Wednesday, July 25
TOP STORY
Krebs reports: 8-month phishing campaign allowed criminals to steal more than $2.4 million from Virginia-based The National Bank of Blacksburg. Now the bank is suing its insurance company for refusing to fully cover the losses.
TWEET OF THE DAY
Wow. IRS Scammers stole $22,500 from a victim and impersonated @Raytheon by doing business as "Raytheon International" while doing the wire transfer. - @jon_bottarini
OTHER ARTICLES WE’RE READING
IRS published the latest in their Tax Security 101 aimed at educating tax professionals on some best practices
NYT’s profiles it’s own: Meet Runa Sandvik, the senior director of information security for The New York Times
Pro wrestler was “SIM swapped” and had their Twitter account taken over reports Motherboard
- White House appoints Grant Schneider as the new Federal CISO - the top cybersecurity official in the U.S. government
GhostPack: a collection of new offensive security C# tools
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… language such as “throwing switches” and noting it would cause “black outs” is in no way representative of what was seen in these intrusions. In these cases the adversary was taking screenshots of HMIs.
Dragos’ Robert Lee on the WSJ article about how Russian hackers have penetrated electric utilities
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