Region brief for 2018-11-23

ASIA

1. US Says China Increased Hacking over Trade Dispute
2. North Korean Hackers Hit Latin American Banks
3. VMware fixed Workstation flaw disclosed at the Tianfu Cup PWN competition
4. Adobe Flash Player Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Threat Alert
5. VMware Patches Workstation Flaw Disclosed at Hacking Contest

OCEANIA

Nil

NORTH AMERICA

6. Data breach in OSIsoft
7. US Postal Service Plugs API Flaw - One Year Later
8. US Says China Increased Hacking over Trade Dispute
9. North Korean Hackers Hit Latin American Banks
10. VMware fixed Workstation flaw disclosed at the Tianfu Cup PWN competition
11. New Emotet Thanksgiving campaign differs from previous ones
12. US Postal Service Website Left Data Exposed for Over a Year
13. Hacker says USPS ignored serious security flaw for over a year
14. Synthetic identity fraud to drive $48 billion in annual losses by 2023 – Juniper Research
15. Exclusive Cybaze ZLab – Yoroi – Hunting Cozy Bear, new campaign, old habits
16. Southwest Washington Regional Surgery Center suffered a Phishing attack
17. 60 million users’ data were exposed by the US Postal Service
18. The team discuss continuing activity by the Magecart group, as well as the ways in which #cybercriminals are gearing up

SOUTH AMERICA

19. Brazil's largest professional association suffers massive data leak

EUROPE

20. NUI Galway’s Problem: Misplaced USB Flash Drive Containing Unencrypted Student Records
21. New Crypto-Miner Attacks Linux Machines, Kills Other Miners and Anti-Malware
22. German e-government SDK patched against ID spoofing vulnerability
23. Phishing Used to Launch GreyEnergy's ICS Attacks
24. Ukrainian police arrest hacker who infected over 2,000 users with DarkComet RAT
25. Ukrainian police arrest hacker who infected over 2,000 users with DarkComet RAT
26. German eID vulnerability allows hackers to change identities
27. Exclusive Cybaze ZLab – Yoroi – Hunting Cozy Bear, new campaign, old habits

AFRICA

Nil