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Major North American auto dealership firm AutoCanada had its internal IT systems affected by a cyberattack, which may lead to operational disruptions amid ongoing restoration efforts.

Purportedly exclusive data stolen from The Washington Times is being sold by Rhysida for more than $304,000 worth of Bitcoin as part of an online auction that will open in a week.

Intrusions commenced with email bomb delivery and phone calls luring targets into downloading AnyDesk to facilitate the deployment of next-stage information-stealing payloads, including the AntiSpam.exe executable and SystemBC loader.

Attacks by both hacking operations mostly involved the delivery of malicious emails seeking a review of a purportedly encrypted PDF attachment, which seeks targets' password and two-factor authentication code to facilitate email access and online storage compromise.

Intrusions aimed at exfiltrating credentials from nearly a dozen former and current U.S. officials and people associated with the campaigns of former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden were conducted by APT42 between May and June.

The CrowdStrike incident highlighted the dangers of auto-updates – here’s how to set up a test lab for a patching strategy that will keep the organization safe.