El Diario del CISO El Diario del CISO (The CISO Journal) Edición 28 | Page 5

International InfoSec & Cybersecurity News
China inserts microchips into
motherboards used by Apple ... Facebook Scrambles to Provide Breach
Info to Regulators ...
www.scmagazine.com
A microchip planted by China on Supermicro motherboards
used by organizations, including the CIA, the U.S. military,
Amazon and Apple, left sensitive information vulnerable www.infosecurity-magazine.com
Facebook is racing to provide more information to
European regulators about a major security breach
affecting an estimated 50 million user accounts, with the
threat of major GDPR fines hanging over the firm
BEC-as-a-Service: Hacked accounts
available from $150 ... Torii Botnet - Not Another Mirai Variant
www.helpnetsecurity.com
For criminals looking to outsource their work, BEC-as-a-
Service is widely available for as little as $150 – with results
available in a week or less.
www.informationsecuritybuzz.com
Avast’s threat labs team have uncovered “the most
sophisticated botnet that they have ever seen”, and it is
targeting IoT devices
100,000-Plus Home Routers Hijacked in
Campaign to Steal ... APT38 is behind financially motivated
attacks carried out ...
www.darkreading.com
An unknown attacker has hijacked over 100,000 home routers
and changed their DNS settings in a major campaign to steal
login credentials from customers of several banks in Brazil. securityaffairs.co
Security experts from FireEye published a report on the
activity of financially motivated threat actors, tracked as
APT38, linked to the North Korean government
Betabot - An Example of Cheap Modern
Malware ... Securing connected medical devices: Will
categorizing them as ICS help?
www.securityweek.com
What appears to be a new campaign delivering the Betabot
malware has been detected by security researchers. www.csoonline.com
Now that they’re no longer protected by an “air gap,” let’s
consider what’s needed to protect connected medical
devices from security threats.
National Cyber Security Awareness Month:
What’s New for 2018? Apple, Amazon deny Bloomberg report
on Chinese hardware ...
securityintelligence.com
To kick off October, we take a look back at what happened in
cybersecurity in 2018 and a sneak peek at this year's National
Cyber Security Awareness Month. ciso.economictimes.indiatimes.com
Apple, Amazon deny Bloomberg report on Chinese
hardware attack Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc denied a
Bloomberg Businessweek report