Attacks, Threats, and Vulnerabilities
SolarWinds: US and UK blame Russian intelligence service hackers for major cyberattack (ZDNet) US agencies NSA, FBI and CISA, along with the UK’s NCSC, accuse ‘Cozy Bear’ Russian APT group of campaigns against SolarWinds. Organisations are urged to patch the five VPN and cloud vulnerabilities being exploited in ongoing attacks.
Russia hits out at UK support for US sanctions over hacking (the Guardian) UK’s release of details on Russian cyber-espionage ‘nothing more than an attempt to play along with’ US
The SolarWinds Hack Is Just the Beginning (Foreign Affairs) The United States must learn to live with cyber-espionage.
How the Kremlin provides a safe harbor for ransomware (Star Tribune) A global epidemic of digital extortion known as ransomware is crippling local governments, hospitals, school districts and businesses by scrambling their data files until they pay up. Law enforcement has been largely powerless to stop it.
Meet the Ransomware Gang Behind One of the Biggest Supply Chain Hacks Ever (Vice) A gang nicknamed Cl0p, FIN11, and TA505 has been hacking and extorting hundreds of companies for years.
NSA: Russian Hackers Exploiting VPN…
