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Microsoft has confirmed that recent outages to its popular services, including Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, and cloud computing platform Azure, were caused by a DDoS attack by a threat actor that the company tracks as Storm-1359.

Also known as Anonymous Sudan, Storm-1359 was first detected in January, targeting organizations and government agencies with DDoS attacks and efforts to exfiltrate data. The threat actor was initially assumed to be a “hacktivist” group protesting a controversial outfit at the Melbourne Fashion Week but has since been linked to the Russian state, according to several media reports.

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The Active Adversary Playbook 2022

June 7, 2022 0 Comments active adversary, artifacts, attack tools, cobalt strike, Cryptomining, cyberattacks, cyberthreats, dwell time, Exploit, featured, initial access broker, malware delivery system, mitre, proxylogon, proxyshell, Ransomware, Ransomware as a Service, security operations, sophos rapid response, vulnerability

Credit to Author: Tilly Travers| Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2022 11:02:43 +0000

Cyberattacker behaviors, tactics and tools seen on the frontline of incident response during 2021

ComputerWorld Independent

How Russia’s invasion of Ukraine affected the cyber threat landscape

March 30, 2022 0 Comments cyberattacks

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last month and consequential sanctions against the Kremlin, the threat of cyberattacks in the U.S. and abroad has been looming. While the threat of attacks on critical infrastructure has increased, it hasn’t escalated to the all-out cyberwar that some were expecting. CSO Online senior writer Lucian Constantin joins Juliet to discuss how the cyber threat landscape has evolved as a result of the war in Ukraine and what organizations can do to increase their cyber incident defenses. For more on this topic, check out this article from CSO Online: Conti gang says it's ready to hit critical infrastructure in support of Russian government: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3651498/conti-gang-says-its-ready-to-hit-critical-infrastructure-in-support-of-russian-government.html

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SMBs lack resources to defend against cyberattacks, plus pay more in the aftermath

October 31, 2019 0 Comments Business, cyberattacks, malware, medium businesses, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ransomware, small businesses, smb, Social networks

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 21:41:35 +0000

We take a look at the top challenges and threats to SMBs today, and recommend ways they can easily shore up their defenses.

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Russian pleads guilty in massive JPMorgan hacking scheme

September 26, 2019 0 Comments andrei tyurin, breach, cyberattacks, data loss, gery shalon, guilty plea, Hacking, joshua samuel aaron, jpmorgan, Law & order, pump and dump, russia, securities fraud, security threats, ziv orenstein

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 10:27:06 +0000

Andrei Tyurin is the first to be convicted in one of the largest thefts of customer data from a single US financial institution in history.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/tqRY012oxXA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>