly – #55
The week of December 2nd through December 8th there were 353 cyber news articles reviewed. A relatively large amount of cyber threat trends and adversarial behavior news to share. Let’s start with a twist on the fake video conferencing apps campaign. New Russian hacktivist group targeting energy systems. Supply
Cyber Threat Weekly – #54
The Thanksgiving week of November 25th through December 1st was light with only 263 cyber news articles reviewed. Only a light amount of cyber threat trend and adversarial behavior news to share. Let’s start with a novel phishing campaign using corrupted Word docs. Malicious Android SpyLoan apps installed 8
Cyber Threat Weekly – #53
The week of November 18th through November 24th, 342 cyber news articles were reviewed. A moderate amount of cyber threat trend and adversarial behavior news to share. Let’s start with threat actors love the ‘bring your own vulnerable driver’ attack. Threat actors use Wi-Fi to breach US organization from
Cyber Threat Weekly – #52
The week of November 11th through November 17th, 332 cyber news articles were reviewed. Quite a bit of cyber threat trend and adversarial behavior news to share. Let’s start with increasing use of SVG attachments in email phishing. An undocumented Fortinet FortiClient bug used to steal VPN credentials. Palo
Cyber Threat Weekly – #51
The week of November 4th through November 10th, 330 cyber news articles were reviewed. The feed list has been adjusted, so the number of articles should be mostly lower. Let’s start with threat actors using Zip file concatenation technique. Cybercriminals abuse emergency data requests (EDRs) with compromised credentials. AWS
