China accuses the US of installing backdoors in a Wuhan lab. NetScaler backdoors are found. A Phishing scam targets executives. LinkedIn sees a surge in account hijacking. Raccoon Stealer gets an update. Cryptocurrency recovery scams. We kick off our new Learning Layer segment with N2K’s Sam Meisenberg. And a Moscow court fines Reddit and Wikipedia, for unwelcome content about Russia's war.
For links to all of today's stories check out our CyberWire daily news briefing:
https://thecyberwire.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/12/156
Ministry warns of data security risks after US agencies identified behind cyberattack on Wuhan Earthquake Monitoring Center (Global Times)
China accuses U.S. intelligence agencies as source behind Wuhan cybersecurity attack (ZDNET)
China teases imminent exposé of seismic US spying scheme (Register)
2,000 Citrix NetScaler Instances Backdoored via Recent Vulnerability (SecurityWeek)
Cloud Account Takeover Campaign Leveraging EvilProxy Targets Top-Level Executives at over 100 Global Organizations (Proofpoint)
LinkedIn Accounts Under Attack (Cyberint)
LinkedIn faces surge of account hijacking (Computing)
LinkedIn accounts hacked in widespread hijacking campaign (BleepingComputer)
Raccoon Stealer malware returns with new stealthier version (BleepingComputer)
FBI warns of increasing cryptocurrency recovery scams (BleepingComputer)
Russia slaps Reddit, Wikipedia with fines (Cybernews)
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