Bluepurple Pulse: week ending June 19th
Everything is awesome... Everything is cool when you're part of a team...
Welcome to the weekly highlights and analysis of the blueteamsec subreddit (and my wider reading).
Operationally this week nothing overly of note beyond an uptick in some criminal actor activity. Other threat actors continue business-as-usual including leveraging various recently disclosed vulnerabilities.
In the high-level this week:
Former Nato chief calls for economic version of Article 5 defence pledge - Proposal is intended to counter commercial coercion by countries such as Russia and China - if economic activity is considered below threshold / grey zone activity it will be interesting to see what the cyber version of this might be.
US defence group L3Harris is allegedly in talks to buy NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware - wash those prior sins away..
NSO v. WhatsApp: Should the Solicitor General Recommend Allowing Foreign Corporations to Claim Immunity? - A week ago Monday, the Supreme Court called for the views of the Solicitor General in NSO Group Technologies Ltd. v. WhatsApp Inc. The…
Keep reading with a 7-day free trial
Subscribe to Cyber Defence Analysis for Blue & Purple Teams to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.