Weekly Intelligence Bulletin – Week 48

29. November 19

QuoScient’s Weekly Intelligence Bulletin for the week of 21 November – 28 November 2019 is now available! Please contact our sales team at sales@quoscient.io to subscribe today.

Find a summary below.

 

CYBER

Cyber Incident Industry Impacted: Information Technology

On 26 November, QuoINT detected a new Winnti malware targeting a multimedia software and artificial intelligence (AI) facial recognition technology company in Taiwan.

 

Cyber Threat Actor Industry Impacted: Financials

QuoINT has detected two new Cobalt campaigns, including one delivering a new version of the Cobalt Group backdoor Cobint, targeting European financial institutions.

 

GEOPOLITICS

Ursula von der Leyen was confirmed as the EU Commission President on 27 November. In her speech presenting the College of Commissioners and their program, digitisation was among the key issues, alongside climate change, migration, and more.

 

OUTLOOK

02 December – UN Climate Conference COP25 in Madrid, Spain

02 December – Black Hat Europe Conference in London, UK

03 December – QuoINT presenting “Golden Chickens: Uncovering a Malware-as-a-Service Provider” at Botconf 2019 in Bordeaux, France

03 December – Summit of NATO Heads of State and Government in London, UK

04 December – QuoScient participating at the Cybersecurity Supervision Workshop at the International Monetary Fund (IMF)