Financial messaging system SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications) has laid out its blueprint for a global central bank digital currency (CBDC) network following an 8-month experiment on different technologies and currencies. The trial, which involved France and Germany's national central banks as well as global lenders like HSBC, Standard Chartered and UBS, looked at how CBDCs could be used internationally and even converted into fiat money if needed. Around 90% o
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Cyber threat researchers have examined security incidents over the past several years that appear to connect North Korea's Lazarus Group with Russian speaking attackers. A recent analysis has examined reports from years of security incidents to pinpoint links between Lazarus Group, historically tied to North Korea, and Russian-speaking cybercriminals.
In a summary of his findings, Mark Arena, CEO of security firm Intel 471, holds two generally accepted assumptions: that Lazarus Group is tied to
On 7-9 May 2019, Wapack Labs detected an increase in malicious emails with the spoofed sender field accounts@hhhmarine.com.sg. Hackers deliver malicious attachments under the pretense of an incoming SWIFT transfer (Figure 1).
Figure 1. Email text spoofing HHH Marine Services on 8 May 2019.
The attackers use the popular malware Lokibot. Wapack Labs detected communications of these samples to known and new Lokibot C2s:
- kbfvzoboss[.]bid/alien/fre.php
- carlos-tevez[.]gq/raphael/fre.php
- uenajrkja[.]ml/ch
