CyberSecurity Updates

Ransomware gang Dunghill Leak has claimed responsibility for a cyber attack against travel booking company Sabre. Dunghill claimed in a post on its dark web data leaks site that it had stolen 1.3 terabytes of data from Sabre, including corporate financial information, passenger turnover and ticket sales data and personal employee information. The ransomware gang validated its claims by sharing a portion of the stolen data, promising that the rest of the data will be…

Malware is being spread to Android devices via fake volcano eruption alerts, cyber security researchers have found.  Researchers at Italian cyber security company, D3Labs, published a blog about the malicious software on October 16. They discovered that malicious actors were exploiting the IT-Alert service, a new public alert system used by the Italian government to disseminate crucial information to its citizens in emergency situations, for example natural disasters.  In order to convince unsuspecting victims into…

A new cybersecurity advisory has warned of the threats posed by emerging ransomware variant Rhysida. The advisory, published jointly by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), disseminates the known indicators of compromise (IOCs) and tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) of the Rhysida ransomware operators. It also outlines the mitigative steps organizations should take to reduce the likelihood and impact…