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An international law enforcement operation involving 11 countries has disrupted the spreading of the FluBot Android malware, which spreads via SMS and MMS and steals sensitive information - passwords, online banking details, etc. The Dutch Police, who took control of the malware's infrastructure earlier in May, made the malware inactive.

In this interview for Help Net Security, Dimitri van Zantvliet Rozemeijer, CISO at Nederlandse Spoorwegen, talks about railway cybersecurity and the progresses this industry has made to guarantee safety. How is railway cybersecurity fairing in this complex environment?

Russia's invasion on Ukraine has put a spotlight on threats to critical infrastructure, which thus far have been mostly physical, impacting water treatment, electricity, and nuclear plants. These threats to critical infrastructure may seem distant, but the involvement of the FBI shows they are not.

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The Five Eyes nations have released a joint cybersecurity advisory warning of increased malicious attacks from Russian state-sponsored actors and criminal groups targeting critical infrastructure organizations amidst the ongoing military siege on Ukraine. "Evolving intelligence indicates that the Russian government is exploring options for potential cyberattacks," authorities from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the U.K., and the U.S. said.

Cybersecurity Advisory warns of Russian-backed cyber threats to infrastructure. The cybersecurity authorities of the U.S., Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the U.K. released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory on April 20, warning organizations based in these countries that Russia's invasion of Ukraine could expose them to increased rates of malicious cyber activity.

The Five Eyes nations' cybersecurity agencies this week urged critical infrastructure to be ready for attacks by crews backed by or sympathetic to the Kremlin amid strong Western opposition to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. "Given recent intelligence indicating that the Russian government is exploring options for potential cyberattacks against US critical infrastructure, CISA along with our interagency and international partners are putting out this advisory to highlight the demonstrated threat and capability of Russian state-sponsored and Russian aligned cybercrime groups," CISA Director Jen Easterly said in a statement.

"Given recent intelligence indicating that the Russian government is exploring options for potential cyberattacks against U.S. critical infrastructure, CISA along with our interagency and international partners are putting out this advisory to highlight the demonstrated threat and capability of Russian state-sponsored and Russian aligned cybercrime groups," added CISA Director Jen Easterly. The Five Eyes cybersecurity agencies recommends measures critical infrastructure orgs should take to harden their defenses and protect their information technology and operational technology networks against Russian state-sponsored and criminal cyber threats, including ransomware, destructive malware, DDoS attacks, and cyber espionage.

US critical infrastructures targeted by complex malware. The Department of Energy, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the National Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are warning the US energy sector that certain APT threat actors have exhibited the capability to gain full system access to multiple industrial control system and supervisory control and data acquisition devices.

Cloud computing and virtualization technology firm VMWare on Thursday rolled out an update to resolve a critical security flaw in its Cloud Director product that could be weaponized to launch remote code execution attacks. "An authenticated, high privileged malicious actor with network access to the VMware Cloud Director tenant or provider may be able to exploit a remote code execution vulnerability to gain access to the server," VMware said in an advisory.