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Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit has taken down 41 domains used by the hackers in their C&C-infrastructure.

Specifically, the attacks targeted embedded microcontrollers such as the Intel Management Engine or Intel Converged Security Management Engine.

The researchers believe that multiple threat actors from China are using this zero-day exploit.

The goal of the attacks is to infect networks belonging to Ukrainian government agencies with the Cobalt Strike Beacon malware.

The LockBit ransomware gang claimes to have attacked the Foxconn Baja California production branch in Tijuana, Mexico.

The police disconnected 10,000 victims from the FluBot network and prevented over 6.5 million spam SMS from reaching prospective victims.

Paul Nakasone didn’t provide any information regarding the nature of these cyber operations, but said the activities were lawful and done with civilian oversight.

The threat actors have replaced 450 indexes with ransom notes demanding $620 to restore contents.

More than 1 million exposed MySQL servers were located in the US.

Since the start of the war, the number of scams aimed at taking advantage of people who want to help the Ukrainians has been steadily rising.