Region brief for 2018-10-17

ASIA

1. AISA 2018: Japan's journey from a cryptocurrency hack to better regulation
2. New research highlights Vietnamese group's custom hacking tools
3. Meet GreyEnergy, the newest hacking group hitting Ukraine’s power grid
4. WhiteSource raises $35 million for open source flaw detection platform
5. Top 5 Publicly Accessible Hacking Tools You Can Download Today
6. WTB: MuddyWater Expands Operations
7. Git RCE Vulnerability (CVE-2018-17456)Security Advisory

OCEANIA

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NORTH AMERICA

8. LuminosityLink RAT Author Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison
9. MartyMcFly Malware: new Cyber-Espionage Campaign targeting Italian Naval Industry
10. 35 Million US Voter Registration Records Found for Sale on Dark Web
11. Podcast: A Utility Ransomware Attack, Post-Hurricane
12. How Office 365 learned to reel in phish
13. Meet GreyEnergy, the newest hacking group hitting Ukraine’s power grid
14. 35 million US voter records up for sale on the dark web
15. SEO Poisoning Campaign Targeting U.S. Midterm Election Keywords
16. 35 million voter records from 19 US states for sale
17. Insult to injury: Malware menace soaks water-logged utility ravaged by Hurricane Florence
18. WTB: MuddyWater Expands Operations
19. US Voter Records for Sale on Hacker Forum
20. Brazil expert discovers Oracle flaw that allows massive DDoS attacks
21. Millions of US Voter Records for Sale
22. 35 Million U.S Voter Records Selling in Popular Dark web Hacking Forum from $150 USD to $12,500 USD
23. A crippling ransomware attack hit a water utility in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence
24. Vulnerability in voting machines has not been corrected after 11 years

SOUTH AMERICA

25. Brazil expert discovers Oracle flaw that allows massive DDoS attacks

EUROPE

26. MartyMcFly Malware: new Cyber-Espionage Campaign targeting Italian Naval Industry
27. 'GreyEnergy' Cyberspies Target Ukraine, Poland
28. 3 Years After Attacks on Ukraine Power Grid, BlackEnergy Successor Poses Growing Threat
29. Information of 396K Users Exposed in Facepunch Data Breach
30. Meet GreyEnergy, the newest hacking group hitting Ukraine’s power grid
31. Who is to blame for the majority of data breaches?
32. Attackers identified in the pre-espionage stage of CNI attack
33. WTB: MuddyWater Expands Operations
34. GreyEnergy group targeting critical infrastructure with espionage
35. Millions of US Voter Records for Sale
36. Russian Hackers Attack Specialist in Customer Review Tied to Innumerable Websites
37. Sony has solved the crash of PS4 receiving malicious message

AFRICA

38. WTB: MuddyWater Expands Operations