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Cryptomining dethrones ransomware as top threat in 2018

Issued by: Help Net Security

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 money making endeavors, as shown by the uptick in cryptojacking and cryptomining. There has been a massive shift from ransomware to cryptomining Malware in general, including ransomware and…

Malware & Threats

Cryptocurrency mining malware increases 86%

Issued by: Help Net Security

McAfee released its McAfee Labs Threats Report September 2018, examining the growth and trends of new cyber threats in Q2 2018. In the second quarter, they saw the surge in cryptomining malware growth that began in Q4 2017 continue through the first half of 2018. McAfee also saw the continued adaptation of the type of…

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A law enforcement view of emerging cybercrime threats

Issued by: Help Net Security

Cybercriminals are adopting creative new techniques to target their victims at an unprecedented pace and are constantly seeking methods to avoid law enforcement detection. To stay ahead of them, law enforcement should target cybercriminals offering “off-the-shelf” cyber-attack services or products to make it more difficult for low-level cybercriminals to carry out high-level attacks. Europol’s fifth…

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Websites Attack Attempts Rose in Q2

Issued by: Dark Reading

New data shows attackers are trying to sneak past malware scanners on websites using stealthy hacks such as cryptojacking and malicious JavaScript. Website security service provider SiteLock analyzed data from 6 million customer websites for the second quarter of 2018 and found that a website, on average, suffers 58 attack attempts per day – or…

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Analysis of half-a-billion emails reveals malware-less email attacks are on the rise

Issued by: Help Net Security

FireEye analyzed over half-a-billion emails from 1H 2018, and found that 32% of email traffic seen in the first half of 2018 was considered ‘clean’ and actually delivered to an inbox. Their report also found that 1 in every 101 emails had malicious intent. When compared to the previous six-month period, the changes in both…

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Phished credentials caused twice as many breaches than malware in the past year

Issued by: Help Net Security

Personal device use for remote work poses the biggest security risk to organisations safeguarding their increasingly mobile and cloud-based IT environment, according to a new survey of 100 UK-based senior IT security professionals. Conducted from March to May by Rant, the survey found 58 percent of respondents believe that network access from non-corporate and personally-owned…

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Banking Trojan attacks increase, large scale Ramnit campaign impacts organizations worldwide

Issued by: Help Net Security

Check Point revealed a significant increase in attacks using the Ramnit banking trojan. Ramnit has doubled its global impact over the past few months, driven by a large scale campaign that has been converting victim’s machines into malicious proxy servers. During August 2018, Ramnit became the most prevalent banking Trojan in an upward trend in…

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Attackers Employ Social Engineering to Distribute New Banking Trojan

Issued by: Dark Reading

Unknown attackers have begun using a sophisticated, new banking Trojan, dubbed CamuBot, to steal money from the business customers of several major banks in Brazil, a country sometimes used as a testing ground for financial malware that is about to be launched globally. IBM X-Force security researchers, who have been tracking the threat, this week…

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Fileless malware: getting the lowdown on this insidious threat

Issued by: Blog Malwarebytes

Traditionally, malware attacks as we have always known them are files written to disk in one form or another that require execution in order to carry out their malicious scope. Fileless malware, on the other hand, is intended to be memory resident only, ideally leaving no trace after its execution. The malicious payload exists dynamically…

Network Security

Corporate pre-crime: The ethics of using AI to identify future insider threats

Issued by: CSO

To protect corporate networks against malware, data exfiltration and other threats, security departments have systems in place to monitor email traffic, URLs and employee behaviors. With artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, this data can also be used to make predictions. Is an employee planning to steal data? To defraud the company? To engage in…