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Mexico Organized Crime-Related Executions Hit Record High – Mexico
Executions linked to organized crime in Mexico have risen to record levels during the first six months of 2018, according to a new report, underscoring how shifting criminal dynamics continue to negatively impact levels of violence in the country. A record 11,241 executions linked to organized crime groups in Mexico were recorded during the first six months of 2018, an average of more than 60 per day and a 28 percent increase from the same period last year, according to a new report from the watchdog agency Semáforo Delictivo and Lantia Consultores, a non-profit that tracks killings connected to organized crime. The 310 percent increase in homicides in the Pacific state of Nayarit compared to the same time period last year was the highest in Mexico. This was followed by a 134 percent increase in the Caribbean state of Quintana Roo and a 130 percent increase in the central state of Guanajuato.
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Microsoft Discovers Supply Chain Attack At Unnamed Maker Of PDF Software – Worldwide
Microsoft said today that hackers compromised a font package installed by a PDF editor app and used it to deploy a cryptocurrency miner on users’ computers. The OS maker discovered the incident after its staff received alerts via the Windows Defender ATP, the commercial version of the Windows Defender antivirus. Microsoft employees say they investigated the alerts and determined that hackers breached the cloud server infrastructure of a software company providing font packages as MSI files. These MSI files were offered to other software companies. One of these downstream companies was using these font packages for its PDF editor app, which would download the MSI files from the original company’s cloud servers during the editor’s installation routine. “Attackers recreated the [first company’s] infrastructure on a replica server that the attackers owned and controlled. They copied and hosted all MSI files, including font packages, all clean and digitally signed, in the replica server,” Microsoft’s security researchers said.
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Intel Cites China, Russia, Iran As “Aggressive” Perpetrators Of Cyber Espionage – Worldwide
In the latest of a series of intensifying warnings about cyber threats issued by the U.S. intelligence community, a new report says that China, Russia and Iran stand out as the three most hostile foreign actors to engage in economic espionage and in stealing proprietary secrets from American companies and corporations, noting that emerging technologies could expose some companies to previously unknown threats. “We anticipate that China, Russia and Iran will remain aggressive and capable collectors of sensitive U.S. economic information and technologies, particularly in cyberspace,” said the report, which was issued by the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) and compiled with input from more than a dozen intelligence agencies. “All will almost certainly continue to deploy significant resources and a wide array of tactics to acquire intellectual property and proprietary information.”
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