Cyware Weekly Threat Intelligence, July 11 - 15, 2022

Weekly Threat Briefing • July 15, 2022
Weekly Threat Briefing • July 15, 2022
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is on the lookout for tech companies that are illegally using and sharing sensitive data of users. This is aimed at improving consumer privacy and reducing the mishandling of their personal data. Meanwhile, a variant of Hive ransomware has now less chance to make money out of your encrypted files as a decryption key is available on GitHub.
BlackCat group has raised the stakes in its extortion scheme. Now, the threat actor’s ransom demands start with $2.5 million, which puts additional pressure on victim organizations to save their stolen data. Having said that, the group added Bandai Namco to its list of victims this week. Multiple phishing attacks that are active since 2021 also made headlines for ensnaring credentials, and other sensitive data of users and employees across the globe.
Spectre-like speculative-execution attacks continue to haunt the silicon world. Researchers have published details about the new RetBleed attack that impacts certain CPUs from Intel and AMD. A record-breaking DDoS attack was launched using over 5000 bots. The blame goes to the operators of the Mantis botnet that has been active since 2018.