Consensus on the Viasat hack: Russia did it. Kaspersky remains under investigation. The Nerbian RAT is out. NPM dependencies exploited, but to what end? Advisories from CISA and its partners.

Published: May 11, 2022, 8:15 p.m.

There\u2019s international consensus on the cyberattack against Viasat. Kaspersky remains under investigation. The Nerbian RAT is out. NPM dependencies are exploited, but to what end? Caleb Barlow examines Russia\u2019s future on the internet. Our guest is Deepen Desai from Zscaler with the latest phishing research. And new advisories from CISA and its partners.\nFor links to all of today's stories check out our CyberWire daily news briefing:\nhttps://thecyberwire.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/11/91\n\nSelected reading.\nNerbian RAT Using COVID-19 Themes Features Sophisticated Evasion Techniques (Proofpoint)\nNPM dependency confusion hacks target German firms (ReversingLabs)\nnpm Supply Chain Attack Targeting Germany-Based Companies (JFrog)\nAdminer in Industrial Products (CISA)\nEaton Intelligent Power Protector (CISA)\xa0\nEaton Intelligent Power Manager Infrastructure (CISA)\xa0\nEaton Intelligent Power Manager (CISA)\nAVEVA InTouch Access Anywhere and Plant SCADA Access Anywhere (CISA)\xa0\nMitsubishi Electric MELSOFT GT OPC UA (CISA)\xa0\nCISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog (CISA)\xa0\nAlert (AA22-131A) Protecting Against Cyber Threats to Managed Service Providers and their Customers (CISA)\nProtecting Against Cyber Threats to Managed Service Providers and their Customers (CISA)\nRussia downed satellite internet in Ukraine -Western officials (Reuters)\xa0\nUS and its allies say Russia waged cyberattack that took out satellite network (Ars Technica)\xa0\nWestern powers blame Russia for Ukraine satellite hack (The Record by Recorded Future)\xa0\nRussian cyber operations against Ukraine: Declaration by the High Representative on behalf of the European Union (European Council)\xa0\nAttribution of Russia\u2019s Malicious Cyber Activity Against Ukraine - United States Department of State (United States Department of State)\xa0\nU.S. Government Attributes Cyberattacks on SATCOM Networks to Russian State-Sponsored Malicious Cyber Actors (CISA)\nRussia behind cyber-attack with Europe-wide impact an hour before Ukraine invasion (GOV.UK)\nEstonia joins the statement of attribution on cyberattacks against Ukraine (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Estonia)\xa0\nStatement on Russia\u2019s malicious cyber activity affecting Europe and Ukraine (Canada.ca)\xa0\nAttribution to Russia for malicious cyber activity against European networks (Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade)\xa0\nRussia hacked an American satellite company one hour before the Ukraine invasion (MIT Technology Review)\xa0\nNSA Probing Reach of Software From Russia\u2019s Kaspersky in US Systems (Bloomberg)\xa0\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices