Also, cryptocurrency protocol Harvest Finance offers $100K to connect with hacker who led $24 million attack, Indian press agency hit with LockBit ransomware, Finnish psychotherapy clinic hacked (Plug plug plug. Today Metacurity has published its first post for paying subscribers—including our Patreon patrons—which lists the top 87 cybersecurity
Our first post for paid subscribers (including all our patrons on Patreon). We've winnowed down 150 cybersecurity podcasts down to about 87. Check out our table complete with links and RSS feeds.
Russia's Energetic Bear is blamed for a string of past high-profile cyberattacks on top of recent state and local government breaches, Louisiana National Guard called in to help with cyberattacks The U.S. government imposed sanctions against Russia’s State Research Center of the Russian Institute of
Russia's Energetic Bear hacked two-state and local gov't computer networks, UK backs EU in sanctioning GRU for Parliament hacks, Government confirms Iran behind spoofed Proud Boys threats Despite the Trump Administration’s efforts to cast Iran as an equal foe when it comes to cyberattacks,
Feds also say phishers posed as Proud Boys to scare Dems into voting for GOP, Law enforcement agencies across all 50 states have encrypted device unlocking tools, McAfee has gone public again
NSA warns of Chinese malicious activity, Sweden bans Huawei and ZTE, Pfizer exposes sensitive patient data, Many browsers features address bar spoofing flaw, Google issues Chrome fix and more
Microsoft top brand for phishers, GravityRAT is now multi-platform, Albion gaming platform breached, Instagram leaks of minors' data probed by data authority, NCSC urges Sharepoint patch and more (The biggest story of the day is yesterday’s massive indictment against alleged members of GRU’s Sandworm hacking group.
Group is responsible for bringing down Ukraine's power grid, launching the devastating NotPetya malware, conducting the Olympic Destroyer attacks and targeting Macron's campaign in France
Twitter changes "hacked materials" policy, Robinhood tells customers to set up 2FA, Toshiba plans to generate $3B from quantum key distribution, China's APT 31 poses as McAfee and others A phone call to an Internet provider in Oregon was all it took to briefly knock offline
Millions of Dickey's Restaurant customers' data for sale on the dark web, DOJ indicts botnet-related money-laundering group members, C-Span's Scully lied about hack, Iran admits cyberattacks, more Plugging away: check out my column today at CSO on the common pitfalls that cybersecurity
Twitter hackers began with tech support scam, FinFisher offices raided, Zoom to offer end-to-end encryption, Google and Intel warn of Bleeding Tooth Flaw in Linux, Trickbot network is still alive
It's not clear if any foreign threat actor or bona fide "hacking" incident was involved but a whole lot of confusion and chaos reigned. Bright side: U.S. is better prepared to tackle disinformation.