Threat report for 2018-11-03

DATA BREACH & DATA LOSS

1. Weekly Threat Briefing: HealthCare.gov Suffered Data Breach As Hackers Stole 75,000 Records
2. Business Email Compromise: Must-Have Defenses
3. Radisson Suffers Global Loyalty Program Data Breach
4. Android Devices Remain Unsecured, While Two Botnets Fight For Dominance
5. Discover how #NetSpectre attacks leak data remotely via side-channels with Michael Cobb of @thehairyITdog.

DENIAL-OF-SERVICE

Nil

MALVERTISING

Nil

PHISHING

6. New Trickbot Malware Steal Password & Other Sensitive Data From Microsoft Outlook,Chrome,Firefox, IE, Edge

WEB DEFACEMENT

Nil

BOTNET

7. "The resurgence of #VPNFilter #botnet appears to be limited to the Ukraine, but given the ease of infecting targeted systems,

RANSOMWARE

8. SamSam ransomware continues to make damages. Call it targeted Ransomware
9. #SamSam #ransomware targeted 67 organizations in 2018, according to @symantec research. By @MaddieBacon11
10. #Kraken #ransomware as a service is getting more popular after being bundled into the Fallout #ExploitKit and getting more update
11. The Week in Ransomware - November 2nd 2018 - RaaS, DiskCryptor, & More

CRYPTOMINING & CRYPTOCURRENCIES

12. Blockchain as a Tool for Cybersecurity
13. #Kraken #ransomware as a service is getting more popular after being bundled into the Fallout #ExploitKit and getting more update

MALWARE

14. Web domain owners paid EasyDNS to cloak their contact info from sight. It was blabbed via public Whois anyway
15. BBC micro:bit vendor Kitronik says customers' deets nicked, fingers Magecart malware
16. Gotta love how Robert Tappan Morris describes his Morris worm background in his bio: ”In 1988 his discovery of buffer
17. New Trickbot Malware Steal Password & Other Sensitive Data From Microsoft Outlook,Chrome,Firefox, IE, Edge

EXPLOIT

18. Intel CPUs Fall To New Hyperthreading Exploit That Pilfers Keys

VULNERABILITY

19. The Responsible Disclosure of Software Vulnerabilities in the Nutshell
20. .@Siemens central plant clocks were affected by six SICLOCK flaws, three have been rated "critical." Learn what these SICLOCK flaws
21. Six flaws were recently found in @Siemens SICLOCK central plant clocks. Learn what these clocks do, which clocks were infected
22. Researchers say #Bleedingbit vulnerabilities could allow #RemoteCodeExecution on wireless access points, medical devices and any other products using the affected