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By Jon Munshaw.  Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter that’s going to be a little different, but bear with me.  In honor of the NFL Draft starting this evening — an event that Cisco is helping to secure — I thought it’d be appropriate to look at building a... [[ This is only the beginning! Please visit the blog for the complete entry ]]

Cybercriminal actors previously observed delivering BazaLoader and IcedID as part of their malware campaigns are said to have transitioned to a new loader called Bumblebee that's under active development. "Based on the timing of its appearance in the threat landscape and use by multiple cybercriminal groups, it is likely Bumblebee is, if not a direct replacement for BazaLoader, then a new,

Cloudflare on Wednesday disclosed that it acted to mitigate a 15.3 million request-per-second (RPS) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The web infrastructure and website security company called it one of the "largest HTTPS DDoS attacks on record."  "HTTPS DDoS attacks are more expensive in terms of required computational resources because of the higher cost of establishing a secure TLS

The Botnet appears to use a new delivery method for compromising Windows systems after Microsoft disables VBA macros by default.

The U.S. government on Tuesday announced up to $10 million in rewards for information on six hackers associated with the Russian military intelligence service. "These individuals participated in malicious cyber activities on behalf of the Russian government against U.S. critical infrastructure in violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act," the State Department's Rewards for Justice Program

This is the Spamhaus Botnet Threat Update for Q1 2022. It shows a modest increase of 8% in the new number of botnet command and controllers.

The ongoing war in Ukraine means that defenses are only as good and as strong as those with whom we partner.

D-Link DIR-865L has SMB Symlink Traversal due to misconfiguration in the SMB service allowing symbolic links to be created to locations outside of the Samba share.

TELESTAR Bobs Rock Radio, Dabman D10, Dabman i30 Stereo, Imperial i110, Imperial i150, Imperial i200, Imperial i200-cd, Imperial i400, Imperial i450, Imperial i500-bt, and Imperial i600 TN81HH96-g102h-g102 devices have insufficient access control for the /set_dname, /mylogo, /LocalPlay, /irdevice.xml, /Sendkey, /setvol, /hotkeylist, /init, /playlogo.jpg, /stop, /exit, /back, and /playinfo commands.

Several sources estimate that by the year 2020 some 50 billion IoT devices will be deployed worldwide. IoT devices are purposefully designed to connect to a network and many are simply connected to the internet with little management or oversight. Such devices still must be identifiable, maintained, and monitored by security teams, especially in large complex enterprises.