Cyware Weekly Threat Intelligence, September 07 - 11, 2020

Weekly Threat Briefing • September 11, 2020
Weekly Threat Briefing • September 11, 2020
The Good
With an uptick in state-sponsored attacks, several government agencies have issued cybersecurity guidelines to protect the critical assets of their countries. In a one of its kind joint advisory, cybersecurity agencies of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the U.K., and the U.S. have highlighted best practices for incident response and detection of malicious activities. In addition to this, the U.S. has issued a set of cybersecurity principles to protect space systems from cyberattacks.
The Bad
Meanwhile, ransomware attackers continued to wreak havoc with their non-stop attacks on organizations. The prime victims of such attacks, this week, were several hospitals and companies in Thailand. Apart from these, Equinix, K-Electric, and BancoEstado were among other victim organizations.
New Threats
Among the new threats detected this week, security researchers detected a new Bluetooth vulnerability called BLURtooth that can enable attackers to launch man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attacks. An attack method named Raccoon was also demonstrated by researchers this week, which could be used to exploit the TLS cryptographic protocol.