According to researchers suspected Chinese hackers used two previously undiscovered software flaws to break into a US-based research organization last month as part of a persistent spying campaign | @CNNcnn.com/2024/01/10/pol… Active Exploitation of Two Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in Ivanti Connect Secure VPN | @Volexityvolexity.com/blog/2024/01/1…

Joint Statement by the Cyber Unified Coordination Group (UCG), composed of the FBI, CISA, and ODNI with support from NSA: "This work indicates that an APT actor, likely Russian in origin, is responsible..." cisa.gov/news/2021/01/0… Report on Russian Cyber Units (Congressional Research Service): beta.documentcloud.org/documents/2044… | Collectively, these units are sometimes referred to as APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) 28, Fancy Bear, Voodoo Bear, Sandworm, and Tsar Team.

Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office Seizes Two Domain Names Purporting to be Websites of Biotechnology Companies Developing Treatments for Covid-19 #becybersmart | justice.gov/usao-md/pr/mar… The FBI, HHS-OIG, and CMS have received complaints of scammers using the public’s interest in COVID-19 vaccines to obtain personally identifiable information (PII) and money through various schemes. #becybersmart fbi.gov/news/pressrel/…

RT @arstechnica | SolarWinds hackers have a clever way to bypass multi-factor authentication arstechnica.com/information-te… Thought I'd list a series of reports from various cybersecurity companies in the hope it will assist...

Did you know... "The Embassy of Russia in the USA" has a Facebook and Twitter account? facebook.com/RusEmbUSA/post… and

https://twitter.com/RusEmbUSA/status/1338330751067172866

. A Zebra in Gopher’s Clothing: Russian APT Uses COVID-19 Lures to Deliver Zebrocy intezer.com/blog/research/…

“The compromise of SolarWinds’ Orion Network Management Products poses unacceptable risks to the security of federal networks,” said CISA Acting Director Brandon Wales. cisa.gov/news/2020/12/1… “The compromise of SolarWinds’ Orion Network Management Products poses unacceptable risks to the security of federal networks,” said CISA Acting Director Brandon Wales. | Mitigate SolarWinds Orion Code Compromise (CISA): cyber.dhs.gov/ed/21-01/

When you have numerous cyber organizations discussing the Egregor threat actor...it's time to pay attention. @cybereason, @LabsSentinel, @GroupIB_GIB, and @digitalshadows Egregor: The New Ransomware Variant to Watch | Digital Shadows digitalshadows.com/blog-and-resea… via @digitalshadows