Oil and Gas Brief 02 01 2019

Activity Summary - Week Ending 1 February 2019:

  • avitgap4@mail.com is a spoofed email from 1&1 Internet AG and may be a money transfer lure
  • Wapack Labs proprietary sources identified 2,262,678 new IP addresses in various botnets
  • Wapack Labs’s addition of a newly discovered virut botnet to the botnet tracker collection showed a marked increase in botnet activity
  • Anatova Ransomware / Magecart Attacks
  • Quasi Networks LTD. Amsterdam, Netherlands was the weekly top C2 IP seen from keylogger collection
  • European Commission encouraging using Euros v. US dollars for crude oil and natural gas trading
  • Novatek reporting US is RU’s main competitor in LNG, increasing the cyber threat level
  • Venezuela GEOPOL and oil situation.
  • Japan, South Korea, India, and China are all buying Iranian crude once again

Full report can be found here: IR-19-032-001_OIL & GAS.pdf