A not so BASIC farewell.

META details its efforts against pig butchering. The Salt Typhoon attack on major U.S. telecoms sparks interest from Congress.  Microsoft dismantles 240 domains linked to the ONNX phishing-as-a-service platform. A major U.S. gambling and lottery provider suffers a cyberattack. Hackers exploit newly patched zero-days in Palo Alto Networks firewalls. Researchers say Fortinet VPN servers lack sufficient logging. A pilot program looks to improve security for small U.S. water utilities. Bitdefender warns of scammers using Black Friday-themed spam emails. Our guest is DataDome’s CEO and Co-founder, Benjamin Fabre, discussing how "Fake Accounts Threaten Black Friday Gaming Sales." A fond farewell for a true cyber innovator. 

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CyberWire Guest

In advance of Black Friday shopping next week, our guest is  DataDome’s CEO and Co-founder, Benjamin Fabre discussing their team's work on "Fake Accounts Threaten Black Friday Gaming Sales." 

Selected Reading

Meta cracks down on millions of accounts it tied to pig-butchering scams (CyberScoop)

China’s Hacking Reached Deep Into U.S. Telecoms (New York Times)

FCC leaders skirt call for wiretap security reform, hope to ‘go deeper’ on telecom breach briefings (NextGov)

Microsoft disrupts ONNX phishing-as-a-service infrastructure (Bleeping Computer)

Gambling and lottery giant disrupted by cyberattack, working to bring systems back online (The Record)

Over 2,000 Palo Alto firewalls hacked using recently patched bugs (Bleeping Computer)

Fortinet VPN design flaw hides successful brute-force attacks (Bleeping Computer)

First Water Utilities Take Volunteer Cyber Help (The University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy)

Three-Quarters of Black Friday Spam Emails Identified as Scams (Infosecurity Magazine)

Thomas E. Kurtz, a Creator of BASIC Computer Language, Dies at 96 (New York Times)

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