Posts for category: Global Weekly Executive Summaries

SA Weather Service Hacked

Executive Summary The South African Weather Service (SAWS) suffered a significant cyber attack which disrupted operations. The services affected were critical services which included aviation and ...

U.S. Treasury Hack

Executive Summary In December 2024, there was a significant cybersecurity breach against the U.S. Department of Treasury. The state-sponsored actor is believed to be from China. The hackers gained ...

China Hacks Telecom Companies

Executive Summary On December 3, 2024, NBC News, a mainstream American broadcast television network, reported that state-sponsored Chinese hackers had attacked major American telecom companies [1]. ...

Decade-Old Root Access Vulnerability Found in Ubuntu

Executive Summary On Wednesday, November 19, 2024, the Qualys Threat Research Unit identified and reported five easily exploitable full root access vulnerabilities in Ubuntu servers’ ...

North Korean APT Caught Experimenting With macOS Malware

Executive Summary On Tuesday, November 12, 2024, Jamf Threat Labs, a company specializing in securing Apple devices, published a report claiming the discovery of macOS-targeted malware which had ...

Chinese Trojan Attacks Bank Customers on Android

Executive Summary On Thursday, November 7, 2024, SecurityWeek reported that the Cleafy Threat Intelligence team had found a new trojan malware nicknamed ToxicPanda [2]. The malware, originally ...

Russia Attacks Ukraine With RAT

Executive Summary On October 17, 2024, the Cisco Talos Intelligence Group reported that a Russian APT group named RomCom (UAT-5647) had been infiltrating and attacking Ukrainian and Polish entities ...

North Korea: Stealing Crypto Through Zero-Day

Executive Summary On Wednesday, October 23, 2024, the Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky unveiled an update on a North Korean APT group nicknamed ‘Lazarus’ that has been accused of using a ...

AI in APT Attacks

Executive Summary On Friday, October 11, 2024, the creators of ChatGPT, OpenAI, announced in their October threat report that they had disrupted more than 20 cyber and covert influence operations ...

An APT Spies on Russia

Executive Summary   On Monday, October 7, 2024, the Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky unveiled an update on the Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group nicknamed ‘Awaken Likho’ ...