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March 2024

Unraveling Cyber Intrigue: Decoding the Complexities of State-Sponsored Hacking Groups

Join us as we uncover the intricate web of state-sponsored hacking groups and the hidden motivations driving their actions. Explore insights from recent revelations, including examples from China dating back to 2012-2013, where various government agencies sponsored competing hacking groups. In this eye-opening discussion, we delve into the financial motivations behind these operations and shed light on the key players pulling the strings. From government agencies vying for dominance to clandestine funding sources, the landscape of cyber intrigue is more complex than meets the eye.

Snowflake Breach: Examination of 'whitewarlock' claims

According to the latest news, the cloud-based data storage and analytics giant Snowflake has supposedly suffered a breach according to researchers that interacted with a certain Threat Actor known as ‘whitewarlock’ on the deep web hacking forum ‘exploitin’. Cyberint found the original compromised machine potentially exploited by ‘whitewarlock’. Over 500 demo environment instances were found included in the malware log.