Leaking Windows Creds Externally via MS Office – Tradecraft Security Weekly #21

BlackBerry researchers disclosed that a major U.S.-based multinational automaker had been targeted by the FIN7 hacking group in a spear-phishing attack late last year that sought to facilitate systems compromise with the Anunak malware, BleepingComputer reports.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has called for immediate authentication credential resets across all federal agencies that had their emails with Microsoft containing sensitive data compromised in an attack by Russian state-sponsored threat operation Midnight Blizzard, also known as APT29 and Cozy Bear, according to CyberScoop.

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