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  • "Five Data Wipers Attack Ukrainian News Agency"
    Ukrainian cyber experts have discovered multiple pieces of destructive malware that, earlier this month, were used in an attack targeting the country’s national news agency (Ukrinform).  After being asked by Ukrinform to investigate, a team at the…
  • "Latvia Confirms Phishing Attack on Ministry of Defense, Linking It to Russian Hacking Group"
    Gamaredon, a Russian cyber espionage group, may have been responsible for the recent phishing attack on Latvia's Ministry of Defense. Several employees of the ministry received malicious emails from hackers posing as Ukrainian government officials, but…
  • "Germany's Tank Support Met With Russian Cyberattacks"
    Pro-Russian hackers took notice of Germany's decision to send 14 Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. The number of cyberattacks on German targets jumped by 35 percent after Chancellor Olaf Scholz agreed to provide tanks to Ukraine. According to the cyber…
  • "Insider Attacks Becoming More Frequent, More Difficult to Detect"
    Gurucul reports that 3 percent of cybersecurity professionals it surveyed are not worried about insider risk. With responses from more than 325 cybersecurity professionals, this research examines the most recent trends and challenges that organizations…
  • "Google: Influence Operator Dragonbridge Floods Social Media in Sprawling Cyber Campaign"
    Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has been working to disrupt the online presence of the pro-Chinese Influence Operation (IO) Dragonbridge, also known as Spamoflage Dragon, eradicating over 50,000 instances of activity across Twitter, YouTube, Blogger…
  • "UNC2565 Threat Actors Continue to Improve the GOOTLOADER Malware"
    The UNC2565 group behind the GOOTLOADER malware, also known as Gootkit, continues to develop their code by adding new components and adopting new obfuscation techniques, according to researchers at Mandiant. Gootkit uses an Access-as-a-Service (AaaS)…
  • "A National Science Foundation Grant Will Help USF Recruit Students to Fight Cybercrime"
    More than $29 million in new funding is being provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to promote the development of a skilled cybersecurity workforce. The NSF stated that the funds will be used to address cybersecurity professional recruitment…
  • "US No Fly List Shared on a Hacking Forum, Government Investigating"
    A US No Fly list with more than 1.5 million banned flyers and over 250,000 'selectees' has been made public on a hacking forum. A Swiss hacker found the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) No Fly list hosted on a misconfigured AWS server. The…
  • "Titan Stealer: A New Golang-Based Information Stealer Malware Emerges"
    Through their Telegram channel, threat actors are promoting a new Golang-based information-stealing virus dubbed Titan Stealer. The stealer can take data from infected Windows machines, including credential data from browsers and cryptocurrency wallets,…
  • "Protecting Critical Infrastructure Through High-Assurance Security and Authorization"
    The rising number of cyber threats faced by critical infrastructure emphasizes the importance of developing innovative and adaptable solutions to protect sensitive components. Professor of computer science and engineering at the University of South…
  • "Identifying a Vulnerability in Critical Spacecraft Networks"
    Linh Thi Xuan Phan, an associate professor in Penn Engineering's department of computer and information science, worked with a team of researchers from the University of Michigan and NASA to identify a security vulnerability in critical spacecraft…
  • "Russian-Sponsored Group Sandworm Hits Ukraine With New Wiper Malware"
    On January 25, a new wiper cyberattack linked to Sandworm was launched against Ukraine. According to the cybersecurity firm ESET, the wiper malware dubbed SwiftSlicer deletes shadow copies and recursively overwrites files found in system drivers and…