Risky Biz News: Doppelganger gets a kick in the butt from Uncle Sam
In other news: CISA drops online content moderation; Iran paid hackers a $3 million ransom; Russia tries to infiltrate Ukraine's military mobile apps.
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Using Exploits to Steal Exploits Is as Old as Time
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Risky Biz News: White House recommends prioritizing RPKI ROAs
In other news: Spamouflage returns for the US elections; TfL tells staff to work from home after cyberattack; Russia wants to block foreign web crawlers.
Risky Biz News: US charges swatters who terrorized government officials
In other news: City of Columbus sues security researcher; Brazil bans Twitter; Poland charges official in Pegasus spyware scandal.
Risky Biz News: Iranian APT moonlights as access broker and ransomware helper
In other news: APT42 hunts regime traitors; France and the UAE hacked Durov's phone in 2017; APT29 suspected of using same exploits as spyware vendors NSO and Intellexa.
Durov Bailed and Must Stay in France, Report to Police
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Risky Biz News: Volt Typhoon returns with a new zero-day
In other news: Pentagon runs Tinder info-op; Seattle airport still crippled by major cyberattack; evolved malware can wipe security tools off a victim's disk.
Risky Biz News: Digital wallet apps, the new frontier for card fraud
In other news: Telegram CEO arrested in France; identity of a major hacker leaks from private CrowdStrike report; Meta takes down APT42 WhatsApp accounts.
Risky Biz News: New Android malware evolves fraud tactics with NFC cloning
In other news: Karakurt member faces the music; US semiconductor company disrupted by cyberattack; Xiaomi deployed patch before hacking contest, removed it after.
Australia's National ID System Will Be Awful... And Then Great
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Risky Biz News: After botched comms, there's now a timeline for the Azure mandatory MFA rollout
In other news: US government confirms Iran hacked Trump campaign; CISA to get a new fancy HQ; FAA prepares cyber rules.
Risky Biz News: Hardware backdoors found in Chinese key cards
In other news: US House wants TP-Link investigated as a national security threat; major RCE bug discovered in OpenBMC; OpenAI takes down Iranian influence op.
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Risky Biz News: Ransom campaign hits cloud servers
In other news: Iranians also targeted the Harris campaign; Germany wants to limit Windows kernel access; 2024 set to be highest-grossing year for ransomware.
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Fool Me Once... Iran's Hack and Leak Falls Flat
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Risky Biz News: FBI seizes Dispossessor ransomware servers
In other news: US charges Angler exploit kit member; hacker leaks upcoming Netflix shows; UK explores nation-wide cyber-deception network.
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Risky Biz News: Trump campaign points finger at Iranian hackers for documents leak
In other news: Another DPRK laptop farmer detained in the US; Trend Micro explores sale; soccer club gets BECed for transfer fee.
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Risky Biz News: State Dept puts $10 million bounty on IRGC-CEC hackers
In other news: Windows downgrade attack revealed at Black Hat; ICO fines contractor behind NHS ransomware attack; SEC drops MOVEit hack investigation.
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America's Leaky Data Rattles the US Intelligence Community
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Risky Biz News: Ransomware attack hits Olympic venues
In other news: CrowdStrike and Microsoft blame Delta for its prolonged outage; Las Vegas hotel raids the rooms of DEFCON attendees; DPRK hackers shift to construction firms.
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Risky Biz News: Crypto-wallet service seized for helping ransomware gangs launder stolen funds
In other news: DARPA launches program to convert C code to Rust; a Chinese APT hacks an ISP to hijack software updates; class-action lawsuits filed over massive 2.9 billion breach at background-check firm.
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Risky Biz News: Sparks fly when lawyers meet a certificate revocation
In other news: Shareholders sue CrowdStrike over IT outage; Greece absolves itself from PredatorGate scandal; two cyber-criminals included in major US-Russian prisoner swap.
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When Israeli National Security Trumps US Lawsuits
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Risky Biz News: NVD backlog unlikely to get addressed by September
In other news: The CrowdStrike lawsuits are coming; ESXi servers targeted in ransomware wave; crypto-exchange to "socialize" hack losses among all users.
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Risky Biz News: AMI Platform Key leak undermines Secure Boot on 800+ PC models
In other news: Google fixes email validation bypass; new threat actor goes after Selenium testing servers; CrowdStrike says 97% BSODed systems have recovered.