Best Infosec-Related Long Reads of the Week, 11/12/22
An exposé on the hack-for-hire industry, 'Cyber slaves' run Cambodia's scam mills, WeChat users go to great lengths to get their banned accounts back, How Canada took down Vachon-Desjardins
An exposé on the hack-for-hire industry, 'Cyber slaves' run Cambodia's scam mills, WeChat users go to great lengths to get their banned accounts back, How Canada took down Vachon-Desjardins
GRU adopts new cyberwarfare tactics in Ukraine, Oz cops say Russia is behind Medibank attack, One-third of Android apps downloaded by Uyghurs contain malware, much more
Cyprus launches spyware probe, Medibank’s hackers ask for $10 million ransom, ABB patches a high-severity OT security flaw, Massive SEO poisoning campaign is underway, Twitter battles fakes, more
Ransomware attackers start leaking Medibank data, Microsoft issues fixes for six zero-days, New options needed for cybersecurity insurance, New malicious Chrome browser extension steals data, more
Ransomware hackers threaten to release Medibank's data, EU says Pegasus spyware runs rampant among member nations, Greece bans the sale of spyware following scandal, more
Russia's IRA has a new disinformation campaign ahead of Tuesday's elections, Colorado cops bust man for tampering with voting machines, Medibank won't pay hackers, much more
'Michael Jordan of the dark web' made a serious security mistake that led to his downfall, Psychedelic decriminalization poses serious privacy risks in CO, Election deniers reign supreme in PA Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and paid subscribers this weekly digest of long-form infosec pieces and
'Michael Jordan of the dark web' made a serious security mistake that led to his downfall, Psychedelic decriminalization poses serious privacy risks in CO, Election deniers reign supreme in PA
Criminal hackers responsible for Denmark train breakdown, Finland charges man who extorted therapy patients , Qatar operated massive surveillance op against FIFA officials, much more
Osaka hospital crippled by ransomware attack, 100 local election systems still waiting for CISA's tests ahead of midterms, A hacker stole $3m from Skyward Finance, Vitali Kremez found dead, much more
OpenSSL flaws not as severe as predicted, Twitter disrupted three China-based election influence operations, Threat actors stole 130 code repos from Dropbox, Hackers stole $28m from Deribit, more
FTC targets Chegg for data security violations, Race is underway to defend OpenSSL, Malicious Android apps discovered dropping banking trojans, German copper giant hit with cyberattack, much more