Pierluigi Paganini December 31, 2023

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Cybercrime

Cyber sleuths reveal how they infiltrate the biggest ransomware gangs

KHO IT system failure after cyber attack

Cybercriminals Launched “Leaksmas” Event In The Dark Web Exposing Massive Volumes Of Leaked PII And Compromised Data  

Ohio Lottery Hit by Ransomware, Hackers Claim Theft of Employee and Player Data

Malware

NCC Group Monthly Threat Pulse – November 2023

Analysis of Attacks That Install Scanners on Linux SSH Servers  

Stealth Backdoor “Android/Xamalicious” Actively Infecting Devices   

ESET Threat Report H2 2023  

Hacking

Barracuda Email Security Gateway Appliance (ESG) Vulnerability

Hackers stole $2 billion in crypto in 2023, data shows     

SMTP Smuggling  

SonicWall Discovers Critical Apache OFBiz Zero-day -AuthBiz  

Meet Joe Biden’s Favorite Hacker  

Intelligence and Information Warfare

Ukraine’s partners launch Tallinn Mechanism to amplify cyber support  

Threat Actor ‘UAC-0099’ Continues to Target Ukraine  

Microsoft: Hackers target defense firms with new FalseFont malware  

End government by WhatsApp, urges former GCHQ head  

The Rebirth of Russian Spycraft  

Operation Triangulation: The last (hardware) mystery  

APT28: From initial attack to creating threats to a domain controller in an hour (CERT-UA#8399) 

China’s social-media attacks are part of a larger ‘cognitive warfare’ campaign  

What to Know About the Hacker Group That Shut Down 70% of Iran’s Gas Stations

Inside the world of deep-cover spies that Russia is deploying to infiltrate the West     

How China’s Ministry of State Security is using AI to hunt American spies in Beijing in ‘new Cold War’ with the CIA: Powerful software creates instant dossiers to weed out enemy agents       

Cybersecurity

Five bold cybersecurity predictions for 2024

Cloud CISO Perspectives: Our 2024 Cybersecurity Forecast report

Albanian Parliament and One Albania Telecom Hit by Cyber Attacks

The Emerging Landscape of AI-Driven Cybersecurity Threats: A Look Ahead

Google settles $5bn lawsuit for ‘private mode’ tracking  

New York Times sues Microsoft, ChatGPT maker OpenAI over copyright infringement

US cyber warriors issue a call to arms  

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