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The attack surface is growing faster than it has at any other point in the history of technology

Issued by: Help Net Security

Avast launched its annual Threat Landscape Report, detailing the biggest security trends facing consumers in 2019 as collected by the Avast Threat Labs team. Some of the key security trends that will evolve or continue to impact consumers in 2019 include: The dawn of adversarial AI We foresee the emergence of a class of attacks…

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Major US newspapers crippled by Ryuk ransomware attack

Issued by: CSO

Ryuk ransomware is believed to be the culprit behind printing and delivery issues for “all Tribune Publishing newspapers” — as well as newspapers that used to be part of Tribune Publishing. The malware was discovered and later quarantined on Friday, but the security patches failed to hold when the servers were brought back online and…

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Attackers Use Google Cloud to Target US, UK Banks

Issued by: Dark Reading

A malicious email campaign has been found abusing a Google Cloud Storage service to host a payload sent to employees of financial services organizations, Menlo Labs researchers report. The threat appears to have been active in the US and UK since August 2018. Victims receive emails containing links to archive files; researchers say all instances…

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How to Optimize Security Spending While Reducing Risk

Issued by: Dark Reading

Globally, organizations have spent millions on security solutions; however, these purchasing decisions often are not based on fact or data — just hunches, expenditures, and market trends. Senior executives struggle to have complete visibility into their own company’s security posture as well as the current threat environment. There is a lack of comprehensive, near-real-time information…

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New Google+ Breach Will Lead to Early Service Shutdown

Issued by: Dark Reading

As vulnerabilities go, it was the best sort: found by internal testing before it led to a security breach. Nevertheless, the latest Google+ software vulnerability was enough to push forward shutting down the service: Google now says it will be shuttered by April 2019 rather than the originally planned August 2019. According to Google, the…

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Backdoors Up 44%, Ransomware Up 43% from 2017

Issued by: Dark Reading

Backdoor and ransomware detections increased 44% and 43%, respectively, in 2018, the same year nearly 30% of computers faced at least one malicious threat online, researchers report. The Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2018 found malware should be among everyone’s top concerns as we head into the new year. Kaspersky Labs handled 346,000 new malicious files each…

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7 warning signs of an insider threat

Issued by: CSO

Employees conducting attacks on their own employees – known as insider threats – are becoming increasingly common and costly. According to a CA report, over 50 percent of organizations suffered an insider threat-based attack in the previous 12 months, while a quarter say they are suffering attacks more frequently than in the previous year. Ninety…

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Making it harder for attackers to know when a system begins to deceive a bad actor

Issued by: Help Net Security

Can you deceive a deceiver? That’s the question that computer scientists at Binghamton University, State University of New York have recently been exploring. Assistant Professor of Computer Science Guanhua Yan and PhD student Zhan Shu are looking at how to make cyber deception a more effective tool against malicious hackers. Their study was inspired by…

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Overall Volume of Thanksgiving Weekend Malware Attacks Lower This Year

Issued by: Dark Reading

Somewhat unexpectedly, the overall volume of malware attacks leading up to and through this year’s Thanksgiving holiday weekend was actually substantially lower than for the same days last year. Security vendor SonicWall, which tracks threat data on a continuous basis, says its customers encountered a total of 91 million attacks overall in the days preceding…

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Encryption is the best way to protect payment card transaction data

Issued by: CSO

The PCI Security Standards Council (SSC), which drafts many payment card industry security standards, meets annually in Europe, Asia-Pacific and North America to share new standards, gather feedback from the community, and discuss the burning issues of the day. Security professionals who have to comply with PCI standards need to stay abreast of these updates….