Best Infosec-Related Long Reads of the Week, 1/21/23
Infiltrating the LockBit gang, That funny feeling online chatbots can pass the Turing test, Time to start protecting submarine cables from threats, The meaningless advice to not pay ransoms
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Latest T-Mobile Breach Impacting 37 Million Customers Prompts FCC Probe
PayPal customers' data accessed in credential stuffing attacks, Ransomware attack forces KFC parent company to close 300 UK locations, Ransomware payments dropped 40% in 2022, much more
Feds Bust Russian Who Ran Bitzlato Crypto Exchange Which Aided Ransomware Attacks
600+ police orgs can access money transfer data, CERT-UA links attack on Ukrinform to Sandworm, Mailchimp was hacked again, Royal Mail restarts parcel exports, Sophos lays off 450, much more
Biden's Cybersecurity Strategy Includes Regulation, Hostile Network Disruption, Report
Hackers stole $415 million from FTX, Russia launched 2,194 cyberattacks on Ukraine in 2022, Torres asks CISA to probe air travel vulnerabilities, Nissan North America reports data breach, much more
Hackers Stole CircleCi Databases Using an Engineer's Stolen Privileges
Thousands of Norton LifeLock customers compromised, 24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual interrupted by security threat, $2.5 million recovered from Harmony breach, NFT God's wallet drained, much more
Best Infosec-Related Long Reads of the Week, 1/14/23
'Scambaiters' target scam call centers, Violated trust of Roomba's test version victims, Tracking down the Idaho killer, Restoring civil-military cyber normal normalcy, OECD rules for reading emails 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, 1/14/23
'Scambaiters' target scam call centers, Violated trust of Roomba's test version victims, Tracking down the Idaho killer, Restoring civil-military cyber normal normalcy, OECD rules for reading emails
LockBit Linked to Royal Mail Attack but Gang's Spokesperson Blames Other Threat Actors
European cops take down pig butchering call centers, SEC sues major law firm for details of Hafnium hack, Meta sues Voyager Labs for data scraping, Hackers target governments using Fortinet flaw, more
UK's Royal Mail Can't Send Mail Overseas Due to Severe Cyber Incident
Guardian confirms ransomware attack, Twitter says no evidence of breach, Ontario booze control board hit by cyber incident, Cisco warns of auth bypass bug, Gootkit SEO poisoning campaign, much more
New APT Group Dark Pink Steals Confidential Data From APAC Government, Military Bodies
Siemens PLC's serious flaw, Threema's many flaws, Microsoft's 98 new patches, Vice Society's BART files spill, Denmark banks DDoS'ed, Clear's murky vulnerabilities, APT's Fake Shagle app, much more
Supreme Court Lets WhatsApp Lawsuit Against Spyware Maker NSO Group Move Forward
German finance regulator says Godfather malware has attacked 400 finance apps, Thieves have exploited glaring security weakness in Experian website, Two dozen states have banned TikTok, more
Russian Cold River Hacking Team Targeted Three U.S. Nuclear Research Labs
Cybercriminals use ChatGPT to build hacking tools, FCC proposes telecoms report breaches immediately, Biden's cyber strategy contemplates regulation, First catastrophic cyber bond emerges, more