Threat Source newsletter (Jan. 5, 2023): Digging out of our inboxes
Summary: Cisco Talos released its 2022 Year in Review report on December 14, alongside a Ukraine Topic Summary Report, and is running a livestream series on its findings, with the next session on APTs scheduled for January 10 at 12pm ET. The newsletter also notes LockBit apologized for an affiliate's attack on the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and offered a free decryptor, Meta was fined over $4 million by Ireland's Data Protection Commission for GDPR breaches involving transparency and behavioral advertising, and PyTorch urged users of PyTorch-nightly to uninstall a counterfeit 'torchtriton' dependency.
Bottom line: Talos states plainly that adversaries are adapting to geopolitical shifts, law enforcement actions, and defender efforts - meaning the ransomware and APT behaviors your controls were tuned against last year are already moving, and a $4 million GDPR fine for transparency failures shows regulators are pricing data handling errors in real money.
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