At a glance.
- Cyberattack suspected of causing rocket-attack false alarms in Israel.
- Risk surface assessments.
- Fitness app’s geolocation feature may be a privacy and security risk.
- ToddyCat APT is active in European and Asian networks.
- ICEFALL ICS vulnerabilities described, with advice and reactions.
- Fancy Bear sighted in Ukrainian in-boxes.
- CISA issues an updated version of its Cloud Security Technical Reference Architecture.
- Another warning of spyware in use against targets in Italy and Kazakhstan.
- Cyberespionage uses ransomware as misdirection.
- Lithuania’s NKSC warns of increased DDoS threat.
- Think tanks as targets.
- CISA’s tabletop exercises.
Cyberattack suspected of causing rocket-attack false alarms in Israel.
Sirens used to warn Israelis of rocket attacks sounded a false alarm in Israel last weekend. Haaretz reports that “Sirens sounded in Eilat and parts of Jerusalem Sunday night due to a cyberattack on local public address systems, Israel’s Home Front Command said on Monday, in what is being investigated as a possible Iranian attack.” Citing “diplomatic sources,” the Jerusalem Post emphasizes that the attribution is preliminary, and that the incident remains under investigation….
