TJX money launderer sentenced to four years

Attempted hijacking attacks similar to the recent compromise of the XZ Utils data compression project have been averted by OpenJS Foundation researchers, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

Operations of Russia's industrial sensor and monitoring infrastructure were claimed to have been disrupted by Ukrainian hacking operation Blackjack following a Fuxnet malware attack against Moscow-based underground infrastructure firm Moscollector, reports SecurityWeek.

Attacks by the Muddled Libra threat operation — also known as UNC3944, Scattered Spider, Scatter Swine, and Starfraud — have been redirected at cloud service providers and software-as-a-service apps as part of efforts to bolster its data extortion efforts, reports The Hacker News.