AiTM sets up BEC. Silent validation bots. Smishing attempt at the European Central Bank. Shields up in Berlin. Hacktivism in a hybrid war. Patch notes.

Adversary-in-the-middle sites support business email compromise. Silent validation carding bot discovered. Attempted social engineering at the European Central Bank. Germany puts its shields up. Carole Theriault speaks with Jen Caltrider about Mozilla's *Privacy Not Included initiative. Our guest is Lucia Milica on Proofpoint’s Voice of the CISO report. And Hacktivism in a hybrid war.

For links to all of today's stories check out our CyberWire daily news briefing:
https://thecyberwire.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/11/133

Selected reading.
From cookie theft to BEC: Attackers use AiTM phishing …

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