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Postcards sent ahead of Nov. 5 election
Columbia Gorge Women’s Action Network (CGWAN) sponsored a postcard writing project this fall through Progressive Turnout Project, the largest voter contact organization in the country, using research-backed tactics to rally voters. The local campaign involved writing postcards to voters to…
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Senior Living: Braver Angels works to bridge political divide
Are you tired of all the attack ads — she said this, he did that — and you don’t know who to trust? Thankfully in two weeks, all the campaigning will be over and we’ll know whether our candidates won…
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Nov. 5 General Election: Oregon House District 52
Nick Walden Poublon
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Nov. 5 General Election: The Dalles City Council
Dan Richardson and Debra Liddell Gomez
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Russian RomCom Attacks Target Ukrainian Government with New SingleCamper RAT Variant
The Russian threat actor known as RomCom has been linked to a new wave of cyber attacks aimed at Ukrainian government agencies and unknown Polish entities since at least late 2023. The intrusions are characterized by the use of a variant of the RomCom RAT dubbed SingleCamper (aka SnipBot or RomCom 5.0), said Cisco Talos,…
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Researchers Uncover Cicada3301 Ransomware Operations and Its Affiliate Program
Cybersecurity researchers have gleaned additional insights into a nascent ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) called Cicada3301 after successfully gaining access to the group’s affiliate panel on the dark web. Singapore-headquartered Group-IB said it contacted the threat actor behind the Cicada3301 persona on the RAMP cybercrime forum via the Tox messaging service after the latter put out an
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5 Ways to Reduce SaaS Security Risks
As technology adoption has shifted to be employee-led, just in time, and from any location or device, IT and security teams have found themselves contending with an ever-sprawling SaaS attack surface, much of which is often unknown or unmanaged. This greatly increases the risk of identity-based threats, and according to a recent report from CrowdStrike,…
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SideWinder APT Strikes Middle East and Africa With Stealthy Multi-Stage Attack
An advanced persistent threat (APT) actor with suspected ties to India has sprung forth with a flurry of attacks against high-profile entities and strategic infrastructures in the Middle East and Africa. The activity has been attributed to a group tracked as SideWinder, which is also known as APT-C-17, Baby Elephant, Hardcore Nationalist, Leafperforator, Rattlesnake, Razor…
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U.S. Charges Two Sudanese Brothers for Record 35,000 DDoS Attacks
Federal prosecutors in the U.S. have charged two Sudanese brothers with running a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet for hire that conducted a record 35,000 DDoS attacks in a single year, including those that targeted Microsoft’s services in June 2023. The attacks, which were facilitated by Anonymous Sudan’s “powerful DDoS tool,” singled out critical infrastructure, corporate…
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Hackers Abuse EDRSilencer Tool to Bypass Security and Hide Malicious Activity
Threat actors are attempting to abuse the open-source EDRSilencer tool as part of efforts to tamper endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions and hide malicious activity. Trend Micro said it detected “threat actors attempting to integrate EDRSilencer in their attacks, repurposing it as a means of evading detection.” EDRSilencer, inspired by the NightHawk FireBlock tool…
