Ukrainian charged for operating Raccoon Stealer malware service 

Bleeping Computer: Federal grand jury indictment charges were brought against Mark Sokolovsky, a 26 year old Ukrainian national for his role in the Racoon Sealder malware-as-a-service (MaaS) cybercrime operation. The FBI identified over 50 million unique credentials and forms of personal identification of stolen data from millions of victims around the world. Since Sokolvovsky’s arrest in the Netherlands, law enforcement departments were able to dismantle the Raccoon Infostealer and take it offline. 

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FTC brings action against CEO of alcohol delivery company over data breach

Washington Post: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has imposed sanctions against Drizy and its CEO, James Cory Rellas. Drizly is an alcohol delivery service that Uber purchased in 2021 and the company did not adequately address security issues from 2018. This caused a data breach two years later that exposed personal information of 2.5 million users. Rellas failed to shield consumer data and did not implement reasonable safeguards to protect its users even though they had publicly claimed that it had done so. 

These cybersecurity vulnerabilities are most popular with hackers right now – have you patched them? 

ZDNet: A software flaw in Microsoft Office continues to be one of the most popular security vulnerabilities among cybercriminals. This flaw (CVE-2017-11882) is over five years old and continues to be exploited because many businesses haven’t applied the security update. This vulnerability allows cybercriminals to drop malware secretly onto machines and uses phishing emails to trigger the bug.