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 Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and paid subscribers this weekly digest of long-form infosec pieces

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

Twitter Tailspins After Privacy and Security Executives Bolt, Fake Verified Accounts Soar

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

Egyptian Government's Climate Conference App Sparks Hacking Fears Among Westerners

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

Election Day 2022 Saw Only Minor DDoS Attacks That Did Not Affect Voting Integrity

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

DOJ Seizes Nearly $4 Billion in Bitcoin From Silk Road Thief

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

Security Fears Over Blue Check Purchases Intensify as Musk Flounders at Twitter

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

Best Infosec-Related Long Reads of the Week, 11/5/22

'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

Best Infosec-Related Long Reads of the Week, 11/5/22

'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

Microsoft Will Extend $100 Million More to Ukraine to Help With Cybersecurity, Technology

Criminal hackers responsible for Denmark train breakdown, Finland charges man who extorted therapy patients , Qatar operated massive surveillance op against FIFA officials, much more

TikTok Tells EU Users That Staff in China, Other Countries Can Access User Data

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

Ransomware Payments Made Though U.S. Banks Doubled to $1.2 Billion in 2021

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