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Coffee Talk with SURGe: 2023-NOV-14 ICBC Ransomware, Sandworm Cuts Power in Ukraine, Volt Typhoon

Grab a cup of coffee and join Mick Baccio, Ryan Kovar, and Audra Streetman for another edition of Coffee Talk with SURGe. The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including: Mick and Ryan will also compete in a charity challenge to explain what constitutes an influence operation, and why network defenders should care.

Reporting and Alerting: Gootloader and the NCSC

Join Bill and Robin as they dive into the latest and greatest cybersecurity news. In this weeks episode Bill covers the ever-present threat of Gootloader, and Robin dives into a recent 70+ page report published by the UKs National Cyber Security Center (NCSC.) What is Gootloader? What threats/trends have the NCSC identified, and what's their recommendations for the future? Learn all this and more on the latest episode.

City of Huber Heights Targeted by Ransomware Attack Sunday

The City of Huber Heights is in east Ohio, north of Dayton. The suburban area has a population of around 50,000, but other populated areas are nearby. Sunday morning, November 12th, 2023, the City of Huber Heights was subject to a ransomware attack; the investigation is ongoing, as the attack disrupted many City divisions.

Cyber Attack Preparedness

Rubrik has been assisting our customers with recovery from cyber attacks since 2018. We immediately took notice of these attacks, and early on, began developing processes and procedures to respond more effectively to better assist our customers. Our spirit of continuous improvement and execution of lessons learned from the field has led to a number of improvements to both our products and processes.

Top tips: 4 ways to bounce back from a ransomware attack

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world today and list out ways to explore these trends. This week we’re looking into how your organization can recover from a ransomware attack. It’s well known at this point that ransomware attacks are an inevitability. With around 493.33 million ransomware attempts in 2022 alone, it’s not a question of if you’ll fall victim to a ransomware attack, but rather it’s a question of when.

IMPERIAL KITTEN Deploys Novel Malware Families in Middle East-Focused Operations

CrowdStrike Counter Adversary Operations has been investigating a series of cyberattacks and strategic web compromise (SWC) operations targeting organizations in the transportation, logistics and technology sectors that occurred in October 2023. Based on a detailed examination of the malicious tooling used in these attacks, along with additional reporting and industry reports, CrowdStrike Intelligence attributes this activity to the IMPERIAL KITTEN adversary.