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Develop 'Strong Resilience and Recovery Plans,' Urges UK Cybersecurity AgencyFollowing Poland's energy grid being targeted by Russian nation-state attackers, Britain has issued a "severe cyberthreat" alert to its domestic critical national infrastructure operators, urging them to refine their defensive and resilience posture ahead of any unexpected escalation in targeting.

A previously undocumented threat actor has been attributed to attacks targeting Ukrainian organizations with malware known as CANFAIL

Espionage groups from China, Russia and other nations burned at least two dozen zero-days in edge devices in attempts to infiltrate defense contractors’ networks.

Several state-sponsored actors, hacktivist entities, and criminal groups from China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia have trained their sights on the defense industrial base (DIB) sector, according to findings from Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG)

Also: Spanish Hacker Granted Russian Asylum, Microsoft Patches Zero-DaysThis week, a CISA warning, Nest footage in Nancy Guthrie case, Signal phishing. Spanish hacker, Russian asylum. Spanish ministry services offline. BYOVD ransomware. The Conduent breach hit Volvo. Microsoft patched zero-days. ZeroDayRAT targeted devices. The SmarterMail breach. Another Fortinet flaw.

The Russian government is attempting to block WhatsApp in the country as its crackdown on communication platforms not under its control intensifies. [...]

Shadow Aeza International Directed Traffic to Malicious AdtechA financially motivated threat actor hacked dozens of domain name system resolvers, connecting them to the infrastructure of a Russian bulletproof hosting service sanctioned by the U.S. Department of Treasury for its criminal links, researchers found.

The threat actor known as Bloody Wolf has been linked to a campaign targeting Uzbekistan and Russia to infect systems with a remote access trojan known as NetSupport RAT