Operations of the Intellexa Alliance behind the Predator spyware were noted by cybersecurity experts to have significantly dwindled in the months following sanctions imposed by the Biden administration and other crackdown efforts exposing its infrastructure, reports CyberScoop.
Malicious Android apps have been leveraged by Pakistan-linked hacking operation Transparent Tribe to facilitate the deployment of the CapraRAT spyware as part of a new surveillance campaign against gamers and weapons enthusiasts, reports The Hacker News.
Healthcare and malware, MoveIT, Chrome won't trust Entrust, the discovery of Volt Typhoon, & more on this episode of the Security Weekly News!
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Russian Amin Timovich Stigal has been indicted by the U.S. Justice Department for his alleged involvement in the WhisperGate wiper malware attack against Ukrainian critical infrastructure systems.
Security researchers say this case shows how potentially vulnerable organizations are when they depend on the security practices of open source maintainers.