Posts for category: Global Weekly Executive Summaries

Russia Attacks Ukraine With RAT

Executive Summary On October 17, 2024, the Cisco Talos Intelligence Group reported that a Russian APT group named RomCom (UAT-5647) had been infiltrating and attacking Ukrainian and Polish entities ...

North Korea: Stealing Crypto Through Zero-Day

Executive Summary On Wednesday, October 23, 2024, the Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky unveiled an update on a North Korean APT group nicknamed ‘Lazarus’ that has been accused of using a ...

AI in APT Attacks

Executive Summary On Friday, October 11, 2024, the creators of ChatGPT, OpenAI, announced in their October threat report that they had disrupted more than 20 cyber and covert influence operations ...

An APT Spies on Russia

Executive Summary   On Monday, October 7, 2024, the Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky unveiled an update on the Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group nicknamed ‘Awaken Likho’ ...

Election Interference: Iranian Hackers Indicted

Executive Summary: On Friday, September 26, 2024, the United States Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced the indictment of three Iranian hackers, living in Iran, on charges of  ‘Material ...

Denmark Faces Largest Cybersecurity Incident to Date

Denmark Faces Largest Cybersecurity Incident to Date Executive Summary: In November, SektorCERT, a Denmark-based non-profit cybersecurity center for critical sectors, released a publication report ...

Defense Contractor, Japan Aviation Electronics, Falls Victim to a Cyber Attack

Executive Summary: Japan Aviation Electronics (JAE), a prominent aerospace and electronics manufacturer and defense contractor, has recently become the target of a cyber-attack. The attack, which ...

North Korea Infiltrates Remote US Jobs to Fund Weapons

Executive Summary: The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and The Department of Justice (DOJ) have uncovered a sophisticated operation involving North Korea deploying thousands of IT workers to ...

Anonymous Sudan Targets Israel’s Critical Infrastructure

Executive Summary: The Russian-affiliated hacktivist group Anonymous Sudan has recently pledged solidarity with Hamas, considering the conflict occurring in Israel and Palestine. This affiliation ...

ALPHV: Hackers Reveal Details of MGM Cyber Attack

Executive Summary In September 2023, MGM Resorts, a prominent hotel and casino chain, faced a cyber attack launched by hacker groups ALPHV and Scattered Spider. The hacker groups used social ...