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For several years operators at New Delhi-based Appin hacked into, spied on, and stole data from targets around the world for clients that included private investigators, government agencies, law enforcement, and others.

Initial access brokers (IAB) are often difficult to track. This Tech Tip spells out some countermeasures enterprises need to defend against stolen credentials.

Toyota Finance confirms unauthorized systems access Toyota Motor Corporation subsidiary Toyota Financial Services has confirmed that unknown actors have illegally accessed systems on "a limited number" of locations in Africa and Europe, hours after the Medusa ransomware gang claimed to have stolen data from the company, BleepingComputer reports.

Threat actors are using the Ddostf malware botnet to enslave MySQL servers and rent them out to cyber criminals as a DDoS-as-a-Service platform, BleepingComputer reports.

Cybersecurity firm NSFOCUS has identified a new advanced persistent threat actor group named DarkCasino, which was behind the attacks that exploited a zero-day flaw in the WinRAR archiving tool, The Hacker News reports.

Government agencies in Moldova, Pakistan, Tunisia, and Vietnam have been targeted by threat actors in campaigns exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in the Zimbra Collaboration email server that was discovered in June, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

An advisory released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency details the background, composition, and tactics of the threat actor collective Scattered Spider, according to BleepingComputer.

White House Office Federal Chief Information Security Officer and Deputy National Cyber Director Chris DeRusha said the Biden administration is already reexamining the implementation plan for its recently published national cybersecurity strategy, CyberScoop reports. "Were already working on version 2.0," said DeRusha, who described the document as "evolving" and "not a static thing." Specifically, the administration is thinking beyond modernizing its deployed technologies, which DeRusha acknowledged won't be enough to attain the government's cybersecurity goals. "You can put compensating controls in place, but we have to have visibility on that and assurances that were actually managing the risk" to critical infrastructure, DeRusha said.

Bitdefender has warned of its discovery of a new attack methodology that threat actors may use against victims who are using Google Workspace and the Google Cloud Platform, reports The Hacker News.

The number of ransomware groups engaging in multipoint ransomware activities, also known as double-tap or double-extortion methods, to pressure targets into acceding to their ransom demands has been surging over the past three quarters of the year, reports SiliconAngle.