Cyberespionage, privateering, hacktivism and influence operations, in Ukraine, Russia, the Middle East, and elsewhere. Criminals need quality control, too. A new entry in CISAs KEV Catalog.

Published: Dec. 6, 2022, 9:15 p.m.

A Chinese cyberespionage campaign is believed to be active in the Middle East. Poor quality control turns ransomware into a wiper, and a typo crashes a cryptojacker. A large DDoS attack is reported to have hit a Russian state-owned bank. Privateers compromise Western infrastructure to stage cyberattacks. Cyber operations against national morale. A look at the Vice Society. Ben Yelin on the growing concerns over TicTok. Ann Johnson from Afternoon Cyber Tea speaks with Charles Blauner about the evolution of the CISO role. And CISA has added an entry to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog.\n\nFor links to all of today's stories check out our CyberWire daily news briefing:\nhttps://thecyberwire.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/11/232\n\nSelected reading.\nBackdoorDiplomacy Wields New Tools in Fresh Middle East Campaign (Bitdefender Labs)\xa0\nThe Story of a Ransomware Turning into an Accidental Wiper | FortiGuard Labs (Fortinet Blog)\xa0\nSyntax errors are the doom of us all, including botnet authors (Ars Technica)\xa0\nRussia's No. 2 bank VTB suffers largest DDoS in history (Computing)\xa0\nRussia compromises major UK and US organisations to attack Ukraine (Lupovis)\xa0\nRussia\u2019s online attacks target Ukrainians\u2019 feelings (POLITICO)\xa0\nVice Society: Profiling a Persistent Threat to the Education Sector (Unit 42)\nCISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog (CISA)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices