Cyware Weekly Cyber Threat Intelligence September 10-14, 2018

Weekly Threat Briefing • September 14, 2018
Weekly Threat Briefing • September 14, 2018
Friday’s here at last! That means it’s time to catch up on the biggest cybersecurity stories from the week gone by. But first, Let's tip our hats to the experts, law enforcement and firms making strides towards improving the security of people, devices and infrastructure against increasingly dubious threats. The hacker behind the JPMorgan cyberattack was nabbed by US feds. British cops arrested a teen DDoS-for-hire group leader. Meanwhile, researchers developed a way to store cryptocurrency passwords in DNA.
Over the past week, several security breaches, data leaks and cyber attacks came to light. Data firm Veeam exposed over 200GB of customer records. FreshMenu failed to disclose a 2016 breach while Edinburgh University suffered a cyberattack.
Multiple threat actors have been coming out of the woodwork. Iran-linked Domestic Kitten has been spying on ISIS supporters for years. Chinese-speaking LuckyMouse is using malicious NDISProxy drivers to distribute Trojans. New Mirai and Gafgyt botnet variants are targeting multiple exploits. PyLocky ransomware has been focusing on Europe while a new Kronos variant is exploiting a Microsoft Office flaw.