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CISA warns that US ICS/SCADA Systems are being Targeted by Threat Groups
Posted on Thursday, 14 April 2022
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Sean Kalinich
CISA has issued another warning that SCADA/ICS systems are being targeted for attack. This time they are in the sights of Nation-State groups and with customized tools. The tools are part of follow-on activities after the initial beachhead has been…
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Law Enforcement Celebrates Another Hacker Forum Takedown as the Seizure of RaidForums is Announced.
Posted on Wednesday, 13 April 2022
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Sean Kalinich
2022 has been a busy year for the information security industry on both sides of the playing field. We have seen an increase in target attacks on businesses, a larger number of Zero-Day vulnerabilities disclosed that were being actively exploited…
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Open Source Takes Another Hit as 3rd Protestware Shows up in NPM Repository
Posted on Tuesday, 12 April 2022
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Sean Kalinich
The Open Source community has been one that many leverage to help build their applications. It has become a great place to find applications packages that make building out a larger application or eco systems less time consuming. We see…
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Twitter Backtracks on Removing Embedded Tweets from 3rd Party Websites after Deletion for Now
Posted on Monday, 11 April 2022
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Sean Kalinich
Twitter is an interesting company. On the one hand they act like they are a bastion of free speech and have stood up for the anonymity of some of the users. They have, in the past refused government interference in…
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Leaked Conti Ransomware used in Attacks on Russian Targets
Posted on Monday, 11 April 2022
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Sean Kalinich
Not that long ago, a Ukrainian security researcher published a vast number of internal chats from the Ransomware group Conti. On top of that treasure trove of information the same researcher also published the source code for the Conti Ransomware.…
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Crypto Mining Malware Targeting Amazon Lambda Serverless Environments
Posted on Friday, 08 April 2022
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Sean Kalinich
Some needs to let Gordan Freeman know that the Xen aliens are attacking Lambda, time to grab a crowbar and go to work. Ok, so there are no invaders from a border dimension coming and the Lambda in question is…
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The State of Banking and Financial Malware on Google’s Play Store is Just Bad
Posted on Friday, 08 April 2022
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Sean Kalinich
It looks like there has been another round of malware identified on the Google Play sore and, you guessed it, the majority is focused on banks and other financial institutions. The combination of apps found totals around 515,000 downloads. 500,000…
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Twitter Moving to Allow Manipulation of Embedded Tweets on 3rd Party Websites
Posted on Thursday, 07 April 2022
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Sean Kalinich
Twitter has been in the new a lot over the last few years. From deleting accounts of people and groups for very flimsy reasons to censoring posts that contain factual, but non-popular information. It seems that they just cannot help…
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Financial Threat Group, FIN7 Shows Signs of Evolving Tools and Coordination with Ransomware Groups
Posted on Tuesday, 05 April 2022
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Sean Kalinich
For some reason, malware, attacker tools, and even the threat groups themselves tend to be viewed and talked about as static objects (outside of the security and threat analytics world). Malware is just Malware, the same with Ransomware strains. Once…
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New Tactic Could be Used to Impact Charging Stations for Electronic Vehicles
Posted on Tuesday, 05 April 2022
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Sean Kalinich
Imagine you are standing at a charging station charging your shiny new EV. You smugly look at all the antiquated gas-powered cars as they pay large amounts of money to keep their old, polluting, conveyances functional. Suddenly your charging station…
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Hackers Compromise MailChimp to Pivot to Crypto and Finance
Posted on Monday, 04 April 2022
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Sean Kalinich
Over the weekend news surfaced that indicated users of Trezor hardware crypto wallets had received emails claiming Trezor had been breached and urging the user to reset their PIN as soon as possible. The emails turned out to be a…
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Happy April 1st, See You on April 2nd
Posted on Friday, 01 April 2022
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Sean Kalinich
So, today is April 1st and with the net full of clever ideas to play a joke on readers it can be fun to sort through what is real and what is not. Because of this, we are going to…
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FBI Sent out an Advisory Alleging a Targeted Campaign Against State Election Officials
Posted on Wednesday, 30 March 2022
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Sean Kalinich
The FBI, on March 29th, released a Private Industry Notification with vague details on a potential Phishing campaign targeting election officials in at least nine US states. The information in the advisory gives very broad information without really saying much.…
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Lapsus$ Releases 70GB Allegedly from IT Firm Globant Data Despite Recent Arrests
Posted on Wednesday, 30 March 2022
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Sean Kalinich
Just when you might have thought things were calming down with Lapsus$, they bounce back from a “vacation” and dump what they are claiming is 70GB of data from IT group Globant. The leak comes after police in London announced…
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Google Releases 2nd Patch Now Advisory of 2022 as New Actively Exploited Zero-Day Shows Up.
Posted on Monday, 28 March 2022
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Sean Kalinich
Google pushed out a n Out-of-band patch for Chrome due to a high-severity on Friday (March 25th, 2022). The patch was pushed out quickly as the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-1096 is being actively exploited in the wild. CVE-2022-1096 is a…
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Okta Says they “made a mistake” Over Lapsus$ Incident
Posted on Monday, 28 March 2022
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Sean Kalinich
Lat week we reported on the quick change in Okta’s stance on a January security incident that turned out to be much larger and have the volatile hacking group Lapsus$ behind it. The original disclosure was that a single third-party…
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