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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Cybersecurity – Week 38
- The U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctioned five executives and an entity tied to the Intellexa Consortium, known for developing the controversial Predator spyware.
- Europol and law enforcement from nine countries seized a communication platform called “Ghost” used by organized crime groups for money laundering and drug trafficking.
- Chinese national, Song Wu, has been indicted by the FBI for a years-long spear phishing campaign targeting NASA, U.S. military agencies, and research universities.
- GitHub is again being abused to distribute the info-stealing malware Lumma Stealer that is targeting open source project repositories and those subscribed to them.
- A new report by cybersecurity researchers details a sophisticated botnet called “Raptor Train” that has been operating since May 2020.
- The botnet has infected over 200,000 endpoints worldwide, including small office/home office (SOHO) routers, IoT devices, IP cameras, and network-attached storage (NAS) servers.
- Raptor Train has yet to launch any DDoS attacks, it has been weaponized to execute reconnaissance and exploitation efforts against the military, government, defense industrial base (DIB), telecommunications, and IT sectors.
- The FBI has successfully dismantled the botnet following a court-authorized operation.
- However, the agency warns that the Chinese government will continue to target organizations in critical sectors in intelligence-gathering campaigns.
- Users are advised to be cautious, avoid clicking suspicious links, and continue reporting these issues to GitHub for investigation.
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