CyberScoop reports that German intelligence services have circulated an advisory warning that the Russian government threat group Berserk Bear is actively working against German industrial operations in the energy and water sectors. Berserk Bear was last mentioned in dispatches during 2018, when the US Government warned that Russian actors had been engaged in some preliminary reconnaissance of US infrastructure. Tageschau identifies the German intelligence services as the Federal Intelligence Service (BND), the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), and the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI). The warning doesn’t directly name the Russian government, but it prominently links, as evidence, to US documents that do just that, so the intended attribution isn’t seriously in question.
Two Android issues have surfaced. F-Secure warns that default configurations specific to regions also create region-specific security problems for “flagship Android devices.” It’s easy to assume that handsets with the same branding will be roughly interchangeable with respect to security, but that assumption, F-Secure says, is unwarranted: “customization done by third…
