Ireland releases the National Cyber Security Strategy 2019-2024
The country, home to over 30% of all EU data, wants to increase resilience against cybercrime and the other threats. Furthermore, it plans to develop the internal sector.
Terrorism, the US hit Isis’ financial and logistic network
Five companies and four people included in the black list, as they provided support to the Islamic State. From Syria to Turkey, passing through Afghanistan and Europe. It is a blow to Daesh.
Syria, US soldiers move from Raqqa to Hasaka
The goal is to transfer them to the west of Iraq to continue the fight against Isis. However, this will depend on Turkey behaviour and on the fact that Europe resumes its foreign Daesh fighters.
Here it comes Attor, a new cyber espionage platform
ESET cyber security experts: It’s GSM plugin uses AT command protocol and has Tor for network communications. It targets Russia and diplomatic missions-governments in Eastern Europe.
Cybercrime: here it comes Divergent a new fileless malware
Cisco Talos cyber security experts: It uses the system registry to bypass anti-virus scanning, a registry key to maintain persistence and PowerShell to install.
Ke3chang targets diplomatic missions in Europe-Latin America with Okrum
ESET cyber security experts: The malware is a dynamic-link library that is installed and loaded by two earlier-stage components, and it’s periodically implemented to avoid detection.
Ukraine again under a cyber attack, probably by Gamaredon
Cybaze-Yoroi ZLAB cyber security experts: The campaign shows the Matryoshka structure to chain SFX archives, typical of APT implant, and the use of a legit third party RAT as payload.
Terrorism, Isis and Al Qaeda’s evolutions towards a two-headed monster
Last chapter of the story of the two groups, which share roots and purpose of recreating the Caliphate. Bin Laden’s network (mastermind) and Daesh (armed wing) point to Khorasan-Kashmir.
Cybercrime is targeting Italy with a new version of JasperLoader
Cisco Talos cyber security experts: It features several changes and improvements to control where the malware can spread and avoid analysis by sandboxes and antivirus.
Terrorism, the developments of Isis and Al Qaeda: from the Universal Caliphate to the hybrid war
Chapter 7 of a study on the history of the two groups, to understand why they share same roots and purposes, aimed at recreating the Caliphate. Shiites and Sunnis, Iran and Daesh’s operational strategy.