US Releases Russian Hackers and Spies as Part of Prisoner Swap

The United States, along with Germany and Slovenia, participated in a historic prisoner exchange with Russia, releasing hackers, spies, and an assassin. The swap took place at an airport in Ankara, Turkey.

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Russian Threat Actors Hijacked Over 30,000 Domains in Sitting Ducks Attacks

This attack method takes advantage of vulnerabilities at the registrar level and lax ownership verification at DNS providers. Research has shown that over a million domains could be vulnerable to this type of attack daily.

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Newly Identified BITSLOTH Backdoor Uses Novel C2 Communication Channel

A new Windows backdoor named BITSLOTH has been discovered by cybersecurity researchers. This malware exploits the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) for stealthy communication, making it difficult to detect.

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Fighting Ursa Luring Targets With Car for Sale

APT28, a Russia-linked threat actor (also known as Fighting Ursa, Fancy Bear, and Sofacy), has been identified in a campaign using a car sale phishing lure to deliver the HeadLace Windows backdoor to target diplomats since March 2024.

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Cisco Investments Backs Anti-Ransomware Firm Halcyon

Cisco Investments has invested in Halcyon, an anti-ransomware company, to enhance its platform and reduce ransomware risks to zero. The investment amount remains undisclosed, but Halcyon has raised a total of $90 million so far.

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Ongoing DEV#POPPER Malware Campaign Expands Targeting

The attackers, posing as interviewers, urge candidates to download a ZIP file containing malware. The campaign has targeted victims in South Korea, North America, Europe, and the Middle East.

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New NSA AI-powered Tool Would Help Industry Optimize Cyber Defense Testing

The Autonomous Penetration Testing platform would replace much of the laborious, manual process of such testing, where organizations use vulnerability scanning tools and other methods to measure the robustness of their cyberdefenses against hackers

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Critical Infrastructure Group Launches Effort to Aid Federal Agencies’ Cyber Defenses

The Center for Federal Civilian Executive Branch Resilience, launched by the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology, aims to enhance standards and procedures for protecting government agencies from cybercriminals and nation-state hackers.

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New Tech, Personnel Will Help CISA with Coming Rush of Cyber Incident Reports

The CISA is working to comply with the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022, requiring critical infrastructure providers to report cybersecurity incidents and ransomware attacks within specific timeframes.

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Increased Botnet Activity Against Apache OFBiz Exploiting CVE-2024-32113

The open-source ERP framework OFBiz is being targeted by the Mirai botnet due to a critical directory traversal vulnerability that allows for remote command execution. This vulnerability was patched in May for versions before 18.12.13.

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