Best Infosec Long-Reads of the Week, 8/6/22
How the Jester created CounterSocial, High-tech surveillance along the Arizona border is deadly, Faux CIA operative and cyber firm owner scammed victims, Why ransomware persists
How the Jester created CounterSocial, High-tech surveillance along the Arizona border is deadly, Faux CIA operative and cyber firm owner scammed victims, Why ransomware persists
Delhi cops bust WazirX hack suspect, S. Korea busts 215 in crypto scam, Embargo gang claims attack on US pharmacy organization, CIA official charged for leaking top-secret docs, Google rolls out real-time Pixel scam detection. Bitdefender releases ShrinkLocker decryptor, much more
Five Eyes release top 15 exploited vulnerabilities, Microsoft issued 89 Patch Tuesday fixes, Volt Typhoon returns, Lazarus Group embeds malware in macOS apps, Chinese state hackers launch new Tibet spy campaign, Trump taps Musk for DOGE, Trump to halt TikTok ban, much more
Charges unsealed for two Snowflake attackers, Amazon confirms employee data breach, Kristi Noem tapped as homeland security secretary, Iranian hackers leak persona data of Israeli nuclear scientist, Giga Token holder lost $6.09M in phishing scam, Ransomware hit Sheboygan, much more
Apple adds reboot feature that could frustrate cops, DDoS attacks hit South Korean defense sites, Israeli payment solutions provider hit by DDoS attack, Xi protégé leads China's spy efforts, US sentences Nigerian to ten years for cyber fraud, Palo Alto warns of PAN-OS RCE, much more