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RedJuliett Cyber Espionage Campaign Hits 75 Taiwanese Organizations
A likely China-linked state-sponsored threat actor has been linked to a cyber espionage campaign targeting government, academic, technology, and diplomatic organizations in Taiwan between November 2023 and April 2024. Recorded Future’s Insikt Group is tracking the activity under the name RedJuliett, describing it as a cluster that operates Fuzhou, China, to support Beijing’s intelligence
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Multiple Threat Actors Deploying Open-Source Rafel RAT to Target Android Devices
Multiple threat actors, including cyber espionage groups, are employing an open-source Android remote administration tool called Rafel RAT to meet their operational objectives by masquerading it as Instagram, WhatsApp, and various e-commerce and antivirus apps. “It provides malicious actors with a powerful toolkit for remote administration and control, enabling a range of malicious activities
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ExCobalt Cyber Gang Targets Russian Sectors with New GoRed Backdoor
Russian organizations have been targeted by a cybercrime gang called ExCobalt using a previously unknown Golang-based backdoor known as GoRed. “ExCobalt focuses on cyber espionage and includes several members active since at least 2016 and presumably once part of the notorious Cobalt Gang,” Positive Technologies researchers Vladislav Lunin and Alexander Badayev said in a technical…
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Warning: New Adware Campaign Targets Meta Quest App Seekers
A new campaign is tricking users searching for the Meta Quest (formerly Oculus) application for Windows into downloading a new adware family called AdsExhaust. “The adware is capable of exfiltrating screenshots from infected devices and interacting with browsers using simulated keystrokes,” cybersecurity firm eSentire said in an analysis, adding it identified the activity earlier this…
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U.S. Treasury Sanctions 12 Kaspersky Executives Amid Software Ban
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed sanctions against a dozen individuals serving executive and senior leadership roles at Kaspersky Lab, a day after the Russian company was banned by the Commerce Department. The move “underscores our commitment to ensure the integrity of our cyber domain and to protect…
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Under Armour agrees to pay $434M to settle lawsuit
The lawsuit dates back to 2017, during Kevin Plank’s first stint as CEO.
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PGE’s Pope, new board chair for national utility trade group, faces questions
Senators question PGE’s Pope on EEI’s challenge of a Biden administration rule limiting climate gas emissions from fossil fuel power plants.
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Synergy India Ventures hires three ex-Nike employees for C-suite
Synergy has offices in Portland, India and Taiwan.
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Strike prompts more accusations between nurses union and Providence
About 3,000 nurses on Tuesday kicked off a three-day strike at six Providence hospitals around Oregon.
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Nike sued, accused of ‘scheme to defraud’ shareholders over DTC strategy
This lawsuit alleges that Nike and two of its leaders didn’t properly disclose certain aspects of its direct-to-consumer strategy.
