Second New ‘IsaacWiper’ Data Wiper Targets Ukraine After Russian Invasion

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A new data wiper malware has been observed deployed against an unnamed Ukrainian government network, a day after destructive cyber attacks struck multiple entities in the country preceding the start …

China-linked Daxin Malware Targeted Multiple Governments in Espionage Attacks

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A previously undocumented espionage tool has been deployed against selected governments and other critical infrastructure targets as part of a long-running espionage campaign orchestrated by China-linked threat actors since at …

Microsoft Finds FoxBlade Malware Hit Ukraine Hours Before Russian Invasion

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UPDATE: It’s worth noting that the malware Microsoft tracks as FoxBlade is the same as the data wiper that’s been denominated HermeticWiper (aka KillDisk). Microsoft on Monday disclosed that it …

Conti Ransomware Gang’s Internal Chats Leaked Online After Siding With Russia

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Days after the Conti ransomware group broadcasted a pro-Russian message pledging its allegiance to Vladimir Putin’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, an anonymous security researcher using the Twitter handle @ContiLeaks has …

100 Million Samsung Galaxy Phones Affected with Flawed Hardware Encryption Feature

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A group of academics from Tel Aviv University have disclosed details of now-patched “severe” design flaws affecting about 100 million Android-based Samsung smartphones that could have resulted in the extraction …

CISA adds recently disclosed Zimbra bug to its Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) expanded its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog to include a recently disclosed zero-day flaw in the Zimbra email platform citing evidence of active exploitation in …

Experts Create Apple AirTag Clone That Can Bypass Anti-Tracking Measures

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Cybersecurity researchers have managed to build a clone of Apple Airtag that circumvents the anti-stalking protection technology built into its Find My Bluetooth-based tracking protocol. The result is a stealth …

CISA Warns of High-Severity Flaws in Schneider and GE Digital’s SCADA Software

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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) last week published an industrial control system (ICS) advisory related to multiple vulnerabilities impacting Schneider Electric’s Easergy medium voltage protection relays. “Successful exploitation of …