Weekly Cyber Security News 12/02/2021

A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. For a daily selection see our twitter feed at #ionCube24. Three quite interesting articles this week. The first is unsettling, if it wasn’t for someone spotting it in progress and was able to counteract the activity, who knows what might have happened. The question is then, who did it?:

• A hacker tried to poison Florida city’s water supply

An amazing supply chain attack, which unlike above, wasn’t conducted by a villain. Reveals some design flaws in package managers:

• Researcher hacks over 35 tech firms in novel supply chain attack

Bizarre obfuscation method spotted:

• New phishing attack uses Morse code to hide malicious URLs