Hackers attacked military-run government websites in Myanmar on Thursday (Feb 18) as a cyber war erupted after authorities shut down the Internet for a fourth straight night.

The French information security agency (ANSSI) linked Russian group Sandworm with a three-year-long stealthy operation involving a breach of several French entities by exploiting an IT monitoring tool.

Purdue University and MITRE are combining their expertise and capabilities to form a new public-private partnership focusing on key areas of national safety and security.

Microsoft has announced that the SolarWinds hackers could gain access to source code for a limited amount of components used by Azure, Intune, and Exchange. The investigation also determined that the accessed code did not contain any credentials.

Phishers are trying to trick users into opening a “LinkedIn Private Shared Document” and entering their login credentials into a fake LinkedIn login page, security researcher JB Bowers warns.

A user on a popular hacking forum is selling a database that purportedly contains more than 257,000 user records from orakulas.lt (now known as Olybet.lt), a Lithuanian online betting service.

The MITRE ATT&CK framework is a well known and widely used knowledge base of cyber adversary tactics, techniques and procedures, and is based on observations on real-world attacks.

Delivered through phishing emails, the Masslogger trojan’s latest variant is contained within a multi-volume RAR archive using the .chm file format and .r00 extensions, said Switchzilla researchers.

Tech companies and government agencies released alerts about ongoing phishing campaigns laden with malicious attachments and social engineering tactics. 

Researchers have observed a newer, stealthier version of BazarBackdoor, which is written in Nim language to enhance its evasion capabilities, being increasingly distributed through spam campaigns.