Cozy Bear campaigns continue. Facebook outages caused by internal error. Twitch breached.

Cozy Bear campaigns continue.The Russian threat group that successfully exploited vulnerabilities in SolarWinds last year (an SVR unit familiarly known as either Cozy Bear or Berserk Bear) is said, by Mandiant, to again be working against Western targets. CNN quotes Mandiant’s Charles Carmakal as saying, “The group has compromised multiple government entities, organizations that focus on political and foreign policy matters, and technology providers that provide direct or indirect access to the ultimate target organizations within North America and Europe.”A second, related CNN report, citing new research by Microsoft, suggests that Russian government cyberespionage groups are enjoying satisfying (for them) levels of success against Western targets. Russia, with China running second, is “still comfortable leaning into nation-state attacks.”Facebook outages caused by internal error.Facebook and its subsidiaries Instagram and WhatsApp suffered widespread, lengthy outages on Monday, the Wall Street Journal reports. The incident doesn’t appear to have been the result of an attack, but rather, as initial speculation tended to regard it, as the consequence of an internal error. Facebook tweeted its apologies mid-outage, and its engineering team explained the incident as follows: “Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused issues that interrupted this communication. This disruption…
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