QuoIntelligence’s Weekly Intelligence Snapshot for the week of 12 March – 19 March 2020 is now available! Find the summary below and subscribe to our mailing list at the bottom if you want to receive Weekly summaries and other regular updates from us!
CYBER
Current Threat
Researchers at Bitdefender discovered a new TrickBot module dubbed rdpScanDll that allows attackers to run brute-force attacks against Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections. The majority of attacks observed by researchers target the telecommunication industry, with some also observed against education and financial services in the US and Hong Kong.
Vulnerabilities
Adobe released an out-of-band security update addressing 41 flaws in Adobe Acrobat and Reader, ColdFusion, Experience Manager, Photoshop and more. Of the vulnerabilities 29 are critical in severity and 12 are rated as important.
GEOPOLITICS
QuoIntelligence estimated in February that remote working will increase due to the spread of coronavirus and this forecast has been realized over the previous weeks. The increase in remote work has resulted in additional cybersecurity concerns, which we are highlighting below. In addition, we will provide an overview of recent geopolitical developments related to Covid-19.
OUTLOOK
20 March – European Commission: Video Conference of the Competitiveness Council on the impacts of COVID-19 on EU industry and internal market
26 March – European Commission: Third virtual European Council (EUCO) on COVID-19
