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In this video, we present last week’s cybersecurity news. Last week we witnessed several cyber events, including hackers attack on Ukraine, the cyberattack against San Francisco’s 49ers, and cybercriminals exploiting NFT tokens. Also in the news were hackers’ attempts at attacking the aerospace industry and India banning 54 Chinese apps.
Check out the video to get more detailed information on all of these events.
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Contents of the video:
00:00 Intro
00:00 Hackers target aerospace and defense for years
00:00 Hackers use NFT to hijack your PC
00:00 India to ban 54 Chinese apps
00:00 Hackers claim they’ve hacked 49ers
00:00 Ukraine defense ministry website hacked
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Another week has passed, so let’s see what happened in the cybersecurity area during that time.
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Cybersecurity researchers revealed a hacking operation that has been targeting the aerospace and defense industries since 2017.
The hackers have been conducting phishing campaigns and malware attacks to inject organizations in the aviation, aerospace, defense, transportation, and manufacturing industries with trojan malware.
The group has compromised hundreds of organizations across North America, Europe, and the Middle East. However, it is still not known who is behind the attacks.
Cybersecurity experts claim that cybercriminals started to exploit the NFT hype to trick victims into downloading password-stealing malware and then hijack their devices. NFTs (or non-fungible tokens) are digital tokens that use the blockchain to verify the ownership and authenticity of digital items.
Researchers found a strange-looking Excel sheet with the NFT info used to spread the so-called BitRAT malware.
BitRAT is a remote-access Trojan that first emerged in 2020. It can steal credentials from apps and browsers, log keystrokes, and download malicious files.
The government of India ordered the ban of 54 Chinese apps due to national security threats. The blacklist includes various beauty apps, online games, video editors, and other applications.
By June, India had already banned such apps as TikTok, WeChat, and Helo due concerns about user data collection.
The San Francisco 49ers have been hit by a ransomware attack. Hackers claim they stole the football team’s financial data.
BlackByte, the group behind the attack, posted some of the team’s stolen documents on the dark web. However, the gang didn’t make any ransom demands.
The NFL team states that the attack disrupted some of its network systems and that it has already hired a cybersecurity team for assistance.
On Tuesday, Ukraine experienced another cyberattack knocking down the online networks of Ukraine’s defense ministry and two banks.
A DDoS attack disrupted the activities of websites of these organizations. As with the previous cases, Ukraine blames Russia for the attack.
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