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In 2022, the threat actor has focused on targeting organizations responsible for influencing and crafting the foreign policy of NATO countries.

The cybersecurity world in brief: Apple, Google fix zero-days in their products, Google blocks a record HTTPS-based DDoS attack, and more.

Neither Apple, nor Google provided technical details regarding hacker attacks that exploited the zero-day vulnerabilities.

The new approach is aimed at forcing vendors take a quicker action when it comes to ineffective patches.

The threat actors claimed to have access to water treatment SCADA systems and “these systems which control chemicals in water.”

The incident described as “worst attack on public institutions in history” impacted the agency’s website, digital services and databases.

The group’s targets include defense and intelligence consulting companies, NGOs, IGOs, and higher education institutions.

In the observed campaign the attackers leveraged a self-extracting 7-Zip file, which was downloaded via the system’s default browser.

The top 5 countries with the highest number of exposed VNC instances include China, Sweden, the US, Spain, and Brazil.

The malicious campaign bears all hallmarks of a supply chain attack.