Region brief for 2018-09-26

ASIA

1. Source Defense raises $10 million for website supply chain solution
2. Former NSA TAO hacker sentenced to 66 months in prison over Kaspersky Leak
3. Braking bad: Mitsubishi recalls 68k SUVs over buggy software
4. WTB: Adwind Trojan Circumvents Antivirus Software To Infect Your PC

OCEANIA

Nothing to report

NORTH AMERICA

5. Uber to pay $148 million to states for 2016 data breach
6. Bots at the Gate: A Human Rights Analysis of Automated Decision Making in Canada’s Immigration and Refugee System
7. Former NSA TAO hacker sentenced to 66 months in prison over Kaspersky Leak
8. Viro Botnet Ransomware
9. NSA dev in the clink for 5.5 years after letting Kaspersky, allegedly Russia slurp US exploits
10. Braking bad: Mitsubishi recalls 68k SUVs over buggy software
11. Rockwell Automation Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
12. Snyk raises $22 million to address security vulnerabilities in open source code

SOUTH AMERICA

Nothing to report

EUROPE

13. DDoS Attack on German Energy Company RWE
14. DDoS Attack on German Energy Company RWE
15. Ex-NSA employee sentenced to 5.5 years in prison for leaking confidential data
16. Source Defense raises $10 million for website supply chain solution
17. NSA dev in the clink for 5.5 years after letting Kaspersky, allegedly Russia slurp US exploits
18. Aggregate this: NewsNow has spilt a bunch of 'encrypted' passwords
19. WTB: Adwind Trojan Circumvents Antivirus Software To Infect Your PC
20. VPNFilter III: More Tools for the Swiss Army Knife of Malware
21. Snyk raises $22 million to address security vulnerabilities in open source code

AFRICA

Nothing to report