Cybercrime, North Korea is targeting banks in over 30 countries
US cyber security experts: BeagleBoyz gang is targeting organizations with Op. “FASTCash 2.0”, in an ongoing cyber-enabled bank robbery scheme, attempting to steal $2 Billions.
Cyber Espionage, China’s hackers exploit the TAIDOOR malware
The US CISA, FBI, DoD cyber security experts: The aim is to maintain a presence on victim networks and to further network exploitation. The RAT is installed as a DLL and includes 2 files.
Cyber Warfare, US expose new North Korea’s malware
The cyber security experts: They are COPPERHEDGE, TAINTEDSCRIBE, and PEBBLEDASH: a RAT and two trojans. Last February six other HIDDEN COBRA’s malicious codes were discovered.
Ransomware, cybercrime earned $144.35 million in six years
FBI supervisory special agent DeCapua: The Top Ten of malware variants sees Ryuk as the winner with $61.26 million, followed by Crysis/Dharma ($24.48 million) and Bitpaymer ($8.04 million).
Christmas: Smart TV are a nice gift, but beware of cybercrime
FBI shared some advices to increase cyber security of these IoT devices. If users don’t manage correctly all the Internet-linked features, risks of being compromised can be high.
Cyber Warfare: North Korea hit targets with a trojan variant, HOPLIGHT
US CISA, FBI and DoD cyber security experts: The HIDDEN COBRA malware collects system information about the victim machine including OS Version, Volume Information and System Time.
Avast cooperates with France and FBI to stop Retadup cryptomining worm
The cyber security experts: The malware controlled over 850,000 computers, mainly in Latin America, to create Monero; but the cybercrime C&C servers were in Paris Region and USA.
US, NSA will establish the Cyber Security Directorate
The new Division will have it’s IOC on 1 October 2019 and will be lead by Anne Neuberger, already chief of Russia Small Group. The mission: increase the cyber defense posture against foreign threats.
Cybercrime, GandCrab has been beaten maybe definitely
Cyber security experts share free a new decryption tool for the latest version of the ransomware family on NoMoreRansom, the V5.2. The malware should also close at the end of the month.
North Korea, new Lazarus campaign with Electricfish malware
The cyber security experts: The APT’s malicious code implements a custom protocol that allows traffic to be funneled between a source and a destination IP address.