Platform report for 2018-11-01

WINDOWS

1. Trickbot Malware Now Also Steals Passwords From Apps, Web Browsers
2. Emotet Malware, the Most Probable Malware of the Year
3. More Typo-Squatting Malware Found on PyPI
4. Windows Defender Bug Needs a Restart, Not Shutdown, To Enable Sandbox
5. Healthcare Industry Continues To Be the Favourite for Ransomware
6. Trickbot Shows Off New Trick: Password Grabber Module
7. SamSam Attackers Have Hit 67 Ransomware Targets
8. Talos Vulnerability Deep Dive - TALOS-2018-0636 / CVE-2018-3971 Sophos HitmanPro.Alert vulnerability
9. Perl-Based Shellbot Looks to Target Organizations via C&C

LINUX

10. Open Letter to Francisco Partners: Continued Misuse of NSO Group’s Pegasus Technology
11. DOJ indictment spotlights China’s civilian intel agency – and its hacker recruits
12. 0x20k of Ghost Squad Hackers Releases ODay Exploit Targeting Apache Hadoop
13. Perl-Based Shellbot Looks to Target Organizations via C&C

UNIX

Nil

ANDROID

14. Government employee who used to watch porn at work alleged guilty of infecting with malware a network
15. Perl-Based Shellbot Looks to Target Organizations via C&C

IOS

Nil

MACOS

Nil