CyberIntelMag's Threat report

Weekly Cyber Threat Report, February 27 – March 4, 2023

Welcome to CyberIntelMag’s weekly roundup! A place where you can find the most important stories in the cybersecurity world from the past week.

The Good News

The Good News

This week’s good news includes the U.S. banning several organizations supporting Russian cyber operations, the MortalKombat ransomware decryptor being released by Bitdefender, critical flaws being fixed in ThingWorx and Kepware IIoT products, Aruba Networks addressing severe weaknesses in ArubaOS, and much more.

 

The Bad News

This week’s bad news includes IoT vendors being criticized for the slow adoption of disclosure programs, CISA warning on active exploitation of the Z.K. Java Web Framework flaw, ChromeLoader malware targeting gamers, Cryptocurrency companies being targeted with sophisticated injection methods, Dish Network facing multi-day outage because of a ransomware attack, misconfigured Redis database servers being employed in a new cryptojacking effort, Gitpod weakness demonstrating the necessity for security evaluations in cloud-based development environments, GootLoader and FakeUpdates malware being used by cybercriminals for attacking law firms, and much more.

About the author

Yehudah Sunshine

Yehudah Sunshine

Bringing together his diverse professional cyber know-how, intellectual fascination with history and culture, and eclectic academic background focusing on diplomacy and the cultures of Central Asia, Yehudah Sunshine keenly blends his deep understanding of the global tech ecosystem with a nuanced worldview of the underlying socio-economic and political forces which drive policy and impact innovation in the cyber sectors. Yehudah's current work focuses on how to create and or opportunities enhance marketing strategies and elevate cyber driven thought leadership for cyfluencer (www.cyfluencer .com), the cybersecurity thought leadership platform. Sunshine has written and researched extensively within cybersecurity, the service sectors, international criminal accountability, Israel's economy, Israeli diplomatic inroads, Israeli innovation and technology, and Chinese economic policy.

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