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Introduction The infamous Colonial pipeline ransomware attack (2021) and SolarWinds supply chain attack (2020) were more than data leaks; they were seismic shifts in cybersecurity. These attacks exposed a critical challenge for Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs): holding their ground while maintaining control over cloud security in the accelerating world of DevOps.

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. An investigation into Stark Industries reveals it is being used as a global proxy network that conceals the true source of cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns against enemies of Russia.

Also: Spanish Hacker Alcasec Arrested AgainThis week, Fluent Bit contains a flaw, Microsoft is nuking VBScript, Irish police and the SEC face fines, a man was sentenced for BEC, a flaw was found in Netflix's Genie, an Australia university said it was breached and Black Basta claimed an attack, and hacker Alcasec was arrested again.

Microsoft researchers discover an old-timey scam with a facelift for the cloud era: hacking retailers' portals to make it rain gift cards.

According to Enea, these campaigns use cloud storage platforms to host malicious websites, sending links via SMS to bypass firewalls

Conversations about data security tend to diverge into three main threads: How can we protect the data we store on our on-premises or cloud infrastructure? What strategies and tools or platforms can reliably backup and restore data? What would losing all this data cost us, and how quickly could we get it back? All are valid and necessary conversations for technology organizations of all shapes

Beijing's Tough-to-Track Mesh Networks Built Using Hacked Devices, Mandiant WarnsMultiple Chinese cyber espionage groups, including Volt Typhoon, are using operational relay box networks, aka ORBs, built using leased proxy servers and compromised or end-of-life routers, to avoid detection and complicate efforts to track their activities, warns Google Cloud's Mandiant.

Crashes galore, plus especially crafty crims could use it for much worse Infosec researchers are alerting the industry to a critical vulnerability in Fluent Bit – a logging component used by a swathe of blue chip companies and all three major cloud providers.…

A new attack campaign dubbed CLOUD#REVERSER has been observed leveraging legitimate cloud storage services like Google Drive and Dropbox to stage malicious payloads

A newly discovered flaw in open source utility Fluent Bit could enable widespread DoS, RCE and information leakage

​A critical Fluent Bit vulnerability that can be exploited in denial-of-service and remote code execution attacks impacts all major cloud providers and many technology giants. [...]

The acquisition gives CyberArk new IoT identity and certificate lifecycle management, cryptographic code-signing, and other services to secure the enterprise cloud.