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Geographic Solutions Inc., the company handling the unemployment websites of several states, took the websites offline due to the attack. Image: iStockphoto/g-stockstudio Many people are still seeking jobs following the mass layoffs spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, and thus still filing for unemployment benefits as a result. Unfortunately, cybercriminals have also targeted these same systems for attack. AP News found that several states are dealing with a disruption of unemployment benefits caused by cyberattacks, leading…

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a new advisory suggesting North Korean state-sponsored cyber actors are using the Maui ransomware to target Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) Sector organizations in the US. According to the document – a joint effort between CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) – the threat actors have been engaging in these campaigns since at least May 2021. “North Korean…

An advanced persistent threat (APT) operating under the name of ‘Bitter’ continues to conduct cyber-attacks against military entities in Bangladesh. The news comes from a team of SecuInfra cybersecurity experts, who published an advisory on Tuesday describing the south-Asian APT’s recent campaigns.  “Through malicious document files and intermediate malware stages, the threat actors conduct espionage by deploying Remote Access Trojans,” reads the document. The SecuInfra findings build on a report published by Talos last May (which disclosed the group’s expansion…

The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Anomali Cyber Watch discuss the following topics: APT, China, DDoS, Industrial Control Systems, Phishing, Russia, Toll fraud, and Vulnerabilities. The IOCs related to these stories are attached to Anomali Cyber Watch and can be used to check your logs for potential malicious activity. Figure 1 – IOC Summary Charts. These charts summarize the IOCs attached to this magazine and provide a glimpse of the threats…