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Security researchers have detected a new phishing campaign linked to a notorious disinformation threat group, which is targeting European governments as they try to manage an influx of Ukrainian refugees. First spotted on February 24, the original phishing email was sent using a compromised account belonging to a member of the Ukrainian military, according to Proofpoint. The email itself piggybacked on news of a recent UN Security Council meeting, and contained a malicious XLS macro…

Andy Farella spent five years rising up the IT leadership ranks at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) — first as director of business applications and then associate CIO — when he started feeling restless. “I was dealing with multiple aspects of the organization and involved with big projects, issues, and challenges,” Farella says. At the time he managed 125 people and was leading the technical side of a multiyear, multimillion-dollar ERP implementation. He reported to…

Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians are fleeing their country as Russian troops advance on its capitol.  Getty Images European officials are being targeted by what appears to be a state-sponsored phishing campaign aimed at disrupting their efforts to help Ukrainian refugees, cybersecurity company Proofpoint said Wednesday. According to the company’s researchers, the attackers are using what’s possibly a compromised Ukrainian armed service member’s email account to target officials managing the logistics of refugees fleeing that…

Written by AJ Vicens Mar 2, 2022 | CYBERSCOOP A hacking group with a history of phishing attacks and disinformation against NATO nations may be using compromised Ukrainian armed service member emails to target European officials tasked with managing logistics around refugees fleeing Ukraine, according to findings published Monday. Researchers with cybersecurity firm Proofpoint report they detected an email Feb. 24 that carried a subject referencing the Feb. 24 emergency meeting of NATO on the…

Perhaps Disaster Recovery (DR) isn’t one of the hot terms like the Internet of Things (IoT) or Hybrid Cloud, but I would argue that re-examining your DR plan now might be one of the most important IT management initiatives on which you can focus your energy. Think about it. How much has the world changed in the past two years? Most people used to think about disasters as typical IT incidents such as system failure,…