Region brief for 2018-09-27

ASIA

1. APT10 Targeting Japanese Corporations Using Updated TTPs
2. New Torii Botnet uncovered, more sophisticated than Mirai | Avast
3. “Disturbing plans” in China revealed by a former Google employee

OCEANIA

Nothing to report

NORTH AMERICA

4. DEF CON report finds decade-old flaw in widely used ballot-counting machine
5. GDPR: Data Breach Class Action Lawsuits Come to Europe
6. SheIn Data Breach Exposed Personal Details 6.4 Million Customers To Hackers
7. You should prepare for the next mega data breach
8. Uber agrees to pay $148 million in massive 2016 data breach settlement
9. “Disturbing plans” in China revealed by a former Google employee

SOUTH AMERICA

Nothing to report

EUROPE

10. Russians' stealthy 'LoJax' malware can infect on the firmware level
11. Russian Cyberspies Use UEFI Rootkit in Attacks
12. Threat-group Magecart - More Victims
13. Russian Sednit APT used the first UEFI rootkit of ever in attacks in the wild
14. Norwegian state discusses vulnerabilities with IT sector
15. Seven additional modules make Fancy Bear's VPNFilter malware even more versatile
16. VPNFilter Router Malware Adds 7 New Network Exploitation Modules

AFRICA

Nothing to report