Cyware Weekly Threat Intelligence - June 14–18

Weekly Threat Briefing • June 18, 2021
Weekly Threat Briefing • June 18, 2021
The Good
“You're gonna clap your hands, Gonna wanna dance when you hear it.” Because we have loads of good news to give your morning a fresh start. Another ransomware has locked up its business and sent the decryption keys for its victims. A change of heart? Perhaps not! In a latest technological advancement researchers developed a smart home system that doesn’t eavesdrop on your conversations. There cannot be a good end to the week without cybercriminals being punished for their deeds. Microsoft broke up the cloud infrastructure used by BEC scammers.
The Bad
When an organization is repeatedly hit by cyberattacks, it raises some serious questions about its security posture and what it is doing to protect sensitive information. Take the case of Carnival Corporation. The firm has been hit with security breaches multiple times in the past couple of years, with the latest one this week. Once again, we cannot escape from the news of misconfigured databases as Cognyte left bare billions of records exposed. The monumental SITA breach has finally been attributed to the APT41 threat actor.
New Threats
Well well well, what do we have here? A novel malware has been discovered that doesn’t fit any typical malware motive, as of now. It instead tries to ban software piracy! A new Mirai variant has been found that scans Tenda routers for uncommon flaws. Finally, we have an opportunistic hacker trying to fly under the name of DarkSide to misdirect the defenders.