Cyberespionage campaign looks a lot like SIGINT collection. Magnitude gets more capable. VPN exploits solicited. Ransomware trends. Seven years for UPMC hacker. Plenty of Candy Corn coming.
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Using a Moribund Exploit Kit to Obtain an Advanced Ability
The well known exploit broker zerodium, is looking for exploitable flaws in express v p n, nord v p n and surf shark. They are interested specifically in information disclosure, ip address leak or remote code execution. The company says that local privilege escalation is out of scope. 83 % of the victims paid their extortionists earlier this year,. on may twentieth one, justin. johnson, formerly employed by the us. Federal emergency management agency, took a guilty plea to counts one and 39 of a forty three count indictment.
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