Blackbyte's new exfiltration tool. Hijacking student accounts for BEC. Zhora calls Russia's cyber campaigns a failure. OldGremlin ransomware is an outlier.

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Blackbyte's new exfiltration tool. Hijacking student accounts for BEC. Zhora calls Russia's cyber campaigns a failure. Caleb Barlow explores new thinking for incident response. Our guest is Jon Hencinski of Expel, tracking the latest threat trends. OldGremlin ransomware is an outlier.


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Selected reading.

Exbyte: BlackByte Ransomware Attackers Deploy New Exfiltration Tool (Symantec)

Hijacking Student Accounts to Launch BEC-Style Attacks (Avanan)

This sneaky kind of cybercrime rules them all (Washington Post)

Russia Failing to Reach Cyber War Goals, Ukrainian Official Says (Meritalk) 

EU supports cybersecurity in Ukraine with over €10 million - EU NEIGHBOURS east (EU NEIGHBOURS east) 

Gremlins’ prey, secrets, and dirty tricks: the ransomware gang OldGremlin set new records (Group-IB) 

OldGremlin hackers use Linux ransomware to attack Russian orgs (BleepingComputer)

OldGremlin, which targets Russia, debuts new Linux ransomware (Computing) It is one of the few ransomware groups in the world that prefer to target Russian organisations, but this may change experts advise

More Russian Organizations Feeling Ransomware Pain (Bank Info Security)

2022-10-21 29 min

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