A new phishing kit called Xiū gǒu is being used in attacks targeting users in Australia, Japan, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States since September 2024. With more than 2,000 identified fake websites, Xiū gǒu targets sectors such as utilities, messaging, banking and digital services. Cybercriminals employ the kit to deploy phishing sites that use Cloudflare’s anti-bot and hosting protection, making them difficult to detect. The kit, developed by a Chinese-speaking actor, uses technologies such as Golang and Vue.js and is designed to exfiltrate credentials via Telegram. The attacks are distributed via Rich Communications Services (RCS) messages, which alert about parking tickets or package delivery issues, encouraging victims to click on shortened links to resolve the supposed problem.

The two pro-Russian hacktivist groups KillNet and KillMilk announced on 5 October on their communication channels that they are preparing a large-scale attack and disruption campaign targeting the United States. Targeted are government tax payment sites, state websites in Alabama, Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas and Kentucky.  This campaign may be the beginning of the anti-American operations announced by killnet in recent months, which are expected to take place after they have gained momentum. An attack on so many computer resources at once will require more manpower and technical power than KillNet's usual operations. It is therefore likely that the group has indeed made the progress it said it would and that its fundraising campaigns have paid off. October may well mark the start of its new operations, which could last for several months, in parallel with Russia's geopolitical statements.  These simultaneous attacks, if real, will have a large-scale impact on a large number of states and will therefore be difficult to counter at the federal level. They are therefore likely to have an impact and prevent the government from providing its usual services for an indefinite period of time. Because an attack of this magnitude is resource intensive, it is possible that the attack campaign will be very limited in time.  Read more about it : here

The pro-Russian group KIllNet announced on 10 August on its telegram account that it was continuing its DDoS attack against the US Senate streaming site, which began on 9 August. In parallel, former leader KillMilk shared images of what he claims is the start of his attack on the Lockheed Martin site. Read more about it : here

The pro-Russian group KillNET, posted claims to have carried out a data theft attack on the LockHeed Martin website alongside KillMilk. They posted on their Telegram channel: "Until yesterday, they said all LockheedMartin employee data was secure. The message was accompanied by a list of credentials that may have been collected from known data breaches. Killmilk also shared a video showing these same names and other PII allegedly from Lockheed Martin.   It is possible that this stolen data is just subversion to make it look like a successful attack, but that the data in question is just old data recovered from other open source Leak sites.  Read more about it : here

The pro-Russian hacktivist group KillNet and its former leader KIllMilk continue to claim responsibility for attacks on the US company Lockheed Martin. In their latest communiqués on their Telegram channels, KillMilk and Killnet announce that Lockheed Martin's share price has fallen and lost value as a result of their offensive actions even though none of the data they claimed to have stolen has been revealed.  Read more about it : here

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has observed and taken actions to disrupt campaigns launched by SEABORGIUM, an actor Microsoft has tracked since 2017. SEABORGIUM is a threat actor that originates from Russia, with objectives and victimology that align closely with Russian state interests. Its campaigns involve persistent phishing and credential theft campaigns leading to intrusions and data theft. SEABORGIUM intrusions have also been linked to hack-and-leak campaigns, where stolen and leaked data is used to shape narratives in targeted countries. While we cannot rule out that supporting elements of the group may have current or prior affiliations with criminal or other nonstate ecosystems, MSTIC assesses that information collected during SEABORGIUM intrusions likely supports traditional espionage objectives and information operations as opposed to financial motivations. Read more about it : here

For years, TikTok has responded to data privacy concerns by promising that information gathered about users in the United States is stored in the United States, rather than China, where ByteDance, the video platform's parent company, is located. But according to leaked audio from more than 80 internal TikTok meetings, China-based employees of ByteDance have repeatedly accessed nonpublic data about US TikTok users — exactly the type of behavior that inspired former president Donald Trump to threaten to ban the app in the United States. Read more about it: here

The Senate on Tuesday passed major cybersecurity legation, moving one step closer toward forcing critical infrastructure companies to report cyberattacks and ransomware payments. The passage comes as federal officials have repeatedly warned of the potential for Russian cyberattacks against the United States amid the escalating conflict in Ukraine. The legislation, which still has to pass in the House, would require critical infrastructure owners and civilian federal agencies to report to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency within 72 hours if they experience a substantial cyberattack.   Read more about it here.

After months of political infighting, a landmark cybersecurity provision requiring critical infrastructure providers to report security incidents and ransom payments has passed both chambers of Congress and now heads to President Joe Biden's desk. The provision, originally authored by leaders of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee - Sens. Gary Peters, D-Mich., and Rob Portman, R-Ohio - will require critical infrastructure owners and operators to report to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency if they experience a substantial cyberattack (report due within 72 hours of the attack) or if they make a ransomware payment (report dues within 24 hours of the payment). Read more about it here.

A NetWalker affiliate who was sentenced in Canada last month to seven years in prison was extradited Wednesday to the US, where he will face multiple charges related to his alleged participation with the ransomware group, the US Department of Justice announced today. Sebastien Vachon-Desjardins, a 34-year-old from Gatineau, Quebec, is accused of conspiracy to commit computer fraud and wire fraud, intentional damage to a protected computer, and transmitting a demand in relation to damaging a protected computer. He made his initial federal court appearance today in Tampa, at the US District Court for the Middle District of Florida, according to the Justice Department.   Read more about it here.