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Coronavirus: Europol arrests man behind €6M face masks and hand sanitisers scam

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million by a European pharmaceutical company, a European State reported. “A European Member State reported to Europol that one of their pharmaceutical companies had been defrauded of €6.64 Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. The man has stolen €6.64 million by this individual.

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NailaoLocker ransomware targets EU healthcare-related entities

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ShadowPad is a modular backdoor considered a hallmark of China-linked APT groupssince at least 2015. “Researchers from Mandiant for instance observed APT41 targeting US pharmaceutical entities in early 2020, meanwhile APT18 or APT10 have been historically tied to even older breaches affecting this vertical.”

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FBI warns US companies on the use of Chinese Tax Software

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“Compromise of the pharmaceutical supply chain provides malicious actors opportunities for theft of US intellectual property, while public disclosure can cause cascading effects including loss of public trust in both chemical and healthcare institutions.” ” reads the alert. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Chinese hackers stole info from Spanish centers working on Covid19 vaccine

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While pharmaceutical companies worldwide are working on the research of a vaccine for the ongoing COVID19 pandemic, threat actors are conducting cyber espionage campaigns in the attempt of stealing information on the work. . ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Europol seized 30,506 Internet domain names for IP Infringement

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“These included counterfeit pharmaceuticals and pirated movies , illegal television streaming, music, software, electronics, and other bogus products.” “ ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. .” reads the press release published by the Europol. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Chronicle experts spotted a Linux variant of the Winnti backdoor

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Chronicle researchers while investigating the cyber attack that hit the Bayer pharmaceutical company in April. Searching for samples of Winnti malware on its VirusTotal platform, the experts discovered a Linux variant of Winnti, dating back to 2015. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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China-linked Winnti APT targets South Korean Gaming firm

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The APT group targeted organizations in various industries, including the aviation, gaming, pharmaceuticals, technology, telecoms, and software development industries. The piece of malware employed in the attack was developed in 2015, it was the same used in the attack against Gravity that had the target’s name embedded in the code.