Region brief for 2018-11-20

ASIA

1. ESET: Vietnamese hacking group hijacks Southeast Asian sites in watering hole campaign
2. 200K Outlaw Botnet Uses SSH Brute Forcing to Propagate, Monero Mining for Profit
3. Malvertising in Apple Pay Targets iPhone Users
4. Kaspersky Security Bulletin: Threat Predictions for 2019
5. Experts analyzed how Iranian OilRIG hackers tested their weaponized documents

OCEANIA

6. Zscaler ThreatLabZ Phishing Roundup

NORTH AMERICA

7. APT29 Re-Emerges After 2 Years with Widespread Espionage Campaign
8. Russia’s Elite Hackers May Have New Phishing Tricks
9. Web skimmers compete in Umbro Brasil hack
10. Inspiring Gender Diversity at Women of the Channel Leadership Summit
11. Hackers Linked to Russia Impersonate US Officials
12. Russian hackers are trying out this new malware against US and European targets
13. Russian hackers are trying out this new malware against US and European targets
14. Russian APT activity is resurgent, researchers say
15. Report: Emotet makes phishing lures more convincing by scraping victims' emails
16. Sofacy Continues Global Attacks and Wheels Out New ‘Cannon’ Trojan
17. Lazarus Continues Heists, Mounts Attacks on Financial Organizations in Latin America
18. Zscaler ThreatLabZ Phishing Roundup
19. Kaspersky Security Bulletin: Threat Predictions for 2019
20. Experts analyzed how Iranian OilRIG hackers tested their weaponized documents
21. Confiant spots major malvertising attack
22. Google, Target Hit by Twitter Bitcoin Scam Account Hacks

SOUTH AMERICA

Nil

EUROPE

23. 200K Outlaw Botnet Uses SSH Brute Forcing to Propagate, Monero Mining for Profit
24. Infamous Russian Hacking Group Used New Trojan in Recent Attacks
25. APT29 Re-Emerges After 2 Years with Widespread Espionage Campaign
26. Voxox leak: Millions of SMS messages exposed
27. Russia’s Elite Hackers May Have New Phishing Tricks
28. Government Agencies and Think Tanks attacked, APT29 suspected
29. An Introduction to Magecart
30. Hackers Linked to Russia Impersonate US Officials
31. Two Young Men Jailed for Involvement in TalkTalk Data Breach
32. Russian hackers are trying out this new malware against US and European targets
33. TEMP.Periscope Spearphishing
34. Russian hackers are trying out this new malware against US and European targets
35. Russian APT activity is resurgent, researchers say
36. Sofacy Continues Global Attacks and Wheels Out New ‘Cannon’ Trojan
37. Dutch audit finds Microsoft Office leaks confidential data
38. Kaspersky Security Bulletin: Threat Predictions for 2019
39. Cozy Bear tracks: Phishing campaign looks like work of Russian APT group
40. Two TalkTalk hackers jailed for 2015 data breach that cost it £77 million

AFRICA

Nil