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Widespread Lokibot campaign targets Malta, Bank of Valletta (BOV)

On 13 February 2019, Bank of Valletta (BOV) employees discovered the hackers' intrusion and temporarily shut down all BOV IT systems. Wapack Labs analysis shows a continued heightened risk for BOV - primarily due exposed plain text employees’ passwords, signs of botnet connections from the BOV networks, incoming malicious emails, to inherent industry targeting, and a shared IT infrastructure with a French shipping company

ProxyLTE

ProxyLTE, a supplier of US based mobile and home router proxies, has been identified as one component in a large-scale fraud, targeting a Wapack Labs’ client. ProxyLTE.com was created in late 2017, however associated malware was first observed in 2013. This report includes details on ProxyLTE malware and associated infrastructure.

2019 Cyber Security Threat and Vulnerability Predictions

2019 Cyber Security Threat and Vulnerability Predictions

This report outlines our predictions regarding cyber threats and vulnerabilities for 2019.  We base those on the trends Wapack Labs were observing during 2018.  The main topics are artificial intelligence, IoT and mobile, cryptocurrency cybercrime, APT activity, and eCommerce targeting.

  1. Smarter Computing: Swarm, AI and Quantum

Quantum Computing

IBM-Q allows access to its quantum computer for research and testing. Quantum computing will revolut