Nov 20, 2018

Sector brief for 2018-11-19

HEALTHCARE

  1. Not So Cozy: An Uncomfortable Examination of a Suspected APT29 Phishing Campaign
  2. SUNY Upstate Hospital announced a former employee inappropriately accessed more than 1,200 patient records.
  3. Texas hospital becomes victim of Dharma ransomware

TRANSPORT

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BANKING & FINANCE

  1. New Modular tRat Remote Access Trojan Surfaced During September
  2. Tianfu Cup PWN hacking contest – White hat hackers earn $1 Million for Zero-Day exploits
  3. Collective Intelligence Podcast, Vitali Kremez on Magecart
  4. Business email compromise scam costs Pathé $21.5 million
  5. Subject: Invoice. The cause of 6 out of 10 of the most effective phishing campaigns in 2018
  6. Vision Direct reveals customer credit card leak, fake Google script may be to blame
  7. Vision Direct Notifies Customers of Data Compromise
  8. Email campaign spreading new tRAT malware
  9. October 2018’s Most Wanted Malware: For The First Time, Remote Access Trojan Reaches Global Threat Index’s Top 10

INFORMATION & TELECOMMUNICATION

  1. U.S. warns countries not to 'manipulate the extradition process' for cybercriminals
  2. Tianfu Cup PWN hacking contest – White hat hackers earn $1 Million for Zero-Day exploits
  3. Instagram Flaw Exposes User Passwords
  4. Multiple Remote TP-Link TL-R600VPN Router Vulnerabilities Patched
  5. A week in security (November 12 – 18)
  6. Instagram Bug, Now Fixed, Exposed User Passwords
  7. The Most Damaging Election Disinformation Campaign Came From Donald Trump, Not Russia
  8. 2FA Login Failure in Office 365 and Azure
  9. SUNY Upstate Hospital announced a former employee inappropriately accessed more than 1,200 patient records.
  10. New ShadowTalk update looks at: New nation-state threat actor uses advanced TTPs to target Pakistan Lazarus Group’s FASTCash malware
  11. Cybaze ZLab – Yoroi team analyzed malware used in recent attacks on US entities attributed to APT29
  12. Outlaw Group Distributes Botnet for Cryptocurrency-Mining, Scanning, and Brute-Force
  13. Instagram flaw exposes user passwords
  14. Instagram Privacy Tool Exposed Passwords
  15. Proofpoint #ThreatInsight research: #sLoad and #Ramnit pairing in sustained personalized campaigns against UK and Italy:
  16. Instagram Accidentally Exposed Some User Passwords
  17. How #privacy intersects with #CyberSecurity. “Criminals can craft better phishing emails to scam you when they know what you’re interested in.”
  18. Instagram Critical Bug Leaked User’s Password Via its Data Download Tool
  19. Fun fact: The Morris Worm of 1988 did never spread to Finland, as the outbreak happened two weeks before we
  20. Instagram Accidentally Exposed Some Users' Passwords In Plaintext

FOOD

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WATER

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ENERGY

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GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC SERVICE

  1. Not So Cozy: An Uncomfortable Examination of a Suspected APT29 Phishing Campaign
  2. U.S. warns countries not to 'manipulate the extradition process' for cybercriminals
  3. The Most Damaging Election Disinformation Campaign Came From Donald Trump, Not Russia
  4. Cybaze ZLab – Yoroi team analyzed malware used in recent attacks on US entities attributed to APT29
  5. Russian Cozy Bear APT 29 hackers may be impersonating State Department
  6. Turkish Police Arrested Cryptocurrency Hackers