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23 January 2017 Daily Cyber Situation Awareness

HEADLINES

**Lloyds Bank outage**: DDoS is prime suspect
China to crack down on censor-busting services
**Carbanak Group** Used Numerous Tools in Recent Attacks
It’s 2017 and 200,000 services still have unpatched **Heartbleeds**

TRENDS

Cyber Threat Intelligence Shows Majority of Cybercrime is NOT Sophisticated

Attacks

**Hadoop**, **CouchDB** Next Targets in Wave of Database Attacks
(UK) **BBC** apologise after Twitter account hacked and reports Trump has been shot
**Lloyds Bank outage**: DDoS is prime suspect
(US) Cyberattack causes outages at **Sundance Film Festival**
(US / New Jersey) Hacker posts ‘horrific’ comments on **fake Facebook page of A.C.’s Playground**
(US / New York) OurMine crew hacked the **New York Times Twitter video account**

MALWARE

**BankBot**, an Android malware based on a source code leaked online
**Satan RaaS** Promises Large Gains With Zero Coding Needed
**Satan** enters roll-your-own ransomware game
**(Star Wars Botnet**) Massive Twitter Botnet Dormant Since 2013

TACTICS TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES

**Carbanak Group** Used Numerous Tools in Recent Attacks

ATTACKERS

The Changing Face of **Carbanak**(**Paras Jha**) Operator of DDoS protection service named as Mirai author
(**Stanislav Lisov**) Suspected Russian Hacker Wanted by U.S. Jailed in Spain
(**Media Sonar**) Facebook Banned This Canadian Surveillance Company From Accessing Its Data
Hackers Hack Hacking Forum As Soon As It’s Launched

CYBERWAR

The emergence of the ‘**cyber cold war**’

ATTACKERS

(**Anna-Senpai** / **Paras Jha**) FBI questions Rutgers student about massive cyber attack
FBI questions Rutgers student about massive cyber attack
(**Lisov SV**) The author of the NeverQuest banking Trojan arrested in Spain Busting up cybergangs

VULNERABILITIES

(ICS) General Electric plays down industrial control plant vulnerabilities
It’s 2017 and 200,000 services still have unpatched **Heartbleeds**
J&J warns diabetic patients: **Insulin pump** vulnerable to hacking

GENERAL

Cyber Threat Intelligence Shows Majority of Cybercrime is NOT Sophisticated
**India** turns to AI as cyber warfare threats grow
**Western Union admits it facilitated scammers**, forfeits $586 million
Western Union agreed to pay $586 Million to settle fraud charges
**Hackers Downloaded US Government Climate Data** and Stored it on European Servers as Trump Was Being Inaugurated
**Yahoo Under SEC Investigation** for Taking too Long to Reveal Data Breaches
Coalition of Cryptographers, Researchers Urge Guardian to **Retract WhatsApp Story**
St Jude case highlights ongoing divide over â**responsible bugs disclosure**â
**Expert Hacks Internal DoD Network** via Army Website
**Symantec** Revokes Wrongly Issued Certificates
Corporate Legal Counsels Fret Over Cybersecurity

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