The Russian state-sponsored threat actor known as APT29 has been linked to an advanced phishing campaign that’s targeting diplomatic entities across Europe with a new variant of WINELOADER and a previously unreported malware loader codenamed GRAPELOADER. “While the improved WINELOADER variant is still a modular backdoor used in later stages, GRAPELOADER is a newly observed … Read more
Cybersecurity researchers are warning of a “widespread and ongoing” SMS phishing campaign that’s been targeting toll road users in the United States for financial theft since mid-October 2024. “The toll road smishing attacks are being carried out by multiple financially motivated threat actors using the smishing kit developed by ‘Wang Duo Yu,’” Cisco Talos researchers … Read more
Brown, Goldstein & Levy Managing Partner Jessie Weber was featured on a recent episode of Amicus, a legal podcast with Dahlia Lithwick of Slate, titled “A Lawyer’s Guide to Not Caving to the President,” in which they discussed the impact of law firms’ response to the Trump administration’s executive orders targeting the legal industry and … Read more
The smart home market continues to gain momentum with Statista forecasting a global market value of US$35,756 million in 2020, growing at a compound annual growth rate of 15.9% and nearly doubling to US$64,452 million by 2024. Statista noted that penetration is at a low 8.0% in 2020, hitting 18.8% by 2024, with the US … Read more
For years, the United States has joined with much of the rest of the world, in declaring that Russia poses a significant cyber threat – hosting cybercriminal gangs and state-sponsored hackers who present a danger to national security, critical infrastructure, and commercial organisations. But, in a radical departure from longstanding assessments by national intelligence agencies, … Read more