Blackbyte's new exfiltration tool. Hijacking student accounts for BEC. Zhora calls Russia's cyber campaigns a failure. OldGremlin ransomware is an outlier.

Published: Oct. 21, 2022, 8:30 p.m.

Blackbyte's new exfiltration tool. Hijacking student accounts for BEC. Zhora calls Russia's cyber campaigns a failure. Caleb Barlow explores new thinking for incident response. Our guest is Jon Hencinski of Expel, tracking the latest threat trends. OldGremlin ransomware is an outlier.\n\nFor links to all of today's stories check out our CyberWire daily news briefing:\nhttps://thecyberwire.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/11/203\n\nSelected reading.\nExbyte: BlackByte Ransomware Attackers Deploy New Exfiltration Tool (Symantec)\nHijacking Student Accounts to Launch BEC-Style Attacks (Avanan)\nThis sneaky kind of cybercrime rules them all (Washington Post)\nRussia Failing to Reach Cyber War Goals, Ukrainian Official Says (Meritalk)\xa0\nEU supports cybersecurity in Ukraine with over \u20ac10 million - EU NEIGHBOURS east (EU NEIGHBOURS east)\xa0\nGremlins\u2019 prey, secrets, and dirty tricks: the ransomware gang OldGremlin set new records (Group-IB)\xa0\nOldGremlin hackers use Linux ransomware to attack Russian orgs (BleepingComputer)\nOldGremlin, which targets Russia, debuts new Linux ransomware (Computing) It is one of the few ransomware groups in the world that prefer to target Russian organisations, but this may change experts advise\nMore Russian Organizations Feeling Ransomware Pain (Bank Info Security)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices