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Adobe Flash
Fake Flash updaters deliver cryptominers AND update Flash

Cryptominers have dethroned ransomware as the top malware threat and cybercriminals are coming up with new ways to keep the mining activity secret from the victims. One of …

money
Identity spoofing is the most prevalent attack vector for the gaming and gambling industry

A new ThreatMetrix Cybercrime Report revealed that identity spoofing, fuelled by stolen identity data, is the most prevalent attack vector for the gaming and gambling …

malware
Researchers link Industroyer to NotPetya

ESET researchers believe they have found evidence that the TeleBots APT was behind the December 2016 attacks against the Ukraine energy sector that resulted in blackouts …

bomb
IIS attacks surge from 2,000 to 1.7 million over last quarter

IIS, Drupal, and Oracle WebLogic web technologies experienced increased attacks in Q2 2018. According to a new threat report from eSentire, IIS attacks showed a massive …

biohazard
Cryptomining dethrones ransomware as top threat in 2018

Based on trends in the first half of 2018, Webroot found that cybercriminals are shifting to increasingly sophisticated and targeted means of attack while also expanding their …

BEC scams
BEC-as-a-Service: Hacked accounts available from $150

Digital Shadows has announced the findings of new research revealing the diversity of methods used to infiltrate company emails. The FBI has estimated that scams resulting …

Socure
Identity fraudsters are getting better and better at what they do

Socure, a provider of predictive analytics for digital identity verification, found that fraudsters have virtually eliminated reliable indicators for detecting fake identities …

Europe
SIE Europe: Data sharing initiative to combat cybercrime launches

SIE Europe emerged from stealth mode to launch an initiative to enable European organisations to contribute and share Internet data. This consortium advances the detection and …

shop online
Explosion of look-alike domains aims to steal sensitive data from online shoppers

Venafi released research on the explosion of look-alike domains, which are routinely used to steal sensitive data from online shoppers. Venafi’s research analyzed suspicious …

danger
Phorpiex bots target remote access servers to deliver ransomware

Threat actors are brute-forcing their way into enterprise endpoints running server-side remote access applications and attempting to spread the GandCrab ransomware onto other …

alert
LoJax: First-ever UEFI rootkit detected in a cyberattack

ESET researchers have discovered a cyberattack that used a UEFI rootkit to establish a presence on the victims’ computers. Dubbed LoJax, this rootkit was part of a campaign …

shark
New tactics subvert traditional security measures and strike organizations of all sizes

Alert Logic released its latest cybersecurity analysis, “Critical Watch Report: The State of Threat Detection 2018,” which shows attackers are gaining vastly greater scale …

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