Region brief for 2018-10-24

ASIA

1. Cathay Pacific breach leaks personal data on 9.4 million people
2. Democratic Fundraising Firm Leaks Voter Database, Clients, Fundraisers
3. Cathay Pacific Hit by Data Leak Affecting 9.4M Passengers
4. Russia Behind Triton Malware? A Cybersecurity Consulting Firm Confirms
5. Exploit kits: fall 2018 review
6. Russian Malware Used In An Attempt To Sabotage Saudi Petrol Plant
7. Weekly Threat Briefing: HealthCare.gov Suffered Data Breach As Hackers Stole 75,000 Records
8. Phishing for knowledge
9. Deadly Malware That Attacked Saudi Industrial Plant Came From Russia
10. Researchers: Russia is the initiator of ICS Attack Framework “TRITON” and Trisis
11. South Korea Seems Chief Target of the ‘Operation Oceansalt’ Campaign
12. Russian Government-owned research institute linked to Triton attacks
13. FireEye: Russian Research Lab Aided the Development of TRITON Industrial Malware
14. Drupal Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Threat Alert
15. China asks blockchain-based service providers to control user information

OCEANIA

16. ​Australian woman arrested over AU$450,000 Ripple theft
17. Phishing for knowledge

NORTH AMERICA

18. Warning: More iOS Devices Are Infected by Cryptocurrency Mining Malware
19. Hacker Guccifer, who exposed Clinton private email server, ready for US prison sentence
20. Meet Cryptojacking, the (not so) new kid on the block
21. Exploit kits: fall 2018 review
22. Pocket iNet Leaves 73 GB of Sensitive Data Exposed
23. Beers with Talos EP40: BWT XL feat. SuperMicro, Giant Patches, and More Mobile Malware
24. Yahoo to pay up to $85m to settle data breach lawsuit
25. Apple's Tim Cook: Our personal data is 'weaponized against us' by you-know-who
26. US government medical website was hacked that 75,000 personal data was stolen
27. Pocket iNet ISP exposed 73GB of data including secret keys, plain text passwords
28. Weekly Threat Briefing: HealthCare.gov Suffered Data Breach As Hackers Stole 75,000 Records
29. Phishing for knowledge
30. US Department of Defense Expands Bug Bounty Efforts
31. Join us, and @SentinelOne Nov 29, as we discuss fast acting #ransomware remediation, threat hunting, and #AI that stops incongruous
32. Deadly Malware That Attacked Saudi Industrial Plant Came From Russia
33. Researchers: Russia is the initiator of ICS Attack Framework “TRITON” and Trisis
34. ISP Provider Exposed 73 Gigabytes of Highly Sensitive Data Including To The Internet
35. South Korea Seems Chief Target of the ‘Operation Oceansalt’ Campaign
36. Survey: Nearly Half of U.S. Adults Experienced a Data Breach in the Past Three Years
37. China asks blockchain-based service providers to control user information

SOUTH AMERICA

38. Malware Targeting Brazil Uses Legitimate Windows Components WMI and CertUtil as Part of its Routine
39. Phishing for knowledge

EUROPE

40. Hacker Guccifer, who exposed Clinton private email server, ready for US prison sentence
41. Magecart hackers change tactic and target vulnerable Magento extensions
42. Russia Behind Triton Malware? A Cybersecurity Consulting Firm Confirms
43. Supermarket told it must compensate 100,000 workers after payroll data deliberately leaked by rogue employee
44. New Malware Targets Industrial Control Systems
45. Yahoo to pay up to $85m to settle data breach lawsuit
46. Russian Malware Used In An Attempt To Sabotage Saudi Petrol Plant
47. Malware Targeting Brazil Uses Legitimate Windows Components WMI and CertUtil as Part of its Routine
48. "The resurgence of #VPNFilter #botnet appears to be limited to the Ukraine, but given the ease of infecting targeted systems,
49. Morrisons supermarket: We're taking payroll leak liability fight to UK Supreme Court
50. Weekly Threat Briefing: HealthCare.gov Suffered Data Breach As Hackers Stole 75,000 Records
51. Phishing for knowledge
52. Magecart Attackers Exploit Magento Zero-Days
53. Deadly Malware That Attacked Saudi Industrial Plant Came From Russia
54. Researchers: Russia is the initiator of ICS Attack Framework “TRITON” and Trisis
55. Russian Government-owned research institute linked to Triton attacks
56. FireEye: Russian Research Lab Aided the Development of TRITON Industrial Malware
57. Marine diesel engines software developed by Auto Maskin has serious vulnerabilities

AFRICA

58. Phishing for knowledge