Cyware Weekly Threat Intelligence, September 28 - October 02, 2020

Weekly Threat Briefing • October 2, 2020
Weekly Threat Briefing • October 2, 2020
The Good
With another week coming to an end, let’s take a quick glance at all the good developments that happened this week. America’s top law enforcement agencies plan to work with intelligence agencies to fight against foreign hackers. On the other hand, the Western Australian government has decided to come up with a new cybersecurity center that will provide further support to existing cybersecurity efforts across government.
The Bad
It’s raining ransomware and this week’s targeted victim companies include the names of United Health Services (UHS), Arthur J.Gallagher & Co. and CMA CGM. In other news, the FBI is investigating an ongoing BEC campaign in which $15 million have been stolen from at least 150 victims.
New Threats
In new threats, researchers discovered new variants of the InterPlanetary Storm botnet and Android/SpyC23.A. While the new version of InterPlanetary Storm botnet uses brute-force attacks to get into systems, the new variant of Android/SpyC23.A spyware is distributed via a fake app store in the form of AndroidUpdate, Threema and Telegram apps.