Oct 22, 2018

APT report for 2018-10-21

TRANSNATIONAL / UNKNOWN

  1. DarkPulsar and other NSA hacking tools used in hacking operations in the wild

CHINA

  1. Security Affairs newsletter Round 185 – News of the week

INDIA

Nil

NORTH KOREA

Nil

PAKISTAN

Nil

VIETNAM

Nil

IRAN

Nil

IRAQ

Nil

LEBANON

Nil

PALESTINE

Nil

SAUDI ARABIA

Nil

SYRIA

Nil

TURKEY

Nil

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Nil

YEMEN

Nil

RUSSIA

  1. GreyEnergy Malware Targets Energy and Transport Providers
  2. Security Affairs newsletter Round 185 – News of the week

SERBIA

Nil

UKRAINE

Nil

Platform report for 2018-10-21

WINDOWS

  1. DarkPulsar and other NSA hacking tools used in hacking operations in the wild

LINUX

Nil

UNIX

Nil

ANDROID

Nil

IOS

  1. Security Affairs newsletter Round 185 – News of the week

MACOS

Nil

Threat report for 2018-10-21

DATA BREACH & DATA LOSS

  1. HealthCare.gov Suffered Data Breach As Hackers Stole 75,000 Records
  2. Week in review: Pentagon data breach, cybersecurity workforce gap, who gets spear phished?
  3. Another US Voters Data Leak Via Tea Party PAC Misconfigured S3 Bucket
  4. Travel data for about 30,000 individuals was exposed in a Pentagon #DataBreach and experts expect that the information could be
  5. A combination of #SecurityFlaws and inadequate back-end development of the @Google Firebase database led to #DataLeaks and #SecurityVulnerabilities including HospitalGown.
  6. Hackers Breach HealthCare.gov System and Steals Sensitive Personal Data of 75,000 Customers

DENIAL-OF-SERVICE

Nil

MALVERTISING

Nil

PHISHING

  1. Hackers launched @netflix #phishing attacks by obtaining TLS certificates. Learn how hackers mimic popular websites to spoof users and steal

WEB DEFACEMENT

Nil

BOTNET

Nil

RANSOMWARE

  1. Kraken Cryptor Ransomware Connecting to BleepingComputer During Encryption
  2. Banking trojans, not #ransomware, are the biggest threat to the enterprise now.

CRYPTOMINING & CRYPTOCURRENCIES

  1. Kraken Cryptor Ransomware Connecting to BleepingComputer During Encryption

MALWARE

  1. GreyEnergy Malware Targets Energy and Transport Providers
  2. Then a vendor calls. A quality control system is running a hidden process. That shouldn’t be happening. The vendor rep

EXPLOIT

Nil

VULNERABILITY

  1. Multiple Vulnerabilities In Telepresence Robots Patched
  2. Tumblr Patched Privacy Bug That Could Expose Sensitive Account Details
  3. WizCase Report: Vulnerabilities found in WD My Book, NetGear Stora, SeaGate Home, Medion LifeCloud NAS
  4. 2 Million Network Storage Devices From WD, SeaGate, NetGear Affected by Unpatched Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

Region brief for 2018-10-21

ASIA

  1. DarkPulsar and other NSA hacking tools used in hacking operations in the wild
  2. Security Affairs newsletter Round 185 – News of the week

OCEANIA

Nil

NORTH AMERICA

  1. HealthCare.gov Suffered Data Breach As Hackers Stole 75,000 Records
  2. Another US Voters Data Leak Via Tea Party PAC Misconfigured S3 Bucket
  3. Security Affairs newsletter Round 185 – News of the week
  4. WizCase Report: Vulnerabilities found in WD My Book, NetGear Stora, SeaGate Home, Medion LifeCloud NAS

SOUTH AMERICA

  1. Security Affairs newsletter Round 185 – News of the week

EUROPE

  1. DarkPulsar and other NSA hacking tools used in hacking operations in the wild
  2. GreyEnergy Malware Targets Energy and Transport Providers
  3. Security Affairs newsletter Round 185 – News of the week

AFRICA

Nil

Sector brief for 2018-10-21

HEALTHCARE

  1. HealthCare.gov Suffered Data Breach As Hackers Stole 75,000 Records
  2. Hackers Breach HealthCare.gov System and Steals Sensitive Personal Data of 75,000 Customers

TRANSPORT

  1. DarkPulsar and other NSA hacking tools used in hacking operations in the wild
  2. GreyEnergy Malware Targets Energy and Transport Providers

BANKING & FINANCE

  1. Another US Voters Data Leak Via Tea Party PAC Misconfigured S3 Bucket
  2. Banking trojans, not #ransomware, are the biggest threat to the enterprise now.

INFORMATION & TELECOMMUNICATION

  1. Tumblr Patched Privacy Bug That Could Expose Sensitive Account Details
  2. WizCase Report: Vulnerabilities found in WD My Book, NetGear Stora, SeaGate Home, Medion LifeCloud NAS

FOOD

Nil

WATER

Nil

ENERGY

  1. DarkPulsar and other NSA hacking tools used in hacking operations in the wild
  2. GreyEnergy Malware Targets Energy and Transport Providers

GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC SERVICE

  1. HealthCare.gov Suffered Data Breach As Hackers Stole 75,000 Records
  2. Another US Voters Data Leak Via Tea Party PAC Misconfigured S3 Bucket

Daily brief for 2018-10-21

ASIA

  1. DarkPulsar and other NSA hacking tools used in hacking operations in the wild
  2. Security Affairs newsletter Round 185 – News of the week

WORLD

  1. HealthCare.gov Suffered Data Breach As Hackers Stole 75,000 Records
  2. DarkPulsar and other NSA hacking tools used in hacking operations in the wild
  3. Another US Voters Data Leak Via Tea Party PAC Misconfigured S3 Bucket
  4. GreyEnergy Malware Targets Energy and Transport Providers
  5. Security Affairs newsletter Round 185 – News of the week
  6. WizCase Report: Vulnerabilities found in WD My Book, NetGear Stora, SeaGate Home, Medion LifeCloud NAS

ATTACKS

  1. HealthCare.gov Suffered Data Breach As Hackers Stole 75,000 Records
  2. Week in review: Pentagon data breach, cybersecurity workforce gap, who gets spear phished?
  3. Another US Voters Data Leak Via Tea Party PAC Misconfigured S3 Bucket
  4. Travel data for about 30,000 individuals was exposed in a Pentagon #DataBreach and experts expect that the information could be
  5. Hackers launched @netflix #phishing attacks by obtaining TLS certificates. Learn how hackers mimic popular websites to spoof users and steal
  6. A combination of #SecurityFlaws and inadequate back-end development of the @Google Firebase database led to #DataLeaks and #SecurityVulnerabilities including HospitalGown.
  7. Hackers Breach HealthCare.gov System and Steals Sensitive Personal Data of 75,000 Customers

THREATS

  1. Multiple Vulnerabilities In Telepresence Robots Patched
  2. Tumblr Patched Privacy Bug That Could Expose Sensitive Account Details
  3. GreyEnergy Malware Targets Energy and Transport Providers
  4. Kraken Cryptor Ransomware Connecting to BleepingComputer During Encryption
  5. Banking trojans, not #ransomware, are the biggest threat to the enterprise now.
  6. Then a vendor calls. A quality control system is running a hidden process. That shouldn’t be happening. The vendor rep
  7. WizCase Report: Vulnerabilities found in WD My Book, NetGear Stora, SeaGate Home, Medion LifeCloud NAS
  8. 2 Million Network Storage Devices From WD, SeaGate, NetGear Affected by Unpatched Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

CRIME

  1. Security Affairs newsletter Round 185 – News of the week

POLITICS

  1. Security Affairs newsletter Round 185 – News of the week