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2024.11.12.News You Should Know

Tue, 12 Nov 2024 12:17:02 -0600

GeoPolitics

China’s Volt Typhoon breached Singtel, reports say • The Register - Volt Typhoon reportedly breached Singapore Telecom over the summer. Highlighting why Cyber Threat Intelligence can at times be beneficial for more advanced orgs.

N Korea may receive tech in exchange for military support • The Register - DPRK has provided around 10,000 troops to Putin’s war in Ukraine. After DPRK successfully conducted a 90 minute missile flight the US and its allies are starting to wonder exactly what Pyongyang got in exchange for those troops.

2024.10.29.News You Should Know

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 12:29:51 -0500

Breaches

‘Satanic’ data thief hits 350M Hot Topic shoppers • The Register - HotTopic, Torrid, and Lunchbox shoppers (around 350m) of them have had a few bits of info stolen; names, emails, physical addresses, dates of birth, last four digits of customers’ credit cards, card types, hashed expiration dates, and account holder names. Likely just watch out for My Neighbor Totoro-themed phishes and you’ll be ok.

2024.10.22.News You Should Know

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 12:25:46 -0500

Politics

World

Iran

U.S. and Allies Warn of Iranian Cyberattacks on Critical Infrastructure in Year-Long Campaign Iranian hackers act as brokers selling critical infrastructure access - US and Allies are warning that Iran has ran a year long campaign to break into water, waste-water, electrical plants, government, healthcare, and telecom systems to serve as an Initial Access Broker, selling credentials to other nations, threat actors, etc… These IAB’s aren’t damaging the networks, simply staging an maintaining a presence on the network until it can be sold or made useful.

2024.10.08.News You Should Know

Tue, 08 Oct 2024 13:18:49 -0500

Mobile News

Google Adds New Pixel Security Features to Block 2G Exploits and Baseband Attacks (thehackernews.com) - Google will now allow their Pixel phones to be configured to ignore 2G downgrade attacks caused by Stingrays (cell-site simulators) and other devices that emulate a cellular baseband (tower) controlled by their service provider. This will prevent attacks like those performed by Intellexa and Predator using the Triton malware. This will also prevent SMS Blasting which bypass carrier spam protections.