In this week's Security Sprint, Dave and Andy covered the following topics:
Warm Opening:
- TribalHub & Tribal ISAC!
- TribalHub Annual Cybersecurity Summit Wrapup
- Cybersecurity summit discusses challenges tribes face from hacks
- Health ISAC!
- TLP White 2024 Health-ISAC Discussion Based Exercise Series After-Action Report
- How Hackers Using AI Tools Threaten the Health Sector
Blockchain & Crypto:
- Risky Biz News - Bybit hack post-mortem
- 1inch Hack Exposes $5M Flaw – Is It Time for Best Wallet Token?
- Feds Link $150M Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks
- A $1.5 Billion Hack: How the Biggest Crypto Heist in History Went Down
- Due to the termination of funding by the Department of Homeland Security, the Center for Internet Security no longer supports the EI-ISAC
Main Items:
Ransomware & Data Breaches:
- #NotRansomware: FBI Warns of Data Extortion Scam Targeting Corporate ExecutivesMail Scam Targeting Corporate Executives Claims Ties to Ransomware
- Snail Mail Fail: Fake Ransom Note Campaign Preys on Fear
- BianLian Denies Involvement in Ransom Letters: “Not Our Doing,” Group Tells SuspectFile.com
- SuspectFile.com – What is your official position regarding the physical letters sent to corporate executives in the United States claiming to be from your group?
- BianLian – We never do that. That is scam.\Sault Ste. Marie Tribe Says It Refused to Pay Cyberattackers’ Ransom
- Q4 Travelers' Cyber Threat Report: Ransomware Goes Full Scale
- Sault Tribe Chairman says tribe will not pay hacker’s ransom request (video)
- Highway Robbery 2.0: How Attackers Are Exploiting Toll Systems in Phishing Scams
Terrorism:
- Press Release - Global Terrorism Index 2025: Terrorism Spreads as Lone Wolf Attacks Dominate the West & Terrorism Trends Fueled by Sahel Conflicts, Western Lone Actor Attacks
- See Something, Say Something. 'Erratic' man at Kentucky church told police about plans to bomb major city, cops say
- Houston teen indicted for conspiring to commit murder under new terrorism law
- Plan to attack Australia synagogue faked by organized crime: police
- A boy with a loaded shotgun boarded a plane in Australia but was tackled by a former boxer
- A driver rams a car into crowd in Germany’s Mannheim, leaving 2 dead and 11 injured
Quick Hits:
- 'Five Eyes alliance' crumbling after UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada give US cold shoulder
- FBI PSA: Beijing Leveraging Freelance Hackers and Information Security Companies to Compromise Computer Networks Worldwide
- Cisco Talos exposes Lotus Blossom cyber espionage campaigns targeting governments, telecom, media
- Chinese Nationals with Ties to the PRC Government and “APT27” Charged in a Computer Hacking Campaign for Profit, Targeting Numerous U.S. Companies, Institutions, and Municipalities
- Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party Holds Hearing — " End the Typhoons: How to Deter Beijing’s Cyber Actions and Enhance America’s Lackluster Cyber Defenses”
- Former top NSA cyber official: Probationary firings ‘devastating’ to cyber, national security & Former intelligence officials denounce job cuts to federal cyber roles.
- Treasury Suspends Rule Requiring Disclosure Of LLCs' True Owners & Dept. of Treasury Press Release: Treasury Department Announces Suspension of Enforcement of Corporate Transparency Act Against U.S. Citizens and Domestic Reporting Companies
- Polish space agency investigates cyberattack on its systems
- Cybersecurity Job Satisfaction Plummets, Women Hit Hardest
- Cisco Small Business RV016, RV042, RV042G, RV082, RV320, and RV325 Routers Vulnerabilities