Cyberscoop
EU takes aim at Russia over 'Ghostwriter' hacking campaign against politicians, government officialsThe European Union formally blamed Russia on Friday, just ahead of this weekend’s German elections, for a hacking campaign targeting EU government officials and politicians. And the EU is threatening to take unspecified action. “The European Union will revert to this issue in upcoming meetings and consider taking further steps,” reads a statement from the…
Exposed ransomware negotiations shed light on cybercrime, but complicate things for victimsLess than 48 hours before the deadline for Iowa-based grain cooperative New Cooperative to pay the BlackMatter ransomware group’s demands, negotiations seemed to take an interesting turn. BlackMatter, which has threatened to leak sensitive data allegedly stolen from New Cooperative, ramped up those threats this week after claiming the company “violated our data recovery guidelines”…
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Weekly Briefs: Texas abortion clinics return to SCOTUS; law prof known for critical race theory work wins awardTexas abortion clinics seek SCOTUS review Abortion providers in Texas asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to consider whether their lawsuit challenging the state’s…
Best practices for integrating new tools into a law department’s portfolioAri Kaplan recently spoke with Oliver Round, managing counsel, product owner for contract lifecycle management and co-head of legal data management and advisory at BNY…
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Exchange/Outlook Autodiscover Bug Spills $100K+ Email PasswordsHundreds of thousands of email credentials, many of which double as Active Directory domain credentials, came through to credential-trapping domains in clear text.
TangleBot Malware Reaches Deep into Android Device FunctionsThe mobile baddie grants itself access to almost everything, enabling spying, data-harvesting, stalking and fraud attacks, among others.
Critical Cisco Bugs Allow Code Execution on Wireless, SD-WANUnauthenticated cyberattackers can also wreak havoc on networking device configurations.
Apple Patches 3 More Zero-Days Under Active AttackOne of the bugs, which affects macOS as well as older versions of iPhones, could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.