X-Industry

Activity Summary - Week Ending on 5 November 2021:

• Red Sky Alliance identified 18,221 connections from new IP’s checking in with our Sinkholes
• Analysts identified 5,681 new IP addresses participating in various Botnets
• Sality remains the top Malware Variant at 16191 Observation
• UpdateAgent Variant (Wizard Update)
• NPM Library Hijacked
• Black Friday and Cyber Monday
• Squid Games
• High/Low Risk Countries
• Nuclear Ransomware
• Lockean in France
• Tobacco Company being Hit

Link to full report: IR-21-309-00

The 2020 Holidays are here and many global and domestic economies are preparing for the subsequent shopping. This buying season is being executed in an environment that has changed entirely due to the Corona Pandemic lockdowns and fears of virus infection.  This creates – buying on-line.  It is estimated that this will be the largest on-line/eCommerce holiday season ever.  As tradition on Black Friday was once, consumers will not be standing outside of brick and mortar stores waiting for the lat