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New cyber threat from North Korea
Microsoft has identified a new North Korean threat actor, Moonstone Sleet. Also known as Storm-1789, Moonstone Sleet has set up fake companies and job opportunities to engage with potential targets and has even created a fully functioning computer game designed to trap the unwary. The potentially hostile nation-state of North Korea has long been suspected of resorting to cybercrime, targeting the West to fund its military build-up and commit ongoing cyber espionage against countries such as the US and the UK. But Moonstone Sleet is taking cyber-attacks on the West to new levels of sophistication, posing a threat to all organizations. Microsoft says Moonstone Sleet “uses both a combination of many tried-and-true techniques used by other North Korean threat actors and unique attack methodologies to target companies for its financial and cyberespionage objectives.”
Malware Found to Evade Ukranian Detection for 9 Years – April 18th
Cisco Talos revealed its findings, showing that select Ukranian government agencies have been infected with the 'OfflRouter' malware since 2015. Cisco Talos researcher, Vanja Svajcer said. "The virus is still active in Ukraine and is causing potentially confidential documents to be uploaded to publicly accessible document repositories."
Fake Chrome Update Spreads Banking Malware – March 19th
According to a Broadcom report, a banking trojan named "Cerberus" pretending to be a Google Chrome update has successfully distributed to numerous systems. Affecting only Android users, the Cerberus malware allows attackers to completely control affected systems through its complex remote access capabilities.
JP Morgan Chase Combats 45 Billion Cyber Attacks Daily – January 18th
On Wednesday, January 17th, JPMorgan Chase's asset and wealth management division head, Mary Callahan Erdoes, said during the World Economic Forum in Davos that the firm faces a staggering 45 billion breach attempts daily. Mary explained on a panel session that they have more security engineers than Google and Amazon, out of necessity, as threat actors increasingly get "smarter, savvier, quicker, more devious and mischievous."
$80M in Crypto Stolen from Orbit Chain Cyberattack – January 3rd
Orbit Chain revealed to its users that as a result of a cyber attack, $84.5M worth of Ethereum and DAI (cryptocurrencies) were illicitly transferred to seven wallet addresses on the 1st of January. Orbit Chain is now coordinating with the Korean National Police Agency and the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) to find the threat actors behind the cyber attacks, and to further protect its customers' crypto wallets.