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• U.S. Indicts North Korean Hackers in Theft of $200 Million

"The U.S. Justice Department today unsealed indictments against three men accused of working with the North Korean regime to carry out some of the most damaging cybercrime attacks over the past decade, including the 2014 hack of Sony Pictures, the global WannaCry ransomware contagion of 2017, and the theft of roughly $200 million and attempted theft of more than $1.2 billion from banks and other victims worldwide."

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• First Malware Running Natively on M1 Chip Discovered

"Malware specifically tailored to run on Apple's M1 chip has been discovered, indicating that malware authors have begun adapting malicious software for Apple's new generation of Macs with Apple silicon."

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• Microsoft: Web Shells Attacks Spreading Like Wildfire

"According to Microsoft, web shells are among critical tools used by hackers as it records around 140,000 web shells a month between August 2020 and January 2021."

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• French and Ukrainian police arrested Egregor ransomware affiliates/partners in Ukraine

"An international operation conducted in Ukraine and France lead to the arrest of criminals believed to be affiliated with the Egregor RaaS"

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• U.S. Gov Warning on Water Supply Hack: Get Rid of Windows 7

"On the heels of last week’s lye-poisoning attack against a small water plant in Florida, the U.S. government’s cybersecurity agency is pleading with critical infrastructure defenders to rip-and-replace Windows 7 from their networks as a matter of urgency."

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• Newly Discovered Android Spyware Linked to State-Sponsored Indian Hackers

"Researchers at mobile security firm Lookout have published information on two recently discovered Android spyware families employed by an advanced persistent threat (APT) group named Confucius."

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• CYE Raises $100 Million to Help Minimize Attack Surfaces

"CYE, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based company on a mission to help companies identify “real-life” cyber risks by leveraging humans and machines, announced today that it has raised $100 million in growth funding through a financing round led by private equity firm EQT."

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• Android Devices Hunted by LodaRAT Windows Malware

"The LodaRAT – known for targeting Windows devices – has been discovered also targeting Android devices in a new espionage campaign."

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• Remote Hacker Caught Poisoning Florida City Water Supply

"Hacker Remotely Increased Sodium Hydroxide Levels in Florida City’s Water from 100 Parts Per Million to 11,100 Parts Per Million."

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• Attackers Leverage Locally-Loaded Chrome Extension for Data Exfiltration

"A recently investigated malicious attack was abusing a locally loaded Chrome extension to exfiltrate data and establish communication with the command and control (C&C) server."

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TLP¹ : Green