Oct 23, 2018

Region brief for 2018-10-22

ASIA

  1. Saudi Future Investment Initiative website defaced by the hackers
  2. Hackers Deface Website of Saudi Investment Forum
  3. How a Canadian permanent resident and Saudi Arabian dissident was targeted with powerful spyware on Canadian soil
  4. Rambus Vaultify Trade: Secure transaction and storage of crypto assets on blockchain
  5. A week in security (October 15 – 21)
  6. Oceansalt Attacks Infrastructure, Finance, Universities and Telecommunications
  7. Enigmatic cyber espionage campaign revives source code from old foe APT1
  8. WebLogic Remote Code Execution Vulnerability(CVE-2018-3245) Threat Alert
  9. India’s First Cryptocurrency ATM To Buy and Sell Cryptocurrencies

OCEANIA

Nil

NORTH AMERICA

  1. How a Canadian permanent resident and Saudi Arabian dissident was targeted with powerful spyware on Canadian soil
  2. US Tops Global Malware C2 Distribution
  3. A week in security (October 15 – 21)
  4. Oceansalt Attacks Infrastructure, Finance, Universities and Telecommunications
  5. Safeguarding the Nation’s Critical Infrastructure
  6. New Ethics Guidance for Lawyers from the American Bar Association (ABA) Regarding Data Breach and Cyber-attack
  7. The boom of fileless malware attacks: How can we fight it?
  8. Criminals Hijacked Records of 75 000 Users from
  9. Enigmatic cyber espionage campaign revives source code from old foe APT1
  10. 75,000 HealthCare.gov Users Exposed, Personal Information Stolen
  11. US Indicts Another Russian for Role in Info Warfare Campaign
  12. Anthem in Record $16m HIPAA Settlement
  13. Are you aware of #Canada's data breach regulations? Get up to speed on the #blog:

SOUTH AMERICA

Nil

EUROPE

  1. A week in security (October 15 – 21)
  2. The Russian built #VPNFilter #botnet was taken down by the @FBI after over 500,000 routers were infected. However, VPNFilter is
  3. iCloud Hacker Wants $175,000 Ransom to Be Paid In Bitcoin (BTC)
  4. Repairnator bot finds software bugs, successfully submits patches
  5. New APT GreyEnergy Found to Target EU Critical Systems, Linked to BlackEnergy
  6. US Indicts Another Russian for Role in Info Warfare Campaign

AFRICA

Nil