The threat actor behind the remote access Trojan called RomCom and other pro-Russian groups are targeting Ukrainian agencies and allies ahead of the NATO Summit this week in Vilnius, Lithuania, using weaponized Microsoft documents and typosquatting techniques to deliver the malware.
The European Commission has officially adopted the EU-U.S. Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework, which will enable the free flow of commercial data between Europe and the United States. The framework will go into effect in December and will be subject to yearly review by the European Commission.
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This week, Charming Kitten targeted nuclear experts; over 130,000 solar energy monitoring systems are exposed; organizations confirmed a breach due to the MOVEit zero-day; Russian hackers took over a Ukrainian government agency's Facebook page; and a WordPress plug-in gave admin privileges to users.
A Chinese nation-state group is hacking foreign affairs ministries and embassies across Europe, employing a sophisticated HTML-smuggling technique to deliver the insidious PlugX remote access Trojan to compromised systems. The technique raises concern about the security of diplomatic institutions.
Experts believe China's revised Counter-Espionage Law gives the Chinese Communist Party the power to retaliate against Western financial and technological sanctions and also control rising discontent among Chinese citizens. The law went into effect on Saturday.
Russia has relied on blunt-force cyberattacks in Ukraine to inflict maximum damage rather than turning to new techniques. In many cases, Ukrainian defenders are flying blind because Russian wiper malware is designed to evade most security controls, said Mandiant CEO Kevin Mandia.
An Iranian government-backed hacking group known as Charming Kitten has updated its malware arsenal to include an updated version of the Powerstar backdoor, also known as CharmPower, which takes advantage of a distributed file protocol to distribute customized phishing links.
The United Kingdom's national cybersecurity agency on Friday marked the 20th anniversary of its response to the first-ever cyberattack against the government by disclosing how government agencies responded. The incident paved way for the launch of the National Cyber Security Center in 2016.
This week, the U.S. sanctioned Russians running influence campaigns, the owner of the Monopoly darknet drug market was charged, CISA ordered federal agencies to patch flaws before July 13, Suncor Energy suffered a cyberattack and Petro-Canada gas stations were affected.
Researchers discovered an undisclosed malware family named EarlyRat being used by a branch of the North Korea-backed Lazarus Group. Kaspersky researchers said they stumbled upon the never-before-seen malware family, which is deployed in Log4j and phishing attacks.
Cyberattackers have hit Ukraine's critical infrastructure over 3,000 times since the beginning of the Russian invasion in 2022, according to Ukraine's national incident response team, which warned that such attacks may continue for years even after the fighting on the ground is over.
Security researchers at Censys found hundreds of federally owned devices at 50 different agencies exposed to the internet, accessible through IPv4 addresses and loaded with potentially vulnerable MOVEit and Barracuda Networks' ESG software. The vulnerabilities violate new CISA policy, the firm said.
Technology giant Apple has joined the chorus of voices calling on the British government to rethink its proposed Online Safety Bill legislation intended to increase public safety by monitoring people's private communications via client-side scanning.
The European cyber agency continues to remain underfunded despite the surge in ransomware and other cyberthreats, the organization's chief said in a recent hearing. The ENISA chief called on the European Commission to hold regulatory consultations to address the existing policy gaps.
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