Nov 25, 2018

Threat report for 2018-11-24

DATA BREACH & DATA LOSS

Nil

DENIAL-OF-SERVICE

Nil

MALVERTISING

Nil

PHISHING

  1. This week's #RiskAndRepeatPodcast digs into the debate over #WeakPasswords and password reuse, and asks: how much are users responsible for

WEB DEFACEMENT

Nil

BOTNET

Nil

RANSOMWARE

  1. Quebec Dubbed As An Embarrassment After Paying $30,000 To Ransomware Authors
  2. Powerful Mobile Malware Rotexy Launched over 70,000 Attacks with Banking Trojan & Ransomware Modules
  3. .@TalosSecurity recently created a #decryptor that helps files affected by the #ransomware #Thanatos -- typically known to not decrypt files
  4. SMBs suffered the brunt of ransomware attacks in 2018
  5. The Week in Ransomware - November 23rd 2018 - STOP, Dharma, and More

CRYPTOMINING & CRYPTOCURRENCIES

Nil

MALWARE

  1. Powerful Mobile Malware Rotexy Launched over 70,000 Attacks with Banking Trojan & Ransomware Modules
  2. TA505 Cybercrime Group Experimenting with a New RAT In The Wild
  3. Researchers at @okta found a bypass that allows #ThreatActors to pose files as legitimate @Apple files despite being #malware and
  4. 42-year-old man Arrested For Hacking More than 2,000 Computers From 50 countries With DarkComet RAT
  5. New Trojan mining on the Linux will steal user passwords & removes anti-viruses

EXPLOIT

Nil

VULNERABILITY

  1. Adobe Patched A Critical Flash Player Vulnerability Disclosed Publicly
  2. MacOS Penetration Test Reveals Three Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
  3. CVE-2018-19406, CVE-2018-19407: Two DoS vulnerabilities on Linux Kernel
  4. How has the @DLink #router vulnerability affected your enterprise?