An adversary, tracked as UNC-0050, known for using the RemcosRAT remote surveillance and control tool against organizations in Ukraine, is back with a new method to transfer data that evades Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) systems. In its latest campaign, the threat actor focuses on Ukrainian government entities. According to researchers at Uptycs, the attacks are likely politically motivated, to gather specific intelligence from Ukrainian government agencies.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced that it’s offering up to $70 million in funding for research into technologies that can boost the resilience and security of the energy sector.  The funding offered through this project, named the All-Hazards Energy Resilience program, is for research in four key areas: cyber threats, physical threats, natural disasters, and extreme weather events fueled by climate change.

A Nigerian national was recently arrested in Ghana and faces charges in the US for his role in a business email compromise (BEC) scheme involving two charitable organizations.  According to the indictment, between June and August 2020, the man, Olusegun Samson Adejorin, targeted two charities located in North Bethesda, Maryland, and New York, New York.  Adejorin allegedly obtained the credentials of employees of both organizations, accessed their email accounts, and impersonated employees at one of the charities to request withdrawals of funds from the other charity.

Bailey Bickley, this season’s host of NSA’s Cybersecurity Speaker Series, speaks with Adrian Stanger and Bill Layton on preparing for Post-Quantum. For more on cybersecurity at NSA, and to find out when our next Speaker Series video is posted, follow us on Twitter @NSACyber.

Three new malicious packages that can deploy a cryptocurrency miner on Linux devices have been discovered in the Python Package Index (PyPI) open-source repository. The three malicious packages, named "modularseven," "driftme," and "catme," were downloaded a total of 431 times in the past month before being removed. According to Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researcher Gabby Xiong, the packages deploy a CoinMiner executable on Linux devices. The campaign appears to overlap with a previous campaign that used a package called "culturestreak" to launch a cryptocurrency miner.

A team of computer scientists led by the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst announced a new method to automatically generate whole proofs that can be used to prevent software bugs and verify the correctness of the underlying code. Baldur is the new method involving Large Language Models' (LLMs) Artificial Intelligence (AI) power. Combined with the Thor tool, an efficacy of nearly 66 percent is reached.

According to Vercara, businesses faced about 800,000 cyberattacks in 2023, with over 60,000 of them being Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks and 4,000 falling victim to ransomware. Consumers have nuanced perceptions of cybersecurity incidents and are oftentimes unaware of their role in maintaining cyber hygiene within a business. These findings highlight the importance of brand trust in the digital landscape, with 75 percent of consumers expressing their willingness to cut ties with a brand after any cybersecurity incident.