Ukraine’s Defense—and Hacktivists—Have Raised Over $4M in Crypto
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2022 17:07:00 +0000
Russia’s invasion into the country sparked a surge of crypto donations to resistance groups.
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Putin’s Nuclear Threat Sets the West on Edge
Credit to Author: Garrett M. Graff| Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2022 01:04:25 +0000
By promising a response “never seen” in history if other countries interfere in Ukraine, the Russian leader upended decades of relative stability.
Read MoreMSTICPy January 2022 hackathon highlights
Credit to Author: Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence Team| Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2022 17:00:00 +0000
In January 2022, MSTIC ran its inaugural hack month for the open-source Jupyter and Python Security Tools library, MSTICPy. This blog highlights some of the contributions.
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Read MoreGoogle and Microsoft accused of feeding smaller search engines spam ads
Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2022 12:50:15 +0000
Adtech researchers believe that Google and Microsoft are hoarding the best ads and flooding rival search engines with spam ads.
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Read MoreWindows is in Moscow’s crosshairs, too
Credit to Author: Preston Gralla| Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2022 03:00:00 -0800
Russia telegraphed its intentions to invade Ukraine well ahead of this week’s attack by massing nearly 200,000 soldiers along Ukraine’s borders, and by Vladimir Putin’s increasingly belligerent threats.
Behind the scenes, Russia was doing more than that, including dangerous cyberattacks launched against Ukraine. And as is typically the case in such attacks, Windows was the attack vector.
“We’ve observed destructive malware in systems belonging to several Ukrainian government agencies and organizations that work closely with the Ukrainian government, Tom Burt, Microsoft corporate vice president for customer security and trust, wrote in a blog post in mid-January. “The malware is disguised as ransomware but, if activated by the attacker, would render the infected computer system inoperable.” In a related technical post detailing how the malware works, Microsoft added: “These systems [under cyberattack] span multiple government, non-profit, and information technology organizations, all based in Ukraine.”
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Cyclops Blink malware: US and UK authorities issue alert
Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2022 15:38:34 +0000
US and UK authorities have attributed the newly found malware Cyclops Blink to the Russian state-sponsored Sandworm group.
The post Cyclops Blink malware: US and UK authorities issue alert appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
Read MoreYik Yak “cyberbullying”: What can be done?
Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2022 14:08:13 +0000
The new Yik Yak only spells trouble, they say. It’s because of anonymity, they say.
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