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“Weekend Briefing” is a weekly newsletter sent to subscribers of The Readable every Friday. Our journalists select important news items from the previous week on topics ranging from privacy to policy development in cybersecurity, all to help you stay abreast of the latest breaking issues. Chinese state-sponsored hackers are increasingly targeting vulnerabilities in edge infrastructure […]
Seoul, South Korea ― Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) groups are focusing on vulnerabilities in edge infrastructure—such as virtual private networks (VPN), routers, and email gateways—rather than on weaknesses resulting from individual negligence, according to a security expert at Google Cloud. Luke McNamara, deputy chief analyst of Mandiant Intelligence at Google Cloud, disclosed the findings […]
Washington, D.C. — Cybersecurity officials from the U.S. federal government, as well as those from state and local governments, gathered this week in the nation’s capital to discuss shared security challenges. At the second annual State & Local Cybersecurity Conference hosted by Billington Cybersecurity, panelists emphasized the importance of collaboration between state, local and federal […]
The operator of Raccoon Stealer, who was out of action since the Russia-Ukraine War began, has recently been confirmed to have returned with an upgraded V2 version. The current V2 version is disguised as a cracked software installation file that was often used in the past V1 distribution. Source: S2W On March 25, 2022, the […]
RSA Conference 2022 ― San Francisco ― “Imagine that someone was to break into your house and stay for nine months. It is unthinkable in the real world, but in cyber this is the problem that we are up against,” said Tom Gillis during the opening keynotes at the RSA conference Monday. The senior vice […]
A user impersonating the operator of RaidForums, which was shut down in February of this year, has recently appeared with a scam campaign. About RaidForums RaidForums started in 2015 and ended in February of this year after seven years of operation. This forum was one of the largest forums where cybercriminals traded illegal data. Unlike […]
By Dain Oh, The Readable RSA Conference 2022 ― San Francisco ― While business email compromise (BEC) attacks are relatively less well known than ransomware attacks, they will soon dominate the threat landscape, an expert of threat intelligence (TI) said Monday. “It has a much higher return on investment, or ROI, than other types of […]
Hello! We are reporting from San Francisco and Silicon Valley for this week. While staying here for RSA conference 2022, we are delighted to deliver you five news, which were carefully selected by us. We will be back with RSA conference news in the coming week. Have a beautiful weekend! 1. South Korean Authorities Cooperate […]
We picked five stories for you. Have a great weekend! 1. Reporters Won a Victory Over Mandatory App Download Yoon Suk-yeol, the newly elected president of South Korea, ordered his presidential office not to coerce reporters into downloading a security application last Tuesday. It was a victory for reporters who argued that the app could […]
Cyber security company S2W recently published a report that explains the history of BlackGuard, a new info-stealer malware. This report is an extension of the report posted in April. The BlackGuard operator, who is active on the dark web under the nicknames “BlackGUARD07” and “blackteam007,” made the first promotion post in March 2021, but it […]
Tackling smart home hacks has emerged as one of the key promises made in local elections in South Korea. Bae Kook-hwan, the Democratic Party’s candidate for the Seongnam mayoral election, promised to protect personal data from smart home hacks. In a statement released to the press last Tuesday, Bae stressed that he would put an […]
