InfoSec News Nuggets 12/01/2021

Ransomware Group Rebrands Multiple Times to Evade Detection A mid-sized ransomware group known for targeting healthcare and education sector organizations has repeatedly rebranded over the past year to avoid scrutiny, according to Mandiant. The “54BB47h” (Sabbath) group first appeared on the radar in September when it advertised for affiliate partners, the threat intelligence firm said. Unusually for a ransomware group, it provides these affiliates with their own pre-configured Cobalt Strike Beacon backdoor payloads. While this posed a…
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InfoSec News Nuggets 12/02/2020

Developers can now run macOS apps in an Amazon EC2 instance running on an Intel Mac mini Amazon EC2 Mac instances enable customers to run on-demand macOS workloads in the cloud for the first time, extending the flexibility, scalability, and cost benefits of AWS to all Apple developers. With EC2 Mac instances, developers creating apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and Safari can provision and access macOS environments within minutes, dynamically scale…
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