Infosecurity News

Attacker Breakout Time Drops to Just 84 Minutes
Every second counts as threat actors accelerate lateral movement

Dish Network Confirms Ransomware Outage
Satellite TV provider comes clean in SEC filing

Researchers Release MortalKombat Ransomware Decryptor
Bitdefender moves in record time to help victims

US Gov. Agencies Have 30 Days to Remove TikTok, Canada Follows Suit
Within 90 days, agencies must also cancel existing contracts that necessitate the app's use

Keylogger on Employee Home PC Led to LastPass 2022 Breach
Threat actors obtained credentials and keys later used to access and decrypt some storage volumes

Ransomware Attack Hits US Marshals Service
Drew Wade, chief of the Marshals Service public affairs office, made the announcement on Monday

Phone Attacks and MFA Bypass Drive Phishing in 2022
Proofpoint reveals surge in direct financial losses from attacks

Experts Spot Half a Million Novel Malware Variants in 2022
Overall malware detections also rise after three years of decline

London Honeypots Attacked 2000 Times Per Minute
Insurer records 91 million attacks in total in January

Researchers Discover Nearly 200,000 New Mobile Banking Trojan Installers
Kaspersky said the figures are more than double what the team observed in 2021

News Corp Reveals Two-Year-Long Breach
A threat actor accessed business documents and emails between February 2020 and January 2022

ChromeLoader Malware Poses as Steam, Nintendo Game Mods
Asec said the malicious activity observed relied on VHD disk image files

North Carolina Business Magnate Indicted in $2bn Fraud Case
Insurance company owner alleged to have skimmed off millions

Governments Targeted by Discord-Based Threat Campaign
Threat actor delivers multiple malware types via PureCrypter

Police Arrest Trio in Multimillion-Dollar Extortion Case
Men are accused of stealing data on tens of millions of victims

Privacy Concerns Raised Over Android Apps' Data Safety Labels
The claims come from Mozilla's *Privacy Not Included researchers

CISA Calls For Increased Vigilance One Year After Ukraine's Russian Invasion
It warned nations' defenders against disruptive and defacement attacks today

EU Commission Bans TikTok on Corporate Devices
The move aims to protect the Commission against cybersecurity threats

Russian IT “Brain Drain” Decentralizes Cybercrime
Recorded Future claims war in Ukraine is having a major impact

Investment Scams Drive $9bn in Fraud in 2022
FTC says consumer fraud is up 30% on the previous year



