Elizabeth Montalbano reports: Attackers have unleashed an EvilProxy phishing campaign to target thousands of Microsoft 365 user accounts worldwide, sending a flood of 120,000 phishing emails to more than 100 organizations across the globe in the three-month period between March and June alone. The goal? To take over C-suite and other executive accounts, in order to…
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How the FBI goes after DDoS cyberattackers
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: In 2016, hackers using a network of compromised internet-connected devices — vulnerable security cameras and routers — knocked some of the then biggest websites on the internet offline for several hours. Twitter, Reddit, GitHub and Spotify all went down intermittently that day, victims of what was at the time one of the largest distributed denial-of-service attacks…
US cyber body to review cloud computing safety, Microsoft breach
Reuters reports: August 11 — A U.S. cyber safety body will review issues relating to cloud-based identity and authentication infrastructure that will include an assessment of a recent Microsoft (MSFT.O) breach that led to the theft of emails from U.S. government agencies, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said on Friday. The review by the Cyber…
UK Electoral Commission had an unpatched Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerability
Kevin Beaumont writes: You have have read about the hack of the Electoral Commission recently. In this piece we take a look at what happened, show they were running Microsoft Exchange Server with Outlook Web App (OWA) facing the internet, and the unpatched vulnerability that presented. The Electoral Commission ran Microsoft Exchange Server on IP…
Governor Hochul Announces Nation-Leading Cybersecurity Strategy
Backed by $600 Million Commitment to Bolster Cybersecurity for All New Yorkers Representatives from the White House, Critical Infrastructure, and the Private Sector Joined Governor Hochul for Announcement Advances Governor’s State of the State Priority to Improve New York’s Cybersecurity Posture August 9 – Governor Kathy Hochul today announced New York’s first-ever statewide cybersecurity strategy aimed…
CISA: Review Of The Attacks Associated with Lapsus$ And Related Threat Groups Report
Executive Summary Beginning in late 2021 and continuing late into 2022, a globally active, extortion-focused cyber threat actor group attacked dozens of well-known companies and government agencies around the world. It penetrated corporate networks, stole source code, demanded payments while rarely following up, lodged political messages in shadowy online forums, and swiftly moved on to…