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Cyber Threat Weekly – #16
The week of March 4th through March 10th was a bit light with 456 cyber news articles combed through. Still a decent amount of cyber threat trend and adversarial behavior news. Let’s start with cybercriminals observed switching TTPs quickly to maintain effectiveness. Web browser credential dumping is picking up
Cyber Threat Weekly – #15
With 507 cyber news articles, the week of February 26th to March 3rd was moderately heavy on threat trends and adversary behavioral patterns. Let’s start with Russian threat actors target cloud infrastructure. Attackers use unsupported CMS editor to facilitate SEO poisoning. Major brands subdomains hijacked for massive spam campaign.
Cyber Threat Weekly – #14
With 458 cyber threat news articles, the week of February 19th to the 25th was relatively light in threat trends and adversary behavior news. Let’s start with a carryover from last week, over 28,000 exchange servers vulnerable to now patched bug. Bricks WordPress theme under active exploitation. Researchers
Cyber Threat Weekly – #13
With 483 cyber news articles combed through, the week of February 12th to the 18th was interesting to say the least. Let’s start with a new stealthy malware using reverse proxy tools. Execs targeted with an Azure account hijacking campaign, still ongoing. Keeping an eye on dark LLMs. QR
Cyber Threat Weekly – #12
The evolving threat landscape simply doesn’t slow down, although this is a relatively light week. Let’s start with Ivanti and yet another vulnerability. Researchers share 2023 Ransomware leak site analysis. JetBrains critical bug allows an unauthenticated attacker to bypass authentication checks. Volt Typhoon uses small office home office
Cyber Threat Weekly – #11
A busy week in threat news. Let’s start with a new ZLoader variant emerges. An exploration of Telegram’s dark markets and a phishing expedition. Criminals actively target network operator’s credentials. Scanning attempts of Atlassian Confluence RCE Bug. Discovery and analysis of a new DLL Loader. GitLab releases
Cyber Threat Weekly – #10
This week’s newsletter is a bit lighter than earlier this month, although news volumes continue to increase. Let’s start with exploit attempts on the critical Atlassian Confluence bug disclosed last week. First zero-day flaw of the year for Apple. Digging deeper into a pair of malicious traffic direction
Cyber Threat Weekly – #9
Another busy news cycle last week. Let’s start with potential remote code execution in over 178,000 SonicWall firewalls. This is not good, Ivanti Connect Secure VPN now under mass exploitation. CISA releases advisory on Androxgh0st malware. Critical flaw in older versions of Atlassian Confluence Datacenter and Server. First
Cyber Threat Weekly - #8
It got busy last week, a bunch of news to cover. Let’s start with a new extortion tactic by ransomware clown posse threat actors, cyber criminals suck. A great piece on bullet proof hosting by Krebs. Yet another means of extortion for ransomware victims, fake data deletion scam. Honey
Cyber Threat Weekly - #7
Kicking off a new week, last week we saw several interesting threats. Let’s start with a new variation of dynamic link library (DLL) search order hijacking technique. Next, social engineering through LinkedIn, this is a notable trend. Black Basta ransomware decryption tool released. Possible Cisco ASA vulnerability for sale
