Secjuice Squeeze Volume 37

Welcome to the 37th edition of the Secjuice Squeeze, a curated selection of interesting security articles and infosec news that you may have missed, lovingly curated for you every week. This week's volume was curated by Secjuice writers Sinwindie, Prasanna, and Muhammad Luqman.

Articles

Norway's parliament says it was hit by 'significant' cyber attack

The Norwegian parliament suffered a cyber attack during the past week and the e-mail accounts of several elected members as well as employees were hacked, the national assembly and a counter-intelligence agency said on Tuesday.

Source & Link: reuters.com
Curator: Sinwindie

ThiefBot: A New Android Banking Trojan Targeting Turkish Banking Users

Recently an android banking bot is being advertised on a hacking forum named as ThiefBot which seems to be targeting Turkish banking users.

Source & Link: xunison.com
Curator: Prasanna

Attackers abuse Google DNS over HTTPS to download malware

More details have emerged on a malware sample that uses Google DNS over HTTPS to retrieve the stage 2 malicious payload.

Source & Link: bleepingcomputer.com
Curator: Sinwindie

A New Botnet Is Covertly Targeting Millions of Servers

FritzFrog has been used to try and infiltrate government agencies, banks, telecom companies, and universities across the US and Europe.

Source & Link: wired.com
Curator: Muhammad Luqman

New KryptoCibule Windows malware is a triple threat for cryptocurrency users

The malware has been active since late 2018 and has targeted users in the Czech Republic and Slovakia primarily (for now).

Source & Link: zdnet.com
Curator: Sinwindie

The IRS Wants to Buy Tools to Trace Privacy-Focused Cryptocurrency Monero

The agency is offering up to $1 million dollars for developers who can create technologies to track Monero and Bitcoin Lightning Network transactions.

Source & Link: vice.com
Curator: Sinwindie

Upcoming Events, Webcasts, Conferences, etc.

Predict 2020: Intelligence to Disrupt the Status Quo

When: October 5-8, 2020
Location: Virtual
Cost: Free
Source & Link: recordedfuture.com
Curator: Miguel Calles

Ai4 2020

When: September 1-2, 2020
Location: MGM Grand, Las Vegas
Cost: $595 (early registration)
Source & Link: ai4.io
Curator: Miguel Calles

Open Source Digital Forensics Conference

When: October 20-22, 2020
Location: Herndon, VA
Cost: $0-$350 + $499 optional training
Source & Link: osdfcon.org
Curator: Hartoyo Wahyu

BIG List of Virtual Cybersecurity Conferences

Source & Link: https://github.com/santosomar/virtualseccons
Curator: Guise Bule