Ransomware, doxxing, and data breaches, oh my! State fronts and cyber offensives.

Published: May 15, 2023, 8:15 p.m.

Discord sees a third-party data breach. Black Basta conducts a ransomware attack against technology company ABB. Intrusion Truth returns to dox APT41. Anonymous Sudan looks like a Russian front operation. Attribution and motivation of "RedStinger" remain murky. CISA summarizes Russian cyber offensives. Remote code execution exploits Ruckus in the wild. Our guest is Dave Russell from Veeam with insights on data protection. Matt O'Neill from the US Secret Service on their efforts to thwart email compromise and romance scams. And espionage by way of YouTube comments.\n\nFor links to all of today's stories check out our CyberWire daily news briefing:\nhttps://thecyberwire.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/12/93\n\nSelected reading.\nDiscord discloses data breach after support agent got hacked (Bleeping Computer)\nDiscord suffered a data after third-party support agent was hacked (Security Affairs)\nMultinational tech firm ABB hit by Black Basta ransomware attack (Bleeping Computer)\nBreaking: ABB confirms cyberattack; work underway to restore operations (ET CISO)\nBlack Basta conducts ransomware attack against Swiss technology company ABB (The CyberWire)\nThey dox Chinese hackers. Now, they\u2019re back. (Washington Post)\nWhat\u2019s Cracking at the Kerui Cracking Academy? (Intrusion Truth)\nPosing as Islamists, Russian Hackers Take Aim at Sweden (Bloomberg)\nAnonymous Sudan: Threat Intelligence Report (TrueSec)\nUncovering RedStinger - Undetected APT cyber operations in Eastern Europe since 2020 (Malwarebytes)\nRussian \u2018Red Stealer\u2019 cyberattacks target breakaway territories in Ukraine (Cybernews)\nRussia Cyber Threat Overview and Advisories (CISA)\nKnown Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog (CISA)\nCISA Adds Seven Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog (CISA)\n\ufeffCISA warns of critical Ruckus bug used to infect Wi-Fi access points (Bleeping Computer)\nSecurity Bulletins (Ruckus)\nROK union leaders charged with spying for North Korea in \u2018movie-like\u2019 scheme (NK News)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices