Each week I publish interesting articles and ways to improve your understanding of cybersecurity.

Projects

• Linux Foundation – Introduction to Kubernetes (LF158) – In Progress
• TryHackMe – Splunk: Setting up a SOC Lab
• TryHackMe – Advent of Cyber – Playlist

Videos

Articles

• Meta plans to build a $10B subsea cable spanning the world, sources say – sources close to the company that Meta plans to build a new, major, fibre-optic subsea cable extending around the world — a 40,000+ kilometer project that could total more than $10 billion of investment.
• New York Fines Geico and Travelers $11 Million Over Data Breaches – New York has announced $11 million settlements with Geico and Travelers over data breaches affecting 120,000 people.
• Data on 760K workers from Xerox, Nokia, BofA, Morgan Stanley and more dumped online – Hundreds of thousands of employees from major corporations including Xerox, Nokia, Koch, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and others appear to be the latest victims in a massive data breach linked to last year’s attacks on file transfer tool MOVEit.
• Russia sentences Hydra dark web market leader to life in prison – Russian authorities have sentenced the leader of the criminal group behind the now-closed dark web platform Hydra Market to life in prison.
• Law Enforcement Read Criminals’ Messages After Hacking Matrix Service – Law enforcement has taken down yet another encrypted messaging service used by criminals, but not before spying on its users.
• Spy v Spy: Russian APT Turla Caught Stealing from Pakistani APT – Russia’s Turla hackers hijacked 33 command servers operated by Pakistani hackers who had themselves breached Afghanistan and Indian targets.
• Telecom Giant BT Group Hit by Black Basta Ransomware – BT Group, a major telecommunications firm, has been hit by a ransomware attack from the Black Basta group. The attack targeted the company’s Conferencing division, leading to server shutdowns and potential data theft.
• Recently Charged Scattered Spider Suspect Did Poor Job at Covering Tracks – A California teen suspected of being a Scattered Spider member left a long trail of evidence and even used an FBI service to launder money.
• Deloitte Hacked – Brain Cipher Ransomware Group Allegedly Stolen 1 TB of Data – Notorious ransomware group Brain Cipher has claimed to have breached Deloitte UK, allegedly exfiltrating over 1 terabyte of sensitive data from the professional services giant.
• Authorities Shut Down Crimenetwork, the Germany’s Largest Crime Marketplace – Germany’s largest crime marketplace, Crimenetwork, has been shut down, and an administrator has been arrested.
• NachoVPN Tool Exploits Flaws in Popular VPN Clients for System Compromise – Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a set of flaws impacting Palo Alto Networks and SonicWall virtual private network (VPN) clients that could be potentially exploited to gain remote code execution on Windows and macOS systems.

Podcasts

• Smashing Security 396: Dishy DDoS dramas, and mining our minds for data