Best Infosec Long-Reads of the Week, 6/11/22

Costa Rica pays a steep price for the Conti ransomware attack, Binance has processed billions from malicious deeds, Bitcoin veil of anonymity pierced, Malaysian LGBTQ activists get infosec help , more Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and paid subscribers this weekly digest of selected long-form infosec pieces and related

Best Infosec Long-Reads of the Week, 6/11/22

Costa Rica pays a steep price for the Conti ransomware attack, Binance has processed billions from malicious deeds, Bitcoin veil of anonymity pierced, Malaysian LGBTQ activists get infosec help , more

Invasive Linux Malware Symbiote Stealthily Steals Credentials and Enables Backdoor Access

Hackers use Follina to spread banking Trojan, Stalkerware TruthSpy exposes data, Russian warns West to stop cyberattacks or else, Hacker exploits Optimism lapse to swipe $16 million, much more

Hackers Targeted Russian Radio Station to Protest Moscow's Invasion of Ukraine

Tehran blames Mossad for cyberattack last fall, Mixed reports suggest U.S. might remove NSO Group from blacklist, Emotet is trying to steal credit card data from Chrome profiles, much more

Feds Say Chinese Hacking Groups Compromised Significant Telecom and Network Providers

International op took down SSNDOB marketplace, MongoDB adds Queryable Encryption, U.S. government has been tracking international tourists, Actors stole $113 million from DEX exchange, more

LockBit Gang Claims Attack on Mandiant in Likely Gambit to Shed Sanctioned Evil Corp Connection

Binance reportedly processed over $2.35b in illegal activities, AlphaBay is back, S.Ct. asks admin to address NSO lawsuit, Spain seeks NSO CEO's testimony, Apple demos new security features, much more

Hackers Reportedly Demand Ransom Following Russian Ministry Website Hack

Atlassian issues fixes for zero day just as PoC exploit emerges, Federal privacy law introduced, FDA warns of vulnerabilities in genetic analysis software, Hackers steal more Bored Ape NFTs, much more

Best Long-Reads of the Week, 6/4/22

Is social media bad for us, Zelensky thoughts on the IT army, Have you read all of your apps' privacy policies, the FBI tried to ambush a journalist's source who wanted to spill the beans on NSA, more

Best Long-Reads of the Week, 6/4/22

Is social media bad for us, Zelensky thoughts on the IT army, Have you read all of your apps' privacy policies, the FBI tried to ambush a journalist's source who wanted to spill the beans on NSA, more Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and paid

Hackers Are Exploiting Atlassian Confluence Zero Day to Install Shells With No Fix Available

Exile group claims disruption of 5,000 cameras in Tehran, Ransomware groups shape-shift to avoid detection, Conti gang developed firmware hacks, Flaw in smartphone chipset could disrupt comms, more

Iranian State Hackers Targeted Boston Children's Hospital in 'Despicable' Cyberattack

U.S. conducted offensive cyber operations in Ukraine, Europol took down FluBot operation, Feds seized domains selling personal information, Nearly 4m MySQL servers are exposed and much more

A Chinese APT Group is Exploiting the Microsoft Follina Flaw for Remote Code Execution

CISA warns of Dominion voting machine vulnerabilities, Italy's CSIRT warns of DDoS attacks, Costa Rica's social security fund hit by Hive ransomware, Russian government spends $8m on VPNs, much more