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| Source |  AlienVault Blog |
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| Identifiant | 854987 |
| Date de publication | 2018-10-19 13:00:00 (vue: 2018-10-19 16:01:42) |
| Titre | Things I Hearted this Week, 19th October 2018 |
| Texte |
It’s been another eventful week in the world of cyber security. So let’s just jump right into it.
NCSC has Been Busy
NCSC collaborated with Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK, and the USA to give us a report that highlights which publicly-available tools criminals are using to aid their cyber crimes.
Joint report on publicly available hacking tools | NCSC
The agency also commented on how it keeps criminals at bay by stopping on average 10 attacks on the government per week.
NCSC also published its Annual Review 2018 - the story of the second year of operations at the National Cyber Security Centre.
Targeting Crypto Currencies
It is estimated that cryptocurrency exchanges suffered a total loss of $882 million due to targeted attacks in 2017 and in the first three quarters of 2018. According to Group-IB experts, at least 14 crypto exchanges were hacked. Five attacks have been linked to North Korean hackers from Lazarus state-sponsored group, including the infamous attack on Japanese crypto exchange Coincheck, when $534 million in crypto was stolen.
Targeted attacks on crypto exchanges resulted in a loss of $882 million | HelpNet Security
Twitter Publishes Data on Iranian and Russian Troll Farms
In an attempt to try and be more proactive in dealing with misinformation campaigns, Twitter has published its Elections Integrity dataset which includes attempted manipulation, including malicious automated accounts and spam. In other words it’s attempting to out - Iranian and Russian troll farms.
Twitter’s focus is on a healthy public conversation | Twitter
In light of this, it’s worth also revisiting this article by Mustafa Al-Bassam in which he researched UK intelligence doing the same thing targeting civilians in Iran.
British Spies Used a URL Shortener to Honeypot Arab Spring Dissidents | Motherboard
Equifax Engineer Sentenced
An Equifax engineer gets eight months for earning $75,000 from insider trading. He figured out he was building a web portal for a breach involving Equifax, which turned out to be the 2017 breach, and so decided to ride the stock drop.
Equifax engineer who designed breach portal gets 8 months of house arrest for insider trading | ZDNet
Mind the Skills Gap
(ISC)2 has released its 2018 global cyber security workforce study and it looks like the cyber security skills gap has widened to 3 million.
It’s worth bearing in mind that estimating the skills gap isn’t an eas |
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