Cybercrime, new Android ransomware: AndroidOS/MalLocker.B
Microsoft cybersecurity experts: The malware doesn’t encrypt the files. It blocks access to device by displaying a screen with the ransom note that appears over every other window.
Syria, the SAA launches a ground invasion in Marnaz between Aleppo-Idlib
Violent clashes with Hayat Tahrir al-Shamn (HTS) in several areas on the border between the provinces. Meanwhile, SDF-Inherent Resolve capture 19 Isis members in one go.
Cyber Espionage, MontysThree targets industries with a new toolset
Kaspersky cybersecurity experts: To evade detection, it host its communications with the C2 on public cloud services and hides the main malware with steganography.
Cybercrime, WHS Rat is spread with SlimPDF reader
The lure is a fake CV attached in a mail. If the victim opens it, it asks to install the reader. Meanwhile Meanwhile, a JS activates the malware infection chain.
Syria, not even Russia manages to defeat Isis in the Badia desert
New IS ambushes against the SAA between Homs-Raqqa. It confirms that the jihadists are moving from west of Deir Ezzor. TACs on the ground needed to eliminate them.
Cybercrime, Emotet is one of the most prevalent ongoing cyber threats
CISA-MS-ISAC cyber security experts: Roughly 16,000 alerts related to the malware and significant increase in state-local governments targeted by the malware with phishing.
Syria, Russia intervenes against Isis west of Deir Ezzor
Damascus had asked Moscow for help to protect the SAA and counter the growing IS ambushes, which are also spreading to Homs.
Cybercrime, MassLogger hits with campaigns on compressed files
New emails carry malware in two different ways. One through one executable within a .7z file and the other with a CHM in an attachment .R15 or .R04.
Cybersecurity, IMO suffered a sophisticated cyber-attack
It’s not clear if the source are cybercrime or cyberwarfare actors, but systems have been restored. Maritime sector and companies are in the crosshairs.
Syria, the SDF “free” local Isis prisoners from the Al-Hol camp
It is not known whether the approximately 28,000 detainees, along with families, will be released or transferred elsewhere. 37,000 IS foreign fighters, less "dangerous”, remain.