Inconsistencies and lack of information in cybersecurity disclosures highlight the need for organizations to establish a robust materiality assessment framework.
The likely China-linked campaign is deploying CloudSorcerer and other proprietary binaries belonging to known state-sponsored groups, showing how advanced persistent threat groups often collaborate with each other.
According to the researchers, roughly 250 fake advertisements appeared on platforms like Facebook and Instagram, and some are reportedly still up and running.
Cloud services and thus millions of end users who access them could have been affected by the poisoning of artifacts in the development workflow of open source projects.
Maksim Silnikau and his associates are accused of developing and distributing notorious ransomware strains such as Reveton and Ransom Cartel, among other criminal acts.