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The threat actor Luckymouse (also known as Emissary Panda, APT27, Bronze Union and Iron Tiger) used a trojanized version of the cross-platform messaging app MiMi to backdoor devices across Windows, macOS and Linux operating systems. The news comes from two different security reports, respectively published by SEKOIA and Trend Micro over the weekend. After modifying installer files, Luckymouse would make the weaponized version of MiMi download and install remote access trojan (RAT) HyperBro samples for the…

The Dutch Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD) said it arrested a 29-year-old man in Amsterdam on August 10 in connection with the recent U.S. Treasury sanctions on decentralized Ethereum mixing service Tornado Cash.  The unnamed individual is suspected of “involvement in concealing criminal financial flows” and “facilitating money laundering through the mixing of cryptocurrencies” using Tornado Cash.  “Multiple arrests are not ruled out,” FIOD wrote on its website. “Also in the cryptocurrency domain, the…

The benefits of cloud approaches might have you asking, “Is now the right time to move from mainframe?” The availability of cloud and on-premises cloud hybrid, consumption models have led to organizations rethinking their entire application portfolio strategy. This is no less the case for mainframe users. It’s been happening for a while, and more and more are moving to reap the benefits. What are the main ones? HPE So if mainframe migrations are risky,…

Preventing internal & external cybersecurity breaches with zero trust OT network segmentation By Ryan Lung, Senior product manager at TXOne Networks In the last years, malicious actors have threatened organizations with increasingly higher risks of losses of money or even of lives. In response, security researchers developed more secure and reliable network security methodologies. Prior to the invention of the zero trust approach, network defense was typically based on two separate “trust levels”— inside network…

When governments around the world began to impose sanctions against Russia in early 2022 after the invasion of Ukraine, there were many unanswered questions about how to actually implement them for internet operators. In a session at the DEFCON 30 security conference in Las Vegas, USA, Bill Woodcock, executive director at the Packet Clearing House (PCH), detailed the challenges and the response of internet operators to government sanctions. Woodcock explained that sanctions are a tool…