"Twitter discovered a possible nation-state attack while it was investigating an information disclosure flaw affecting its platform. Experts at Twitter discovered a possible state-sponsored attack while they were investigating an information disclosure vulnerability affecting its support forms. The experts discovered that the attack was launched from IP addresses that may be linked to nation-state actors."
"No data encryption, no antivirus programs, no multifactor authentication mechanisms, and 28-year-old unpatched vulnerabilities are just some of the cyber-security failings described in a security audit of the US' ballistic missile system released on Friday by the US Department of Defense Inspector General (DOD IG)."
"A new email extortion scam is making the rounds, threatening that someone has planted bombs within the recipient’s building that will be detonated unless a hefty bitcoin ransom is paid by the end of the business day."
TLP1 : Green
"In the world of the internet, security is a fast moving field and cyber-attacks are changing constantly. What may have been an appropriate security measure at one point in time may be considered unnecessary and disproportionate later on."
"The Linux.org website was defaced last week via DNS hijack, attackers breached into associated registrar account and changed the DNS settings."
TLP1 : Green
"Russian propaganda activity has raised alarm of further escalation in Ukraine, amid other concern on Moscow's role in recent French rioting. The Russian foreign ministry has, for the best part of a month, promulgated the idea that Ukraine was planning to use chemical weapons against fighters in Russia-occupied east Ukraine."
TLP1 : Green
"Tokyo: Japan is set to ban government use of telecom products made by Chinese tech giants Huawei and ZTE on concerns about cybersecurity, reports said on Friday."
TLP1 : Green
"Facebook has found itself embroiled in yet another data privacy scandal. New internal documents released this week showed the social media giant promoting – and trying to keep secret – the collection of call logs and texts for Android app users."
TLP1 : Green
"Over the last few days, many people received an email from Citrix Systems, requesting them to change their passwords. Many wondered if this was the result of a breach. I wondered what they were thinking when they sent these messages."
TLP1 : Green
On December 1, the first ransomware that demanded the “WeChat payment” ransom broke out in the country. According to the monitoring and evaluation of the “Colvet Threat Intelligence System”, as of the evening of the 4th, the virus infected at least 100,000 computers, not only locked the computer.” reads the analysis published by anti-virus firm Velvet Security
