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Elite hackers associated with Russia's military intelligence service have been linked to large-volume phishing campaigns aimed at hundreds of users in Ukraine to extract intelligence and influence public discourse related to the war. Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG), which is monitoring the activities of the actor under the name FROZENLAKE, said the attacks continue the "group's 2022 focus

U.K. and U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies have warned of Russian nation-state actors exploiting now-patched flaws in networking equipment from Cisco to conduct reconnaissance and deploy malware against targets. The intrusions, per the authorities, took place in 2021 and targeted a small number of entities in Europe, U.S. government institutions, and about 250 Ukrainian victims. The

This campaign, dubbed "Jaguar Tooth," is an example of a much broader trend of sophisticated adversaries targeting networking infrastructure to advance espionage objectives or pre-position for future destructive activity.

Researchers are warning about a dangerous wave of unwiped, secondhand core-routers found containing corporate network configurations, credentials, and application and customer data.

More than half of the enterprise routers researchers bought secondhand hadn’t been wiped, exposing sensitive info like login credentials and customer data.

Categories: News Categories: Ransomware Tags: LockBit Tags: ransomware Tags: Patrick Wardle Tags: macOS ransomware Tags: first Mac ransomware Tags: Azim Khodjibaev Tags: BleepingComputer Tags: Mark Stockley With plans to offer more ransomware, LockBit has just created a variant for macOS. But, as experts have pointed out, it's hardly ready for anything. (Read more...) The post LockBit ransomware on Mac: Should we worry? appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Learning how to break the latest AI models is important, but security researchers should also question whether there are enough guardrails to prevent the technology's misuse.

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Microsoft zero-days, dark web forum takedowns and Pentagon leaks on Discord in this week's newsletter.

Talos also alerted Lenovo that the clock’s hardcoded root password is weak and easily guessed or cracked.