Pierluigi Paganini February 18, 2024

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Cybercrime

International Cybercrime Malware Service Dismantled by Federal Authorities: Key Malware Sales and Support Actors in Malta and Nigeria Charged in Federal Indictments  

As-a-Service tools empower criminals with limited tech skills 

Ransomware Attack Takes 100 Hospitals Offline 

Reward for Information: ALPHV/Blackcat Ransomware as a Service

Foreign National Pleads Guilty to Role in Cybercrime Schemes Involving Tens of Millions of Dollars in Losses      

Malware

RASPBERRY ROBIN KEEPS RIDING THE WAVE OF ENDLESS 1-DAYS

A Method for Decrypting Data Infected with Rhysida Ransomware  

Bypassing EDRs With EDR-Preloading  

Justice Department Conducts Court-Authorized Disruption of Botnet Controlled by the Russian Federation’s Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff (GRU)

Face Off  

Hacking

Snap Trap: The Hidden Dangers Within Ubuntu’s Package Suggestion System

Disrupting malicious uses of AI by state-affiliated threat actors      

CISA and MS-ISAC Release Advisory on Compromised Account Used to Access State Government Organization

Ivanti Pulse Secure Found Using 11-Year-Old Linux Version and Outdated Libraries

Intelligence and Information Warfare 

Global Malicious Activity Targeting Elections Is Skyrocketing  

Staying ahead of threat actors in the age of AI  

US needs to take China’s cyber-threat to US infrastructure more seriously 

South Korea says presumed North Korean hackers breached personal emails of presidential staffer  

TinyTurla Next Generation – Turla APT spies on Polish NGOs  

Cybersecurity          

LEADERSBuilding a Data Fortress: Data Security and Privacy in the Age of Generative AI and LLMs   

Package Theft Statistics  

After a tip, ExpressVPN acts swiftly to protect customers  

Canada to ban the Flipper Zero to stop surge in car thefts

I’m a cyber expert, these are the five things you need to do to ‘digitally break up’ with someone in the age of login sharing  

THE FEBRUARY 2024 SECURITY UPDATE REVIEW  

Fertility tracker Glow fixes bug that exposed users’ personal data

European Court of Human Rights declares backdoored encryption is illegal

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