Cybersecurity Threats and Responses

Threat actors use a malicious Pidgin plugin to deliver malware. The BlackByte ransomware group is exploiting a recently patched VMware ESXi  vulnerability. The State Department offers a $2.5 million reward for a major malware distributor. A Swiss industrial manufacturer suffers a cyberattack. The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) responds to claims of data theft by the Hunters International ransomware gang. Park’N Fly reports a data breach affecting 1 million customers. Black Lotus Labs documents the active exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability in Versa Director servers. Federal law enforcement agencies warn that Iran-based cyber actors continue to exploit U.S. and foreign organizations. We kick off our new educational CertByte segment with hosts Chris Hare and George Monsalvatge. Precrime detectives root out election related misinformation before it happens. 

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CyberWire Guest

On today’s show, our guests are N2K's Chris Hare and George Monsalvatge introducing our new bi-weekly CertByte segments that kick off today on the CyberWire Daily podcast.

CertByte Segment

Welcome to CertByte! On this bi-weekly segment hosted by Chris Hare, a content developer and project management specialist at N2K, we share practice questions from our suite of industry-leading content and a study tip to help you achieve the professional certifications you need to fast-track your career growth.

In each segment, Chris is joined by an N2K Content Developer to help illustrate the learning. This week, Chris is joined by George Monsalvatge to break down a question targeting the Project Management Professional (PMP)® certification by the Project Management Institute®. Today’s question comes from N2K’s PMI® Project Management Professional (PMP®) Practice Test.

The PMP® is the global gold standard certification typically targeted for those who have about three to five years of project management experience. To learn more about this and other related topics under this objective, please refer to the following resource: Project Management Institute - Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.

Have a question that you’d like to see covered? Email us at certbyte@n2k.com. If you're studying for a certification exam, check out N2K’s full exam prep library of certification practice tests, practice labs, and training courses by visiting our website at n2k.com/certify.

Please note: The questions and answers provided here, and on our site, are not actual current or prior questions and answers from these certification publishers or providers.

Selected Reading

 Malware Delivered via Malicious Pidgin Plugin, Signal Fork (SecurityWeek)

BlackByte Hackers Exploiting VMware ESXi Auth Bypass Flaw to Deploy Ransomware (Cyber Security News)

US Offering $2.5 Million Reward for Belarusian Malware Distributor (SecurityWeek)

Services at Swiss manufacturer Schlatter disrupted in likely ransomware attack (SiliconANGLE)

US Marshals say data posted by ransomware gang not from 'new or undisclosed incident' (The Record)

Park’N Fly notifies 1 million customers of data breach (Bleeping Computer)

Taking the Crossroads: The Versa Director Zero-Day Exploitation (Lumen)

Iran-based Cyber Actors Enabling Ransomware Attacks on US Organizations (CISA)

Hundreds of 'PreCrime' Election-Related Fraud Sites Spotted (Metacurity)

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