News Insights: FBI warns US defense industry about attacks by FIN7 cybercriminal group

Bleeping Computers recently reported that the The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned US companies in a recently updated flash alert that the financially motivated FIN7 cybercriminal group targeted the US defense industry with packages containing malicious USB devices to deploy ransomware.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-hackers-use-badusb-to-target-defense-firms-with-ransomware/

News Insights:

Purandar Das, Co-founder and CEO of Sotero, an encryption-based security solutions company, said, “This seems like a step back in terms of attack sophistication. In a time when attacks are being executed leveraging third part and open-source software components this seems like a step back in to a bygone era where the attack depended on a human failure or event to start. It may have been an attempt to capitalize on lowered guards when everyone is focused on talking about the more sophisticated attacks. Regardless, this demonstrated that the attackers will leave no avenue unexploited. It also demonstrates the potential for pay off’s that the attackers are willing to invest in USB drives and physical mailing costs.”