A Russian state-sponsored threat actor has been observed targeting diplomatic and government entities as part of a series of phishing campaigns commencing on January 17, 2022. Threat intelligence and incident response firm Mandiant attributed the attacks to a hacking group tracked as APT29 (aka Cozy Bear), with some set of the activities associated with the […]
The recently identified vulnerability in the Log4j Java logging package has created headaches for security professionals around the world. 61% of organizations responding to the latest Neustar International Security Council (NISC) survey, conducted in January 2022, said they had fielded attacks targeting this vulnerability. An even greater share (75%) reported having been impacted by Log4j, […]
The U.S. intelligence community says that Russian-sponsored actors have been targeting defense contractors for at least the past two years and in some cases have gained access to sensitive information. In an alert released Wednesday, the FBI, National Security Agency (NSA) and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said they had observed “regular targeting” of […]
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