In a collaborative effort, security researchers with Avast and the French police took down a massive cryptomining botnet earlier this year. The botnet consisted of 850,000 machines that were infected …
TrickBot Targets Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint Users to Siphon PINs
Threat actors are using TrickBot malware, which previously plagued US banks, in order to carry out SIM swapping attacks targeting users of Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint and other US-based mobile carriers, …
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Magecart Shops for Victims as E-Commerce Market Grows
A researcher with Aite Group recently discovered a cluster of 80 e-commerce websites that had been injected with card-skimming malware by Magecart actors. Magecart is an umbrella term for various …
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Some employees willing to use company data to snag job at competitor
A recent survey by Gurucul reveals that nearly one in four (24%) security experts would use information of their current company to help their chances of getting a better job at another firm. Some …
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WannaCry Remains No. 1 Ransomware Weapon
Over two years after the global WannaCry infection, the infamous worm continues to be the most detected ransomware variant out there, a new Trend Micro study shows. In the first six months of this …
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Low Budgets, Limited Expertise Plague SMB Cybersecurity
Four in five (80%) small business owners consider IT security a priority for their undertaking, a new Untangle report found. However, almost half (48%) of small firms have a yearly cybersecurity …
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New Threat Group Targets Middle East
Hackers belonging to a threat group dubbed LYCEUM (aka HEXANE) have been launching attacks on organizations in the oil and gas sector since May of this year, new research by SecureWorks shows. This …
Trojan Dropper Malware Found in Android App With 100M Downloads
A popular Android app with over 100 million installs from the Google Play Store recently began serving users a Trojan dropper than can install other malware on affected devices, security researchers …
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Imperva ‘security incident’ exposes customer data
The data of a "subset of customers" of Imperva's Cloud Web Application Firewall was exposed in a “security incident” in September 2017, the cybersecurity company has acknowledged. The compromised data …
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US officials fear ransomware attack against 2020 election
The US Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which is a division of the Homeland Security Department, has launched an initiative to help state election officials improve the security of …
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