Oct 11, 2018

Region brief for 2018-10-10

ASIA

  1. KeyBoy Abuses Popular Office Exploits for Malware Delivery
  2. The Many Faces of Necurs: How the Botnet Spewed Millions of Spam Emails for Cyber Extortion
  3. Thieves and Geeks: Russian and Chinese Hacking Communities
  4. WTB: Phishing Attack Uses Azure Blob Storage To Impersonate Microsoft
  5. MuddyWater expands operations
  6. Group-IB: $49.4 million of damage caused to Russia’s financial sector from cyber attacks
  7. Leak reveals Google's Chinese search engine is months away from launch

OCEANIA

  1. My Health Record justifications 'kind of lame': Godwin

NORTH AMERICA

  1. Rapidly Evolving Ransomware GandCrab Version 5 Partners With Crypter Service for Obfuscation
  2. Campaign 2018: These hacking groups could target the 2018 midterm elections
  3. Top 5 ThreatConnect Resources for Malware Analysis
  4. The Many Faces of Necurs: How the Botnet Spewed Millions of Spam Emails for Cyber Extortion
  5. Thieves and Geeks: Russian and Chinese Hacking Communities
  6. CVE-2018-8453 Zero-Day flaw exploited by FruityArmor APT in attacks aimed at Middle East
  7. Rebound Orthopedics & Neurosurgery hacked; 2,800 records exposed
  8. Security Vulnerabilities in US Weapons Systems
  9. Don't make us pay compensation for employee data breach, Morrisons begs UK court
  10. WTB: Phishing Attack Uses Azure Blob Storage To Impersonate Microsoft
  11. MuddyWater expands operations
  12. Group-IB: $49.4 million of damage caused to Russia’s financial sector from cyber attacks
  13. Zero-day exploit (CVE-2018-8453) used in targeted attacks
  14. Acorus Network protects enterprises and service providers from DDoS attacks

SOUTH AMERICA

  1. Group-IB: $49.4 million of damage caused to Russia’s financial sector from cyber attacks

EUROPE

  1. Cyber Fraud Ring Used Phishing to Steal $4 Million, Alleged Leader Faces Charges
  2. A Google security audit uncovered a glitch in Google+ that exposed data from nearly 500,000 accounts. Ping CTO West @baber
  3. The Many Faces of Necurs: How the Botnet Spewed Millions of Spam Emails for Cyber Extortion
  4. Thieves and Geeks: Russian and Chinese Hacking Communities
  5. CVE-2018-8453 Zero-Day flaw exploited by FruityArmor APT in attacks aimed at Middle East
  6. New Threat Insight research: German-language threats span #phishing, BEC, #malware, and more...
  7. A @Google #SecurityAudit uncovered privacy flaws and potential exposure of #PersonalData, leading to API changes, the shutdown of #GooglePlus and
  8. Don't make us pay compensation for employee data breach, Morrisons begs UK court
  9. WTB: Phishing Attack Uses Azure Blob Storage To Impersonate Microsoft
  10. MuddyWater expands operations
  11. Ubisoft Hit With DDoS Attack During The Launch of Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey
  12. Magecart Hits Popular Customer Review Plugin
  13. A #Google security audit uncovered a glitch in #GooglePlus that exposed data from nearly 500,000 accounts, causing the company to
  14. Group-IB: $49.4 million of damage caused to Russia’s financial sector from cyber attacks
  15. '5,000 UK firms' financial details exposed in data breaches' http://www.cityam.com/264491/uk-business-emails-could-represent-major-cyber-security … @CityAM Read the full research report here:
  16. Shopper Approved, the new victim of the Magecart hacking group

AFRICA

  1. MuddyWater expands operations