Distributed Workforce

Microsoft has disclosed that its Outlook web portal, OneDrive, and Azure Portal had been disrupted between June 7 and 9 as a result of Layer 7 distributed denial-of-service attacks deployed by hacktivist threat operation Anonymous Sudan, also known as Storm-1359, reports BleepingComputer.

BleepingComputer reports that WhatsApp backup files are being exfiltrated by the updated Android GravityRAT spyware distributed in a malware campaign that has been ongoing since last August.

More than 200 security vulnerabilities have been collectively fixed by Siemens and Schneider Electric in their own industrial offerings as part of this month's Patch Tuesday, reports SecurityWeek.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is looking to resolve data privacy issues with a new privacy and data protection task force, CyberScoop reports.

SiliconAngle reports that generative artificial intelligence platforms ChatGPT and Google Bard have been increasingly used in facilitating more potent email attacks.

Mandiant, which led the incident response investigation, expressed a "high degree of confidence" that a threat group linked to China is using the zero-day to target and exfiltrate email data from government officials and academics working on topics of interest to Beijing.

BleepingComputer reports that more than 100 widely known clothing and footwear brands, including Tommy Hilfiger, Guess, Columbia, Adidas, and Nike, have been spoofed in an ongoing brand impersonation phishing campaign since June 2022 aimed at exfiltrating user credentials and financial details.