North Korea Continues Crypto Theft Campaign
Recorded Future’s threat intelligence unit, Insikt Group, estimates North Korea’s stolen cryptocurrency tally to be worth $3B since launching its crypto theft campaign in 2017.
With funding state-backed missile projects as the motive, North Korea’s threat actors focused on crypto theft are said to equip masses of well-trained computer scientists. High-tech money laundering technology turns stolen crypto into fiat currency successfully.
Apple Patches Zero-Days iOS Vulnerabilities
Apple announced that they successfully patched two vulnerabilities found on a wide variety of Apple devices.
The two flaws found by Google’s Threat Analysis Group, labeled as CVE-2023-42916 and CVE-2023-42917, processed web content to potentially disclose sensitive information and a memory corruption flaw in WebKit.
Iranian Hackers Found to Target Multiple US Organizations
A joint advisory by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency (CISA) announced the Iranian-based threat actor group “Cyber Av3ngers” compromised over 200 internet-connected devices in the US.
Suspected to be anti-Israeli by motive, the “Cyber Av3ngers” group was behind the Pennsylvania Water Authority hacks, disrupting an industrial control device that was made in Israel.
