InfoSec News Nuggets 10/22/2021

FIN7 hackers set up a fake company to recruit for cyberattacks FIN7, a financially motivated Russian hacking group, has set up a fake company to lure unwitting IT specialists into supporting its continued expansion into ransomware, security researchers have found. According to researchers at Recorded Future’s Gemini Advisory unit, FIN7 — known for hacking into point-of-sale registers and stealing over $1 billion from millions of credit cards — is now operating under the guise of Bastion Secure, which claims…
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InfoSec News Nuggets 11/19/2020

Hacking group exploits ZeroLogon in automotive, industrial attack wave The active cyberattack is thought to be the handiwork of Cicada, also tracked as APT10, Stone Panda, and Cloud Hopper. Historically, the threat group -- first discovered in 2009 and one that the US believes may be sponsored by the Chinese government -- has targeted organizations connected to Japan, and this latest attack wave appears to be no different. Symantec researchers have documented companies and their subsidiaries…
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