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9868898064?profile=RESIZE_400xState-sponsored hacking groups, also known as advanced persistent threats (ATPs), have adopted this year a new attack technique called “RTF Template Injection,” which has brought a new twist and made their attacks harder to detect and stop.   Proofpoint is reporting that APTs from China, Russia, and India are already exploiting this technique, which they also expect to see adopted by financially-motivated threat actors as well.

So, what the heck is RTF Template Injection?  Called RTF Template In

9868168285?profile=RESIZE_400xThere seems to be a pattern in data breach and other cyber-attack cases.  After a data breach, a company often turns to its insurer for coverage.  Some companies have specialized cyber insurance and sometimes it does not.  Yet, even if businesses have paid for what they believe to be comprehensive cyber security risk insurance, the insurer may refuse to pay the claim.  Insurers often have many reasons for refusing coverage such as a failure to notify in a timely fashion, failure to mitigate cost

9864834675?profile=RESIZE_400xNobody wants to believe they’ll fall for a scam.  Especially not any of you, my intelligent, savvy, and OPSEC-conscious friends!  Your radar is always on and carefully protecting your personal information, so you’d never click the link in that fortune-promising email, you’d never open an unexpected file attachment, and you’d certainly never send some stranger a document with your personal details on it, that’s inconceivable.  Or is it?  A recent blog post on Hatless1der.com explains the developm

9861149277?profile=RESIZE_400xAn advanced malware operation on Discord utilizes the Babadeda crypter to hide malware that targets the crypto, NFT, and DeFi communities.  Babadeda is a crypter used to encrypt and obfuscate malicious payloads in what appear to be harmless application installers or programs.  Starting in May 2021, threat actors have been distributing remote access trojans obfuscated by Babadeda as a legitimate app on crypto-themed Discord channels.  Due to its complex obfuscation, it has a very low AV detection

9857998096?profile=RESIZE_400xAre hackers better at using AI than defenders?  “There are three parts of any security strategy. You want to be able to detect, to prevent, and to respond,” says the Global Chief Technology Officer of Dell Technologies.  “It turns out that in the 'detect' area, we are well underway.  If you are using a security event information-management service or managed-security service provider, and they are not already using high degrees of advanced machine intelligence to detect threats, you already lost

9840518456?profile=RESIZE_400xMicrosoft (MS) announced recently that data collected by its network of honeypot servers, that most brute-force attackers primarily attempt to guess short passwords, with very few attacks targeting credentials that are either long or contain complex characters.

“I analyzed the credentials entered from over >25 million brute force attacks against SSH.  This is around 30 days of data in Microsoft’s sensor network,” said a security researcher at Microsoft.  77% of attempts used a password between 1

9840514871?profile=RESIZE_400xActivity Summary - Week Ending on 24 November 2021:

  • Red Sky Alliance identified 26,071 connections from new IP’s checking in with our Sinkholes
  • Analysts identified 2,849 new IP addresses participating in various Botnets
  • DigitalOcean in the Cross-Hairs Again
  • Magniber Ransomware
  • Ransomware Still #1
  • Attack Framework - Left to Right
  • Core to the Edge
  • Iran Cyber Bullies & Mahan Airlines
  • Asia Financial Targets
  • CBDC
  • Environmentalists Sharing the Brave New World

Link to full report: IR-21-328-001_weekl

9837534264?profile=RESIZE_400xPhishing Emails are being used with small font size to bypass security filters.  Researchers at Avanan have spotted phishing emails that are using a font size of one (1) to fool email security scanners.  The emails appear to be password expiration notifications from Microsoft 365.  The attackers have inserted benign links that are invisible to the human eye, but trick security scanners into viewing the email as a legitimate marketing email.

“In this attack, hackers utilize a number of obfuscatio

9837181474?profile=RESIZE_400xA new Android banking trojan has been discovered targeting international banks and cryptocrrency services from the United Kingdom, Italy and the US.  Twenty-two instances have been reported so far.  The malware, first detected at the end of October 2021, appears to be new and is still being developed.  It was discovered by Cleafy, an Italian fraud detection and prevention firm.  Cleafy calls it ‘SharkBot’, named after the frequency of the word ‘sharked’ in its binaries.

SharkBot is not found in

9825168682?profile=RESIZE_400xA bipartisan group of state attorneys general said on Thursday they had opened an investigation into Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, for promoting its social media app Instagram while knowing of mental and emotional harms caused by Instagram. 

As of now, 11 US states are involved in the investigation, including California, Florida, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Tennessee and Vermont, as well as the District of Columbia.  The Massachuset

9824409479?profile=RESIZE_400xActivity Summary - Week Ending on 19 November 2021:

  • Red Sky Alliance identified 22,393 connections from new IP’s checking in with our Sinkholes
  • Analysts identified 5,918 new IP addresses participating in various Botnets
  • Firsttheberg.net in France has a Compromised IP
  • MBR Attacks
  • Abcbot Linux Malware
  • FatPipe
  • Not Just the CISOs Problem
  • Swedish Spoof
  • The FBI is Cold?
  • Lazarus Still Around
  • UK Gamers

Link to full report: IR-21-323-001_weekly323.pdf

9822927285?profile=RESIZE_400xA new initial access broker named Zebra2104, has been providing entry points to ransomware groups such as MountLocker and Phobos, as well as espionage-related advanced persistent threat group StrongPity, with access prices starting at just $25, according to a new report.  Zebra2104 enters a victim’s network and sells that access to the highest bidder on underground forums in the dark web.  This process saves threat actor customers the time, effort, and expense of gaining a toehold in an organiza

9822925673?profile=RESIZE_400xIt is the time of year when that little snitch, “The Elf on the Shelf” returns to the bane of most children.  Luckily that tattletale only works for a couple of weeks a year and then is returned to a box in the attic.  There is a new “Elf” in town, who will never take a day off. Do you think there are limits to what your employer can see you do online? Some new Microsoft updates may make you think a little more about that.   It may be that you think your employer is doing evil, unspeakable, or m

9822920885?profile=RESIZE_400xInsurance 101: Income (premiums) must exceed outgoings (claims) by around 30% (operating costs + profit).  If claims increase, so must premiums for the insurance model to remain viable.  And for the insurance companies to remain solvent and in business.

Cyber Insurance 102:  The cost of cybercrime is rising dramatically and has been doing so consistently for many years. Continually increasing premiums to counter continuously increasing claims is ultimately unsustainable.  Soon, the cost of insur

9822278874?profile=RESIZE_400xCybersecurity threats, risks and challenges are often different depending on various international locations.  Cyber-attack targets vary based on local resources and means to exploit vulnerabilities.  Cyber criminals and nation-state attackers zero in on specific nations, companies and organizations for varying incentives.   Additionally, the COVID-19 pandemic amplified and intensified cybersecurity threats.  Since 2019, attackers have launch remote work-enabled attacks or social engineering att

9817896295?profile=RESIZE_400xThere was an old 60’s movie called, The Spy who came in from the Cold.  Well the FBI could be sidelined in new cybersecurity legislation and left out in the cyber security cold.  In the view of America’s most powerful law enforcement agency, that could be a big problem.

In testimony to the US Congress, the current assistant director of the FBI’s Cyber Division, said that the Biden administration is “troubled” by legislation proposed by the US Senate and House Homeland Security committees requiri

9814450691?profile=RESIZE_400xUS college campus delivery robots are making an impact.  Delivery robot vendors are making a play for campuses across the country to establish a new market in a defined and structured environment, free of much of the regulatory complications of municipalities and ordinances.  But what about cyber threats and hacking of these new helpers?  The robots are no different from anyother cyber challenges.

Starship Technologies is delivering 30 autonomous robots for food service to South Dakota State Un

9795700079?profile=RESIZE_400xActivity Summary - Week Ending on 12 November 2021:

  • Red Sky Alliance identified 27,845 connections from new IP’s checking in with our Sinkholes
  • Analysts identified 3,224 new IP addresses participating in various Botnets
  • Sality remains the top Malware Variant at 24,282 Observation
  • Chaos Ransomware
  • Fake Ecommerce and Black Friday
  • Robinhood Hit (Again)
  • CISA 22-01
  • Ukraine & Gamaredon SSU Arrests
  • Pakistan and Russia
  • Cyber Attack US Federal Indictments
  • FIN7 still Kicking Around

 

 

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9788466479?profile=RESIZE_400xThe U.S. Department of State will create a Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy, led by a Senate-confirmed ambassador-at-large, to advance its cybersecurity diplomacy efforts, according to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The move is a response to a challenging global threat landscape including ransomware attacks believed to be regularly carried out from Russian soil.

Readers can see the current state of cyber security for federal agencies HERE

Blinken formally announced the office whi

9788455460?profile=RESIZE_400xGrief, a ransomware group with ties to Russia-based Evil Corp, claims to have stolen data from the gun-rights group and has posted files on its dark web site. A ransomware group tied to Russia claims to have stolen data from the National Rifle Association (NRA) in a ransomware attack on the controversial gun-rights group, which has declined to comment on the situation.

The Grief ransomware gang listed the NRA as a victim of its nefarious activity on its data-leak site. Brett Callow, a threat ana