Zeljka Zorz

Okta names contractor involved in Lapsus$ gang’s attack
Okta has released additional details about the security incident caused by the Lapsus$ gang, and has named the contractor involved: Sitel. What happened? “Like many SaaS …

Internet crime in 2021: Investment fraud losses soar
Business email compromise/email account compromise scams still have the highest financial toll on victims, but investment fraud has also lead to massive losses last year, …

Microsoft and Okta confirm, detail impact of Lapsus$ gang’s attacks
Recent claims by the cyber extortion gang have been validated by Okta and Microsoft: Lapsus$ have managed to get their hands on some of Microsoft’s source code and have …

US critical infrastructure operators should prepare for retaliatory cyberattacks
US President Joe Biden has urged companies in critical infrastructure sectors to shore up their defenses against potential cyberattacks. The warning “Most of America’s …

Lapsus$ gang says it has breached Okta and Microsoft
After breaching NVIDIA and Samsung and stealing and leaking those companies’ propertary data, the Lapsus$ cyber extortion gang has announced that they have popped …

Attackers employ novel methods to backdoor French organizations
An advanced threat actor has been spotted using distinctive, novel methods to backdoor French entities in the construction, real estate, and government industries. How the …

The TTPs of Conti’s initial access broker
Automation might be the way to go for many things, but a recently published report by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) shows why targeted phishing campaigns …

Trickbot uses compromised MikroTik routers as C2 communication proxies
MikroTik routers are getting compromised to serve as communication proxies for Trickbot malware, to enable Trickbot-affected devices to communicate with their their C2 server …

Veeam fixes critical RCEs in backup solution (CVE-2022-26500, CVE-2022-26501)
Veeam Software has patched two critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-26500, CVE-2022-26501) affecting its popular Veeam Backup & Replication solution, which could be …

Financially motivated threat actors willing to go after Russian targets
As Ukrainian organizations are getting hit with yet another data-wiping malware, financially motivated threat actors are choosing sides and some of them are expressing their …

Kali Linux on bare-metal gets snapshotting functionality
The Offensive Security team has released Kali Unkaputtbar, a new feature that allows Kali Linux installed on bare-metal to make system snapshots automatically, thus enabling …

War in Ukraine: What type of cyber attacks can we expect next?
The cyber activities related to the ongoing war in Ukraine have run the gamut from wiper malware hitting organizations and the border control in Ukraine, DDoS attacks aimed at …
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