International law enforcement agencies have made significant strides in dismantling the Black Basta ransomware syndicate, identifying its leader and arresting key affiliates involved in network breaches and credential cracking. Concurrently, the European Commission has proposed new legislation to remove high-risk suppliers from telecom networks and strengthen the security of critical infrastructure across 18 sectors.
North Korean threat actors are evolving their tactics by leveraging malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code projects to deploy backdoors. By masquerading as recruiters, they trick software engineers into opening repositories with specially crafted task configuration files that execute multi-stage malware. Furthermore, attackers are increasingly targeting misconfigured training applications like DVWA and OWASP Juice Shop to infiltrate cloud environments, utilizing exposed credentials to deploy crypto miners and webshells in Fortune 500 networks.
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