Bluepurple Pulse: week ending September 10th

Sweden has a Psychological Defence Agency...

Welcome to the weekly highlights and analysis of the blueteamsec subreddit (and my wider reading). Not everything makes it in, but the best bits do.

Operationally this week you will see some of the exploitation is rather sophisticated (and not in the we have been hacked by a sophisticated threat actor sense). Outside of that it is business as usual although defensive tradecraft on show in some places is great..

In the high-level this week:

• KBS is a South Korean public broadcast service segment on Cyber and North Korean activity - you can use auto translated closed captions to understand.

• UK sanctions members of Russian cybercrime gang - love that we (the UK) have started to financially sanction along with the US cyber actors.

• Japan imposes financial sanctions on North Korea - includes crypto asset addresses used to direct/collect hacked funds.

• 'Blatant and malicious': Telstra-owned Digicel Pacific used by spies-for-hire, cyber security analysis shows - enabled various offensive operations i…