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1. Malicious Activity Rises After CrowdStrike Outage: Bolster, a phishing protection company, announced that CheckPhish, its free phishing and scam detection site, has detected a spike in malicious activities, with more than 40 phishing and phony lookalike domains created in the first 24 hours following the CrowdStrike software incident. Bolster has identified multiple types of phishing scams already, from malicious domains offering technical or legal support, to CrowdStrike crypto tokens, and sites still under construction. The CheckPhish community has created a growing list of CrowdStrike typosquats, the company said. Check out MSSP Alert's full coverage of the story.
2. Channel Reseller Program Debuts: Blumira, a security and operations platform provider that works closely with MSPs, has launched its new Reseller Program. This program will enable resellers to add an affordable security solution to better meet the needs of mid-sized and smaller business (SMB) customers, the company said. Blumira has also appointed Marc Davis as its channel development leader. In this role, Davis will spearhead the development and execution of comprehensive partner strategies, cultivate strong collaborative relationships and ensure the success of Blumira partners.
3. Startup Scores Funding Round: Heeler Security Inc., a startup in the application security space, has closed an $8.5 million seed series funding round led by Norwest Venture Partners with significant participation from Storm Ventures. Heeler’s ProductDNA technology unifies the code, behavior and business context of applications in real-time, delivering a frictionless chain of custody between the intended state in code and the running state in production, the company said.
4. Two Plead Guilty Over LockBit Involvement: Two foreign nationals have pleaded guilty in federal court to deploying LockBit ransomware attacks against victims in the United States and worldwide, accoridng to a statement from the U.S. Department of Justice. Ruslan Magomedovich Astamirov, 21, a Russian national of Chechen Republic, Russia, and Mikhail Vasiliev, 34, a dual Canadian and Russian national of Bradford, Ontario, were members of LockBit. Between 2020 and 2023, Astamirov deployed LockBit against at least 12 victims, including businesses in Virginia, Japan, France, Scotland and Kenya. Operating under the online aliases “BETTERPAY,” “offtitan,” and “Eastfarmer,” he derived at least $1.9 million in ransom payments from those victims.
5. L.A. Court Attacked: The Los Angeles County Superior Court system was closed Monday as its tech services division continued to repair and reboot network computer systems that were "severely impacted'' by a ransomware attack, the court announced. The cyberattack on Friday attack forced the shutdown of nearly all network systems, from the jury portal to the court’s website. (Source: ABC7 News)
6. New Threat Actor Spotted: Infoblox, a specialist in cloud networking and security services, has announced a significant breakthrough in cybercrime investigation with the unmasking of a threat actor that the company has named "Vigorish Viper." Vigorish Viper is a Chinese organized crime syndicate that utilizes a sophisticated technology suite to take advantage of the global $1.7 trillion illegal sports gambling economy, with links to money laundering and human trafficking operations across Asia, the company said.
7. Cloud Security Advancement: WiMi Hologram Cloud, a hologram augmented reality technology provider, announced that it has developed a blockchain-based trust approach for cloud computing to address trust and security issues in cloud computing services through technological innovation while meeting increasingly stringent regulatory requirements and market demands. WiMi's blockchain-based trust approach for cloud computing establishes a decentralized trust framework so that the trust evaluation process is no longer dependent on a single central node.
