A new threat actor named Dark Caracal and operating out of a building operated by the Lebanese e General Directorate of General Security (GDGS) has been fingered by Lookout and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) as being behind cyberattacks hitting thousands of victims in more than 20 nations worldwide.
The agency also has thwarted distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks as large as 600 Gbps and expects those attacks to grow to a terabyte or more.
In other cryptocurrency news, attackers were discovered exploiting a recently patched Oracle flaw in order to secretly deploy a Monero cryptominer in organizations' WebLogic application servers.
Researchers have attributed six separate phishing campaigns targeting South Koreans in either 2017 or 2018 to a single threat actor called "Group123," including multiple operations designed to infect victims with the remote administration tool ROKRAT.
More than 5.3 million residents of North Carolina were victims of data breaches in 2017 - an escalating trend that has prompted state Attorney General Josh Stein (D) and state Rep. Jason Saine (R) to introduce newly proposed legislation to prevent further incidents and protect the public.
The Inspector General's initial review indicated that the names, Medicaid ID numbers, birth dates, diagnoses, Social Security numbers, addresses, and medical conditions of up to 30,000 recipients "were accessed in part or full."
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