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Weekly Top Ten Cybersecurity Stories– 4.8.2022

WEEKLY TOP TEN | APRIL 8, 2022 17:54 GMT

Our Threat Operations and Intelligence team compiles a daily digest of new cybersecurity threats from around the Internet. This top 10 has been culled from the 40+ unique stories we found relevant over the week, ranked by highest risk:

  1. Cicada APT Conducting Widespread Cyber Espionage Campaign, Deploying High Complexity Custom Malware and Loaders
    https://symantec-enterprise-blogs.security.com/blogs/threat-intelligence/cicada-apt10-china-ngo-government-attacks
  2. Mailchimp Reports Breach of Hundreds of Emails After Attackers Use Credential Theft to Compromise Internal Tool, Warns of Phishing Attacks
    https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-breach-mailchimps-internal-tools-to-target-crypto-customers/
  3. Threat Actors Like LAPSUS$, APT29 And Others Using “Prompt Bombing” To Defeat Push-Based MFA
    https://www.wired.com/story/multifactor-authentication-prompt-bombing-on-the-rise/
  4. Researchers Discover Denonia Cryptominer Malware Targeting AWS Lambda Cloud Environment, Warn of Growth in Cloud-focused Malware Attacks
    https://www.cadosecurity.com/cado-discovers-denonia-the-first-malware-specifically-targeting-lambda/
  5. UK Intelligence Reporting Uptick in Russian Cyberattacks Against NATO and Eastern Europe Amidst Stalling Ukraine War
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/01/russia-ukraine-cyberwar
  6. Dragos Assess With High Confidence That The Biggest Weakness In European Industrial Operations, Makes Other Key Findings
    https://www.dragos.com/blog/industry-news/assessing-threats-to-european-industrial-infrastructure/
  7. PEAR (PHP Extension and Application Repository) Framework for Reusable PHP Components Discovered to Have Supply Chain Attack Enabling Flaws
    https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/129797/hacking/pear-php-critical-flaws.html
  8. Analysis by Intel471 on Conti’s Leaked Chatlogs and Playbook Show Increasingly IT Company-like Behavior Patterns
    https://intel471.com/blog/conti-leaks-ransomware-development
  9. US Department of Justice Announces A Disruption to the Sandworm APT-linked Cyclops Blink Botnet
    https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/129911/cyber-warfare-2/us-disrupts-cyclops-blink-botnet.html
  10. US Treasury Department and Germany Federal Police Shutdown DarkWeb Hydra Marketplace In Long-Running Cooperative Campaign
    https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/129880/cyber-crime/us-treasury-sanctioned-hydra-market.html
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