Pierluigi Paganini November 12, 2023

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Cybercrime

Treasury Designates Virtual Currency Money Launderer for Russian Elites and Cybercriminals  

Who’s Behind the SWAT USA Reshipping Service?   

Virtual Kidnapping: AI Tools Are Enabling IRL Extortion Scams 

How a ‘Refund Fraud’ Gang Stole $700,000 From Amazon

Info from 5.6 million patient visits among data stolen in ransomware attack on Ontario hospitals

Cyber-attacks: the apex of crime-as-a-service

Ransomware Actors Continue to Gain Access through Third Parties and Legitimate System Tools    

Behind ICBC Hack Is a Gang for Hire That Holds Systems Hostage  

Ransomware attack on ICBC disrupts trades in US Treasury market  

Serbian Citizen Pleads Guilty to Running Monopoly Drug Market on the Darknet  

IGP: Police arrest eight people in international syndicate which developed phishing templates to dupe victims [UPDATED]   

Malware

Unveiling Socks5Systemz: The Rise of a New Proxy Service via PrivateLoader and Amadey   

GCR – Google Calendar RAT   

BlueNoroff strikes again with new macOS malware    

France, UK Seek Greater Regulation of Commercial Spyware  

Hive Ransomware’s Offspring: Hunters International Takes the Stage  

Hacking

WormGPT: An AI Tool for Hackers  

Rapid7-Observed Exploitation of Atlassian Confluence CVE-2023-22518  

OST2, Zephyr RTOS, and a bunch of CVEs 

Sberbank faced the most powerful DDoS attack about two weeks ago  

SysAid On-Prem Software CVE-2023-47246 Vulnerability

Intelligence and Information Warfare

Agonizing Serpens (Aka Agrius) Targeting the Israeli Higher Education and Tech Sectors  

Sandworm Disrupts Power in Ukraine Using a Novel Attack Against Operational Technology

Modern Asian APT groups’ tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs)        

Cybersecurity

State of AI Safety in China

Google eighth Threat Horizons report is released

MARINA BAY SANDS SHOPPING MEMBERSHIP PROGRAMME DATA SECURITY INCIDENT

AI Cameras Took Over One Small American Town. Now They’re Everywhere

Google Cloud Cybersecurity Forecast 2024: A look at the cyber landscape in the year ahead    

Scarlett Johansson is going after an AI app that used her likeness without permission  

Court rules automakers can record and intercept owner text messages  

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Pierluigi Paganini

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