CoinMarketCap: No Breach Despite 3.1M Email Address Leak

Jeremy Kirk • October 25, 2021

CoinMarketCap says it has found no evidence of a data beach despite the circulation of a list of 3.1 million email addresses that correlates with accounts on its service. Regardless of the source, the list would be useful for attackers to launch phishing attacks against those interested in cryptocurrency.

Critical Infrastructure Security

Accenture: Ransomware Attack Breached Proprietary Data

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Blockchain & Cryptocurrency

US DOJ: Global Darknet Sting Nabs 150 Suspects

Dan Gunderman • October 26, 2021

International law enforcement officials on Tuesday announced that some 150 suspects have been arrested globally for buying or selling illegal goods, following a 10-month sting operation, code name "Operation DarkHunTOR," targeting the dark web.

Business Continuity Management / Disaster Recovery

Groove Operators Reportedly Ask Peers to Attack US

Prajeet Nair • October 26, 2021

The operators behind Groove ransomware are calling on other extortion gangs to join forces to attack the U.S. public sector, according to chatter seen on underground forums, reports malware research organization vx-underground, citing a blog posted by the gang on a Russian site.

3rd Party Risk Management

Defending Against Open-Source Supply Chain Attacks

Anna Delaney • October 26, 2021

Findings from CyberTheory's 2021 Third Quarter Review indicate that criminals are exploiting the open-source supply chain, and those exploits are proving much more difficult to identify, defend and stop in terms of complexity and depth than we've seen before, says CyberTheory's director, Steve King.

Critical Infrastructure Security

Why Hive Attacks Are the Latest Menace to Healthcare Sector

Marianne Kolbasuk McGee • October 26, 2021

Several characteristics of the Hive ransomware group make the threat actor particularly menacing to its victims, which include healthcare sector targets, says Adam Meyers, vice president of intelligence at security firm CrowdStrike.

Critical Infrastructure Security

Forget Hacking Back: Just Waste Ransomware Gangs' Time

Mathew J. Schwartz • October 26, 2021

Who's been launching distributed denial-of-service attacks against ransomware operators' sites and cybercrime markets? Disrupting ransomware operations that rely on Tor-based data leak sites and payment portals for double extortion is an obvious move for cutting into their profits.

3rd Party Risk Management

Report: SolarWinds Hackers Targeting IT Supply Chain

Dan Gunderman • October 25, 2021

The actor behind the cyberattack targeting SolarWinds customers - Nobelium - is continuing its campaign to target the global IT supply chain, according to a new advisory from Microsoft, which says 140 resellers and tech service providers have been notified that they have been targeted by the group.

Blockchain & Cryptocurrency

DarkSide Transfers $7 Million Worth of Bitcoin

Prajeet Nair • October 25, 2021

Following an outage of the REvil - aka Sodinokibi - ransomware operation due to coordinated law enforcement efforts involving the U.S. and foreign partners, the operators behind DarkSide ransomware have moved bitcoin worth almost $7 million to multiple new wallets, making it more difficult to track.

3rd Party Risk Management

Case Study: Intrusion Prevention, Detection in the Cloud

Marianne Kolbasuk McGee • October 25, 2021

Chronic disease management firm Omada Health has been changing its approach to cloud intrusion prevention and detection, which is reducing time spent on investigating false positives, says the company's information security leader, Bill Dougherty.

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

New Bill Would Secure Government Contractors' Use of AI

Dan Gunderman • October 22, 2021

Two Senate leaders on Thursday introduced legislation that would form a working group charged with monitoring the security of AI data obtained by federal contractors. This body would also ensure that the data adequately protects national security and recognizes privacy rights, the lawmakers say.

Cybercrime

FIN7 Sets Up Fake Pentesting Company Site to Recruit Talent

Mihir Bagwe • October 22, 2021

Threat group FIN7 has set up a website posing as a security company to recruit talent, according to fraud intelligence company Gemini Advisory. The aim of the scam was to lure security researchers who could help the group with penetration testing-related activities to enable ransomware attacks.

Blockchain & Cryptocurrency

Malicious Packages Disguised as JavaScript Libraries Found

Prajeet Nair • October 22, 2021

Researchers at open-source software firm Sonatype have uncovered multiple malicious packages that disguise themselves as legitimate JavaScript libraries on npm registries to launch cryptominers on Windows, macOS and Linux machines.

Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR)

Forrester Report: Key Questions to Ask XDR Vendors

Anna Delaney • October 22, 2021

The current state of the XDR market is a "chaotic jumble of different features," according to Forrester analyst Allie Mellon, who has authored a new study to identify the top XDR providers in the industry: The Forrester New Wave: Extended Detection And Response (XDR) Providers, Q4 2021.