8/28/2024

~ The Cyber Beat
Intel Officials Say They Anticipate More Hacking Attempts as U.S. Election Nears

Notorious Iranian APT33 (aka Peach Sandstorm) Hackers Have Been Targeting the Space Industry With a New Backdoor

Iran’s APT42 (aka Charming Kitten) Operated Fake Human-Resources Firm to Root Out Unfriendly Spies, Researchers Say

Iranian UNC757 (aka Pioneer Kitten) Hackers Work With Ransomware Gangs to Extort Breached Orgs

South Korean Spies Exploit WPS Office Zero-Day

Microsoft Hosts a Security Summit but No Press, Public Allowed

Employee Arrested for Locking Windows Admins Out of 254 Servers in Extortion Plot

Google Increases Chrome Bug Bounty Rewards up to $250,000

U.S. Offers $2.5 Million Reward for Hacker Linked to Angler Exploit Kit

Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Was Wooed and Targeted by Governments

Telegram Repeatedly Refuses to Join Child Protection Schemes

1 in 10 Minors Say Their Friends Use AI to Generate Nudes of Other Kids, Survey Finds

Hundreds of LLM Servers Expose Corporate, Health & Other Online Data

‘Store Now, Decrypt Later’: U.S. Leaders Prep for Quantum Cryptography Concerns

Colorado Contacted Pac-12 About Potential Data Breach Before Loss to Oregon

‘Malfunction’ at Dutch Defense Ministry Datacenter Causing Mass Disruption

Dick’s Sporting Goods Discloses Unauthorized Third-Party Access to Info, Including Some Confidential Data

Seattle-Tacoma Airport Deals With Delays Five Days After Detecting Cyberattack

Play Ransomware Hackers Claim Attack on U.S. Manufacturer Microchip Technology

Norfolk (UK) Poultry Farm Banham Poultry Hit by Cyber-Attack

Essex (UK) Infant School Canvey Island Infant School Hit by Cyber Attack

LummaC2 Infostealer Resurfaces With Obfuscated PowerShell Tactics

PoorTry Windows Driver Evolves Into a Full-Featured EDR Wiper

BlackByte Ransomware Exploits VMware ESXi Flaw in Latest Attack Wave

Attackers Exploit Critical Atlassian Confluence Flaw for Cryptojacking

CCTV Zero-Day Exposes Critical Infrastructure to Mirai Botnet

Critical WPML Plugin Flaw Exposes WordPress Sites to Remote Code Execution

CISA Flags Critical Apache OFBiz Flaw Amid Active Exploitation Reports

Fortra Issues Patch for High-Risk FileCatalyst Workflow Security Vulnerability

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