Sep 26, 2018

Region brief for 2018-09-25

ASIA

  1. Snyk gets $22 million for platform that tracks security flaws in open source projects
  2. Security Engineer Hacks Hotel WiFi, Fined for Exposing Admin Password
  3. Off-the-shelf RATs Targeting Pakistan
  4. Malicious Documents from Lazarus Group Targeting South Korea
  5. GZipDe: An Encrypted Downloader Serving Metasploit
  6. More Details on an ActiveX Vulnerability Recently Used to Target Users in South Korea
  7. USB threats from malware to miners

OCEANIA

Nothing to report

NORTH AMERICA

  1. Ex-NSA Hacker Sentenced to Jail Over Kaspersky Leak
  2. Astaroth Trojan Resurges in South America
  3. Man gets two years in prison for sabotaging US Army servers with 'logic bomb'
  4. Malware Analysis using Osquery Part 1
  5. MassMiner Malware Targeting Web Servers
  6. 14 years prison for man who helped hackers evade detection by anti-virus software
  7. SHEIN-Fashion Shopping Site Suffers Data Breach Affecting 6.5 Million Users
  8. 14 years prison for man who helped hackers evade detection by anti-virus software

SOUTH AMERICA

Nothing to report

EUROPE

  1. Operator of Scan4You Malware-Scanning sentenced to 14 Years in prison
  2. Snyk gets $22 million for platform that tracks security flaws in open source projects
  3. Security In The Crypto World: Exchanges, Wallets, Personal Data. Kiev To Host The Largest Cybersecurity Forum In Eastern Europe
  4. #SecurityNews: Scottish #Brewery recovers from #ransomware attack. #Arran Brewery in Scotland, received what they thought was a cover letter as part of a job application, but the email attachment contained malware. Read more here: https://bit.ly/2PYAR7k
  5. Baddies just need one email account with clout to unleash phishing hell
  6. 14 years prison for man who helped hackers evade detection by anti-virus software
  7. New malware-as-a-service, Black Rose Lucy targets Android devices

AFRICA

  1. BrandPost: Malicious Tactics Have Evolved: Your DNS Needs to, Too