Italian police arrest 2 in defense data theft case

Police in Italy have arrested two people in connection with the hacking of Italian aerospace and electronics company Leonardo, the Interior Ministry announced on Saturday. The Leonardo group also has a cybersecurity division that counts NATO among its customers and Read More …

Kazakhstan government is intercepting HTTPS traffic in its capital

Under the guise of a “cybersecurity exercise,” the Kazakhstan government is forcing citizens in its capital of Nur-Sultan (formerly Astana) to install a digital certificate on their devices if they want to access foreign internet services. Once installed, the certificate Read More …

What did DeathStalker hide between two ferns?

DeathStalker is a threat actor who has been active starting 2012 at least, and we exposed most of his past activities in a previous article, as well as during a GREAT Ideas conference in August 2020. The actor draught our Read More …

TrickBot’s new module aims to infect your UEFI firmware

The developers of TrickBot have created a new module that probes for UEFI vulnerabilities, demonstrating the actor’s effort to take attacks at a level that would give them ultimate control over infected machines. With access to UEFI firmware, a threat Read More …

Phishing campaign targets organizations in COVID-19 vaccine cold chain

IBM’s cyber-security division says that hackers are targeting companies associated with the storage and transportation of COVID-19 vaccines using temperature-controlled environments — also known as the COVID-19 vaccine cold chain. The attacks consisted of spear-phishing emails seeking to collect credentials Read More …