Each week I publish interesting articles and ways to improve your understanding of cybersecurity.
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- Linux Foundation – Introduction to Kubernetes (LF158) – In Progress
- TryHackMe – Splunk: Setting up a SOC Lab
- TryHackMe – Advent of Cyber – Playlist
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Articles
- China’s Salt Typhoon recorded top American officials’ calls, says White House – Chinese cyberspies recorded “very senior” US political figures’ calls, according to White House security boss Anne Neuberger.
- Senior Dating data breach exposes more than 700,000 users – Information includes latitude and longitude coordinates
- “CP3O” pleads guilty to multi-million dollar cryptomining scheme – 45-year-old Charles O Parks III (who went by the moniker “CP30” online) pleaded guilty to wire fraud charges at a federal court in Brooklyn, New York, after defrauding two well-known providers of cloud computing services out of over US $3.5 million.
- U.S. Charges Chinese Hacker for Exploiting Zero-Day in 81,000 Sophos Firewalls – The U.S. government on Tuesday unsealed charges against a Chinese national for allegedly breaking into thousands of Sophos firewall devices globally in 2020.
- FBI Busts Rydox Marketplace with 7,600 PII Sales, Cryptocurrency Worth $225K Seized – The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday announced the shutdown of an illicit marketplace called Rydox (“rydox[.]ru” and “rydox[.]cc”) for selling stolen personal information, access devices, and other tools for conducting cybercrime and fraud.
- North Korea’s fake IT worker scam hauled in at least $88 million over six years – DoJ thinks it’s found the folks that ran it, and some of the ‘IT warriors’ sent out to fleece employers
- New IOCONTROL malware used in critical infrastructure attacks – Iranian threat actors are utilizing a new malware named IOCONTROL to compromise Internet of Things (IoT) devices and OT/SCADA systems used by critical infrastructure in Israel and the United States.