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15 February 2017 Daily Cyber Situation Awareness

HEADLINES

  • Here’s Why Microsoft President Wants a Digital Geneva Convention
  • Yahoo Is Sued for Gross Negligence Over Huge Hacking

TRENDS

  • UK) Gov’t Official: 65% Of Businesses Got Hit By Cyber Attacks Last Year
  • Most US firms would pay to avoid data breach shame going public
  • Major DDoS attacks see huge increase, says Akamai
  • Ransomware Attacks Shift Towards Businesses

Attacks

  • (Apple / Mac / Russia / APT28) Russian cyberspies blamed for U.S. election hacks are now targeting Macs
  • (Hong Kong) Hong Kong police struggle to stop **brokerage hacking spree**
  • **Operation Kingphish**: Cyber Attacks against human rights activists in **Qatar and Nepal**
  • Amnesty Warns of Phishing Attacks on **Qatar Activists**
  • (US / California) Computer hackers steal **San Antonio Symphony employee data**

MALWARE

  • New **Cerber** Variant Spares Files of Security Programs from Encryption
  • Android **Banking Trojan Marcher** Targets Dozens of Apps, Bypasses Antivirus
  • Detecting **Ticketbleed** (CVE-2016-9244)
  • Meet **LogicLocker**: Boffin-built SCADA ransomware

CYBER WAR

  • Russian Cyber Operations: 2017 and Beyond
  • Nation States Distancing Themselves from APTs

ATTACKERS

  • Russian cyberspies blamed for U.S. election hacks are now targeting Macs
  • Russian hacking group Fancy Bear broadens its cyber-espionage campaign with new malware for Macs
  • BitDefender found the first MAC OS version of the X-Agent used by the APT28

PATCHES

  • Adobe just fixed thirteen code execution flaws in **Flash Player**
  • Adobe Patches 13 Code Execution Vulnerabilities in **Flash**
  • **Adobe Security Bulletins** and Advisories
  • **Cisco** Releases Security Updates
  • **Mozilla** Releases Security Update
  • **SAP** Patches 22 Vulnerabilities With February 2017 Security Updates

VULNERABILITIES

  • Pwned Android Conference phone exposeees risk of spies in boardroom
    Researchers could listen in on meetings and plant backdoors
  • **Apple**: Don’t panic, but your Mac can be pwned via GarageBand .bands
  • **Remote unauthenticated OS re-install** is a feature, not a bug, says **Cisco**
  • (**Shodan** Report) US Cities Exposed in Shodan

GENERAL

  • DHS Chairman Paints Bleak US Cybersecurity Picture
  • Google claims ‘massive’ Stagefright Android bug had ‘sod all effect’
    And hackers didn’t have much luck either with other flaws in the mobe OS
  • Why Are Hackers Winning The Security Game?
  • IT decisions makers and executives don’t agree on cyber security responsibility
  • Yahoo Is Sued for Gross Negligence Over Huge Hacking

GEOPOL

  • We need a new Geneva Convention to protect all citizens from snoops’
  • Microsoft president calls for creation of ‘Digital Geneva Convention’

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About The CIDC
The Cyber Intelligence Defence Centre (CIDC) is a component of the Centre for Strategic Cyberspace and Security Science (CSCSS). The Cyber Intelligence Defence Center (CIDC) develops and shares intelligence on: malware, malware developers and cyber-criminals. We are an internationally oriented, intelligence analysis and sharing center.
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