Congress Pushes TikTok Ban While TikTok Proposes to Sever U.S. Ops From ByteDance

The Guardian hit by likely ransomware attack, Okta hacked in latest security incident, Hackers demand $2.25 from Nio, Taxis were hacked at Kennedy, ThyssenKrupp fights cyber incident, much more

Midterm Elections Targeting by Foreign Operatives Was Limited in Scope, Still Alarming

FBI warns of youth sextortion, BlackCat/ALPHV publishes data from Events D.C. cyberattack, Play ransomware gang claims credit for German hotel group attack, Apple fixes Achilles flaw, much more

Fortnite Creator to Pay $520M for Violating Children's Privacy Law, Tricking Players

Hacker claims stolen InfraGard database is no longer for sale, Google to add E2E for Workspace Gmail, Glupteba botnet is back, SpyFone is back with a new name, GitHub expands secrets scanning, more

Best Infosec-Related Long Reads of the Week, 12/17/22

How Russia's cyber operations in Ukraine failed to meet expectations, Telehealth organizations are sharing users' sensitive data with Big Tech companies, A forgotten chapter in tech crime history Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and paid subscribers this weekly digest of long-form infosec pieces and related

Best Infosec-Related Long Reads of the Week, 12/17/22

How Russia's cyber operations in Ukraine failed to meet expectations, Telehealth organizations are sharing users' sensitive data with Big Tech companies, A forgotten chapter in tech crime history

Meta Barred Seven Companies Involved in Surveillance-for-Hire Activities

Meta said it disrupted more than 200 networks engaged in inauthentic behavior, NIST says retire SHA-1, New botnet takes down Minecraft serves with DDoS, Russian cities face GPS disruption, much more

'Operation Power Off' Took Down 50 DDoS Booter Services, Seven Admins Arrested

Senate passes bill to ban TikTok from gov't devices, 75% of critical infrastructure facilities have severe unpatched vulnerabilities, Victoria fire rescue likely struck by ransomware attack, much more

Suspected Chinese Hacking Group Exploited a Flaw in Citrix Gear to Spy on Targets

Cuba ransomware gang used signed Microsoft drivers, Apple patched actively exploited zero-day flaw, India blames hospital attack on China, InfraGard member database is for sale on dark web, much more

Fortinet Urges Customers to Patch Actively Exploited SSL-VPN Vulnerability

Threat actor leak reveals new Uber breach, Recently leaked Twitter data is from 2021, LockBit hits California finance department, Rackspace hit with two lawsuits over recent ransomware attack, more

Oz's Telstra Apologizes for 'Misalignment' Exposing 130,000 Customers' Data

Local U.S. government networks were targeted by Iranian hacking group Cobalt Mirage, N. Korean hacking group tries to trick influential people to write reports, Pwn2Own pays nearly $1 mil., more

Best Infosec-Related Long Reads of the Week, 12/10/22

Protecting society from spyware, The world of spyware maker Altrnativ, Spyware is out of control, Women rule at MI6, Lessons learned from the Uber breach, Could security firms become military targets?

Best Infosec-Related Long Reads of the Week, 12/10/22

Protecting society from spyware, The world of spyware maker Altrnativ, Spyware is out of control, Women rule at MI6, Lessons learned from the Uber breach, Could security firms become military targets? Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and paid subscribers this weekly digest of long-form infosec pieces and related