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Ransomware threat landscape Jan-Apr 2024: insights and challenges

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In terms of sectors, ransomware attacks have significantly affected industries such as consulting, logistics, and healthcare. The industrial and consulting sectors, including pharmaceutical, mechanical, and electronic industries, were among the most targeted in the country.

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China-linked hackers target government agencies by exploiting flaws in Citrix, Pulse, and F5 systems, and MS Exchange

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CISA published an advisory on China-linked groups targeting government agencies by exploiting flaws in Microsoft Exchange, Citrix, Pulse, and F5 systems. Chinese state-sponsored hackers have probed US government networks looking for vulnerable networking devices that could be compromised with exploits for recently disclosed vulnerabilities.

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Three APT groups have targeted at least seven COVID-19 vaccine makers

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“The targets include leading pharmaceutical companies and vaccine researchers in Canada, France, India, South Korea and the United States. Several organizations targeted by the APT groups that have contracts with or investments from government agencies for Covid-19 related work. ” reads the post published by Microsoft.

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Financially motivated Earth Lusca threat actors targets organizations worldwide

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A sophisticated threat actor, tracked as Earth Lusca, is targeting government and private organizations worldwide as for financial purposes. The APT group targeted organizations in various industries, including the aviation, gaming, pharmaceuticals, technology, telecoms, and software development industries.

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China-linked APT41 group exploits Citrix, Cisco, Zoho flaws

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The group hit entities in several industries, including the gaming, healthcare, high-tech, higher education, telecommunications, and travel services industries. The APT41 has been active since at least 2012, it was involved in both state-sponsored espionage campaigns and financially-motivated attacks since 2014.

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China-linked APT10 leverages ZeroLogon exploits in recent attacks

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The group has been observed while attempting to exploit the Windows Zerologon vulnerability in attacks aimed at Japanese organizations from multiple industry sectors in 17 regions around the globe. The latest campaign has been active since mid-October in 2019 and appears to be still ongoing.

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Alleged docs relating to Covid-19 vaccine leaked in darkweb

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While the pandemic is spreading on a global scale, threat actors continue to target government organizations and entities in the pharmaceutical industry. In early December, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced a cyber attack that has targeted it.