Threat Landscape Briefing – August 2017

Author(s): TJ Minichillo, Jessica Ireland, Celine Gravelines, Ian Alexander, Azzam Jivraj

In this month’s briefing we explore:

Cybersecurity

  • Self-service food kiosk vendor Avanti was hacked – how to keep your payment systems safe. (2:18)

Threat Actor Campaigns

  • FIN10 cyber extortion campaign – how you can protect your frontline. (7:14)
  • Who is the threat “BestBuy” that is responsible for GovRAT and using the Mirai IoT botnet and what this UK threat actor means to you. (11:04)

Regulatory, Legal, and Compliance

  • US/Russian cybersecurity relationship – what does this have to do with Kaspersky? (14:20)

Exploitation and Tactics

  • Petya/NOPetya: An update on this global attack. (17:33)

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