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Phishing with Facebook Messenger accounts. Redfly cyberespionage targets a national grid. The exploit trade in the C2C underground market. Phishing attack exploits Baidu link. A repojacking vulnerability. A hacktivist auxiliary looks to its own interests. Ben Yelin marks the start of the Google antitrust trial. In our Industry Voices segment, Adam Bateman from Push Security explains how identities are the new perimeter.\xa0And MGM Resorts are dealing with a \u201ccybersecurity issue.\u201d\n\nFor links to all of today's stories check out our CyberWire daily news briefing:\nhttps://thecyberwire.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/12/174\n\nSelected reading.\nSponsor with batch-filed whiskers: Ballistic Bobcat\u2019s scan and strike backdoor (ESET)\xa0\nCharming Kitten's New Backdoor 'Sponsor' Targets Brazil, Israel, and U.A.E. (The Hacker News)\xa0\nIran's Charming Kitten Pounces on Israeli Exchange Servers (Dark Reading)\xa0\nIranian hackers break into networks of more than 30 companies in Israel (ynetnews)\xa0\n\u201cMrTonyScam\u201d \u2014 Botnet of Facebook Users Launch High-Intent Messenger Phishing Attack on Business Accounts (Guardio Labs, via Medium)\nFacebook Messenger phishing wave targets 100K business accounts per week (BleepingComputer)\xa0\nVietnamese Hackers Deploy Python-Based Stealer via Facebook Messenger (The Hacker News)\xa0\nRedfly: Espionage Actors Continue to Target Critical Infrastructure (Symantec)\nSales and Purchases of Vulnerability Exploits (Flashpoint)\nPhishing Attack Abuses Baidu Link Redirect, Cloudflare, and Microsoft (Vade)\nNew Exploit Puts Thousands of GitHub Repositories and Millions of Users at Risk (Checkmarx.com)\nAfter Microsoft and X, Hackers Launch DDoS Attack on Telegram (SecurityWeek)\nMGM Resorts shuts down some computer systems after cyber attack (Reuters)\xa0\nCybersecurity issue prompts computer shutdowns at MGM Resorts properties across US (AP News)\xa0\nMGM Resorts shuts down IT systems after cyberattack (BleepingComputer)\nMGM Resorts experiences 'cybersecurity issue' impacting operations and prompting investigation (Fox Business)\xa0\nMGM resorts says 'cybersecurity issue' may have widespread impact (NBC News)\xa0\nMGM Resorts blames 'cybersecurity issue' for ongoing outage (TechCrunch)\xa0\nFBI assisting in MGM cybersecurity investigation as slot machines, website, and emails rem (KSNV)\xa0\nMGM Resorts Says It Shut Down Some Systems Following Hack (Bloomberg)\xa0\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices