What we’re reading this month: June 2022

ReliaQuest analysts present a monthly intelligence roundup covering three main items: Microsoft’s 2022 lessons from the Russia–Ukraine cyberwar (detailing Russian TTPs, influence operations, and cloud resilience), recent systemic turmoil in the cryptocurrency market, and Cisco Talos’s analysis of an AvosLocker ransomware campaign that expanded capabilities (Linux variant, exploitation of Log4Shell, use of tools like DarkComet, Mimikatz, Cobalt Strike, and misconfigured defensive tooling). The piece stresses the need for coordinated public-private defense and correct security tool configuration.