Attacks with the new VBCloud malware have been deployed by Russian state-backed threat operation Cloud Atlas, also known as Clean Ursa, Oxygen, Inception, and Red October, to facilitate data theft against dozens of users, most of whom are in Russia, reports The Hacker News.
Major U.S. aerospace and defense firm General Dynamics has confirmed having dozens of employee benefits accounts breached following a phishing attack in October, SecurityWeek reports.
U.S. and Japanese officials have attributed the massive $308 million cryptocurrency heist against Japanese cryptocurrency exchange DMM Bitcoin in May to North Korean threat operation TraderTraitor, which is believed to be a subgroup of the Lazarus hacking collective, according to SiliconAngle.
Threat actors associated with the notorious North Korean hacking outfit Lazarus Group are now setting their sites on targets in the nuclear power sector
