This Week In Nerd News #79 Raccoon Password Stealer

Raccoon Password Stealer is Back and More Effective than Ever.

This is why it is so essential to MFA everything, and go passwordless where we can. We can’t do this soon enough, but it’ll take many years yet.

According to cybersecurity researchers at Sekoia, the worst may still be yet to come.

Zero-Days Aren’t Going Away Anytime Soon & What Leaders Need to Know.

This post illustrates why every business needs to be concerned and take proactive preventative steps, not just an incident response plan.

There were a record number of zero-day attacks last year, but some basic cyber-hygiene strategies can help keep your organization more safe.

How mercenary hackers sway litigation battles.

Indian cyber mercenaries hacking parties involved in lawsuits around the world – showing how hired spies have become the secret weapon of litigants seeking an edge.

A trove of thousands of email records uncovered by Reuters reveals Indian cyber mercenaries hacking parties involved in lawsuits around the world – showing how hired spies have become the secret weapon of litigants seeking an edge.

Cyberattack forces Iran steel company to halt production.

Another cyber attack causing bodily harm.

One of Iran’s major steel companies said Monday it was forced to halt production after being hit by a cyberattack that also targeted two other plants, apparently marking one of the biggest such assaults on the country’s strategic industrial sector in recent memory.

A wide range of routers are under attack by new, unusually sophisticated malware.

If you suspect this has happened, powering the router off/on removes the malware, but will likely be re-infected by the same source that infected it to begin with. Best to use non-stock firmware, such as Merlin for ASUS routers.