Cyberespionage, from war floating to phishing. An update on ESXiArgs. Fresh sanctions against ransomware operators, and more takedowns may be in the offing.
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The New Threat Actor - News Penguin
Blackberry says News Penguin is a previously unknown threat actor relying on unseen tooling to target Pakistani users and potential visitors of the Pakistani International Maritime Expo and Conference. Ukraine's state service of special communication and information protection state cyber protection center, we'll just call them the SSSCIP, reports that a Russian cyber espionage campaign is fishing for targets in the Ukrainian and Polish governments. A new version of the ESXi-ARG's ransomware appears to prevent data recovery via flat files.
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