Spain fires intelligence chief amid phone hacking scandals

Spain’s government fired the director of the country’s top intelligence agency Tuesday following the hacking of politicians’ cellphones, including the devices of the prime minister and several supporters of the Catalonia region’s secession. The National Intelligence Center, or CNI, has Read More …

U.S. Government Attributes Cyberattacks on SATCOM Networks to Russian State-Sponsored Malicious Cyber Actors

CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have updated the joint cybersecurity advisory, Strengthening Cybersecurity of SATCOM Network Providers and Customers, originally released March 17, 2022, with U.S. government attribution to Russian state-sponsored malicious cyber actors. The United States Read More …

Cybersecurity Trends in 2022

By Eyal Dorfman Cybersecurity has become a watchword of the 2020s. With the boom in work-from-home sparked by the global health crisis, alongside the ever-evolving role of technology in our daily lives, robust cybersecurity has become a cornerstone of how Read More …

Ukraine warns of “chemical attack” phishing pushing stealer malware

Ukraine’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) is warning of the mass distribution of Jester Stealer malware via phishing emails using warnings of impending chemical attacks to scare recipients into opening attachments. As the war between Russia and Ukraine continues, the Read More …

It costs just $7 to rent DCRat to backdoor your network

A budget-friendly remote access trojan (RAT) that’s under active development is selling on underground Russian forums for about $7 for a two-month subscription, according to BlackBerry researchers today. The backdoor Windows malware, dubbed DCRat or DarkCrystal RAT, was released in Read More …

Exploits created for critical F5 BIG-IP flaw – install patch immediately

Security researchers are warning F5 BIG-IP admins to immediately install the latest security updates after creating exploits for a recently disclosed critical CVE-2022-1388 remote code execution vulnerability. Last week, F5 disclosed a new critical remote code execution in BIG-IP networking Read More …