Region brief for 2018-10-30

ASIA

1. Fallout Exploit Kit Releases the Kraken Ransomware on Its Victims
2. Kraken Cryptor Ransomware Gains Popularity Among Cybercriminals
3. Parties Seek to Settle Yahoo Data Breach Class Action for $50M
4. macOS Cryptomining Malware on the Rise
5. Ransomware Threat Continues: How Infections Take Place
6. .@FireEye security researchers claimed the Russian government was 'most likely' behind the #Triton #Malware attack on an industrial control system
7. Cell Phone Security and Heads of State
8. Disrupting the Flow: Exposed and Vulnerable Water and Energy Infrastructures

OCEANIA

Nil

NORTH AMERICA

9. Kraken Cryptor Ransomware Gains Popularity Among Cybercriminals
10. Girl Scouts data breach exposed personal information of 2,800 members
11. SamSam ransomware group has hit 67 organizations in 2018, researchers say
12. Parties Seek to Settle Yahoo Data Breach Class Action for $50M
13. Bitcoin Dealer Who Operated Unlicensed Bitcoin Exchange Faces Five Years in Jail
14. Malware Targeting Smartphones via Three DSP Providers
15. macOS Cryptomining Malware on the Rise
16. Malware Infection at USGS Traced to Employee’s Habit of Viewing Adult Content
17. Ransomware Threat Continues: How Infections Take Place
18. New SamSam ransomware campaign aims at targets across the US
19. Employee Watched Porn at Work via 9000 Web pages Drops Malware on U.S Government Network
20. Treat or Trick? Six Dangerous Digital Threats Dressed up As Irresistible Treats
21. SamSam: Targeted Ransomware Attacks Continue
22. Is it a Phish? Halloween Edition
23. Threat Report: Jaff Ransomware Causes Havoc
24. Cell Phone Security and Heads of State
25. Millions of Voter Records Up for Sale Ahead of the US Midterm Elections
26. There are plenty of different types of phishing attacks, but they all rely on the same basic mechanism: exploiting human
27. 92% of External Web Apps Have Exploitable Security Flaws or Weaknesses: Report
28. Disrupting the Flow: Exposed and Vulnerable Water and Energy Infrastructures
29. The author of the Mirai botnet gets six months of house arrest
30. A good insight for Europeans on the process of the US mid-term elections and whether or it they are hackable

SOUTH AMERICA

31. Fallout Exploit Kit Releases the Kraken Ransomware on Its Victims
32. Kraken Cryptor Ransomware Gains Popularity Among Cybercriminals
33. Ransomware Threat Continues: How Infections Take Place

EUROPE

34. Fallout Exploit Kit Releases the Kraken Ransomware on Its Victims
35. Kraken Cryptor Ransomware Gains Popularity Among Cybercriminals
36. .@FireEye security researchers claimed the Russian government was 'most likely' behind the #Triton #Malware attack on an industrial control system
37. Treat or Trick? Six Dangerous Digital Threats Dressed up As Irresistible Treats
38. A fed visited 9,000 porn sites, infecting government networks with Russian malware
39. Threat Report: Jaff Ransomware Causes Havoc
40. Cell Phone Security and Heads of State
41. Disrupting the Flow: Exposed and Vulnerable Water and Energy Infrastructures
42. The author of the Mirai botnet gets six months of house arrest
43. The Russian built #VPNFilter #botnet was previously taken down after 500,000 routers were infected. However, recently it attempted a comeback.

AFRICA

44. Cell Phone Security and Heads of State
45. Anonymous knocks out Gabon government sites with DoS attack