Infosecurity News

Christmas Warning: Threat Actors Impersonate your Favorite Brands to Attack, Finds CSC
Majority of third-party domain names impersonating the biggest global brands use domain privacy services, indicating the owner’s intention to mask their identity

Swiss Government Wants to Implement Mandatory Duty to Report Cyber-Attacks
The move would shed light on hackers and sound the alarm more widely on cyber-threats in the country.

Threat Actors Use Malicious File Systems to Scale Crypto-Mining Operations
The hackers used PRoot to increase the scope of their operations to several Linux distributions

Gen Z Internet Users "Normalize" Cybercrime - Report
EU-funded study finds concerning levels of risky behavior

Russian Hackers Use Western Networks to Attack Ukraine
Lupovis used decoys to find out more about threat actors

Prolific Chinese Hackers Stole US COVID funds
Secret Service says discovery may be the tip of the iceberg

Rackspace Admits Security Incident, Helps Customers Migrate to Microsoft 365 Accounts
The known impact was isolated to a portion of the firm's Hosted Exchange platform

'Team Mysterious Bangladesh' Hackers Target Indian Education Entity
The hackers allegedly stole PII, including names, Aadhar numbers and IFSC codes

Cyber Extortion Growing Exponentially in Africa, Middle East and China, Finds Orange
Businesses are getting better at preventing cyber incidents, Orange Cybedefense’s head of Security Research Center said

Google Releases Chrome Emergency Fix For Ninth Zero-Day This Year
The flaw relates to a type confusion bug in the V8 JavaScript engine

Manufacturers Struggle to Manage Cyber-Threats from New Tech Deployments
42% of UK manufacturers have been a victim of cybercrime in the past 12 months, according to new research

Digital Giant ABB to Pay $315m in Bribery Case
Firm pleads guilty in major South Africa conspiracy

Microsoft: Beware Russian Winter Cyber-Offensive
Ukraine's allies may be in the firing line for destructive attacks

French Hospital Halts Operations After Cyber-Attack
André-Mignot hospital shuts down computer systems

Google Increases Android Security With Memory-Safe Programming Languages
The number of memory safety vulnerabilities in Android dropped from 223 in 2019 to 85 in 2022

'Black Proxies' Enable Threat Actors to Conduct Malicious Activity
First used as botnets, their lucrative nature turned them into independent criminal enterprises

Hackers Use Archive Files and HTML Smuggling to Bypass Detection Tools
HP's latest report suggests 44% of malware was delivered via archive files in Q3 2022

Industry Coalition Urges Congress to Hold off on SBOM Requirements for Defense Contractors
The coalition outlined the need to refine SBOM requirements before making it an obligation for defense contractors

NATO Launches Massive Cyber-Defense Exercise
Annual Cyber Coalition effort helps nations develop and share best practice

Cuba Ransomware Actors Pocket $60m
Number of US victims has doubled over the past year



