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ROMANIA
ASERT research has discovered that Romania is the latest victim of the surge in geopolitical DDoS attacks .
In ASERT Principal Security Analyst Chris Conrad ’ s X Thread , it is revealed that these attacks are not specific to any single industry or adversary , as they target a variety of verticals , with several hacktivist groups taking credit for attacks .
The first major spike occurred on June 2 , 2024 , coinciding with the possibility of Romania transferring Patriot missiles to Ukraine . On this day , the number of direct-path attacks against Romanian websites jumped to 352 in a single day .
Multiple groups have claimed responsibility for these waves of attacks against Romanian targets including CyberDragon and Cyber Army of Russia .
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Checkmarx has revealed that a series of malicious Python packages which have surfaced on PyPI , have been found exfiltrating sensitive user data to a telegram bot chat without consent .
The malicious package activity has been found to be part of a larger , sophisticated cybercriminal operation based in Iraq .
Uploaded recently to PyPI by user ‘ dsfsdfds ’, the packages have been stealing data and posting to a telegram bot which is linked to the larger criminal ecosystem .
The bot functions as an underground marketplace offering social media manipulation services , is linked to financial theft and exploits victims compromised by the malicious PyPI packages . Its activity dates back to 2022 and contains more than 90,000 messages , mostly in Arabic .
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