Insurance giant’s UK arm says cybercriminals misattributed the real victim Allianz UK confirms it was one of the many companies that fell victim to the Clop gang’s Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) attack after crims reported that they had attacked a subsidiary.… READ MORE HERE…

PLUS: India’s tech services exports growing fast; South Korea puts the bite on TXT spam; NTT gets into autonomous vehicles; and more! Asia In Brief  Chinese infosec blog MXRN last week reported a data breach at a security company called Knownsec that has ties to Beijing and Chinas military.… READ MORE HERE…

Esra’a Al Shafei spoke with The Reg about the spy tech ‘global trade’ interview  Digital rights activist Esra’a Al Shafei found FinFisher spyware on her device more than a decade ago. Now she’s made it her mission to surveil the companies providing surveillanceware, their customers, and their funders.… READ MORE HERE…

‘Precision espionage campaign’ began months before the flaw was fixed A previously unknown Android spyware family called LANDFALL exploited a zero-day in Samsung Galaxy devices for nearly a year, installing surveillance code capable of recording calls, tracking locations, and harvesting photos and logs before Samsung finally patched it in April.… READ MORE HERE…