Best Infosec-Related Long Reads for the Week, 11/18/23

The story of the Mirai creators, Laws needed to restrain data brokers, Fears of cyberwar are making things worse, Farewell to coding in the AI era, The deadly disinformation front in the Hamas war Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and paid subscribers this weekly digest of the best

Best Infosec-Related Long Reads for the Week, 11/18/23

The story of the Mirai creators, Laws needed to restrain data brokers, Fears of cyberwar are making things worse, Farewell to coding in the AI era, The deadly disinformation front in the Hamas war

Winter Vivern Threat Group Has Targeted Zimbra Email Servers Worldwide

Feds offer details on Scattered Spider, Israeli PD sentenced to over six years for hacking campaigns, FTC raps prison telecom provider for bad security, The wide impacts of Appin, much more

ALPHV/Black Cat Reported Victim MeridianLink to SEC for Failing to Disclose Data Breach

European phishing gang busted up, Healthcare outfit PJ&A reports breach affecting 9m patients, Pharmacy Truepill reports breach affecting 2.3m patients, Samsung hit by third breach, much more

FBI Dismantles IPStorm Botnet Proxy Network After Leader Strikes Plea Deal

Flaw revealed in crypto wallets holding $100m, Oz says US-UK pact made it a hacker target, Intel fixes flaw in modern CPUs, FBI struggles with Scattered Spider, MSFT fixes over 60 Windows flaws, more

Lockbit Claims ICBC Paid the Ransom Following Last Week's Attack

Google sues malware-purveying scammers who promote fake Bard downloads, Feds say Royal has hit 350 orgs, McLaren confirms 2.2m patients compromised, NCSC warns of AI ahead of elections, much more

Australian Port Operator Resumes Operations After Cyber Incident Shut It Down for Days

Attackers stole over $100 million from Poloniex exchange, Malaysian cops bust up BulletProftLink, Lockbit publishes Boeing data, Experian still plagued by authentication weaknesses, much more

Best Infosec-Related Long Reads for the Week, 11/11/23

Tokelau became the web's dark underworld, Oregon cops' surveillance apparatus lives on, Tool for small platforms to fight terrorism content, GOP fights to keep US in the dark, Inside fake Apple gear Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and paid subscribers this weekly digest of the

Best Infosec-Related Long Reads for the Week, 11/11/23

Tokelau became the web's dark underworld, Oregon cops' surveillance apparatus lives on, Tool for small platforms to fight terrorism content, GOP fights to keep US in the dark, Inside fake Apple gear

Ransomware Attack on ICBC Commercial Bank Disrupted Trades in US Treasury Market

Clop actors exploit zero day in SysAid, Charming Kitten targeted key Israeli sectors, 43 deepfake theft gang members arrested, Clop attacks exposed data on virtually all Maine residents, much more

Russia's Sandworm Attacked Ukrainian Power Utility During Missile Strikes

DDoS attacks may have caused ChatGPT outages, Sumo Logic's AWS account breached, Atlassian ups Confluence flaw to CVSS 10, Highly invasive malware in Trojanized code libraries, much more

Microsoft Offers Politicians, Campaigns Tools to Combat Deepfakes

DPRK BlueNorOff threat group targets Apple customers with new macOS malware. Chinese hackers have penetrated Cambodian gov't networks, Optus outage caused chaos, much more