Newly Emerged JKwerlo Ransomware Targets Victims in France and Spain

JKwerlo’s utilization of lateral movement techniques and exploitation of legitimate services like Dropbox and GitHub highlight its capability to spread across networks and evade traditional security measures.

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U.S. State Government Network Breached via Former Employee’s Account

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has revealed that an unnamed state government organization’s network environment was compromised via an administrator account belonging to a former employee.
“This allowed the threat actor to successfully authenticate to an internal virtual private network (VPN) access point,” the agency said in a joint advisory published

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U.S. Government Disrupts Russian-Linked Botnet Engaged in Cyber Espionage

The U.S. government on Thursday said it disrupted a botnet comprising hundreds of small office and home office (SOHO) routers in the country that was put to use by the Russia-linked APT28 actor to conceal its malicious activities.
“These crimes included vast spear-phishing and similar credential harvesting campaigns against targets of intelligence interest to the Russian government, such as U.S.

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Elon Musk’s X Gave Check Marks to Terrorist Group Leaders, Report Says

A new report cited 28 “verified” accounts on X that appear to be tied to sanctioned groups or individuals.

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Google, Microsoft, OpenAI make AI pledges ahead of Munich Security Conference

Google today launched an ‘AI Cyber Defense Initiative and made several AI-related commitments, following a charge by Microsoft and OpenAI.Read More

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Volt Typhoon Hits Multiple Electric Utilities, Expands Cyber Activity

“Voltzite,” the APT’s subset that focuses on OT networks and critical infrastructure, has also compromised targets in Africa.

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