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The new strategies and tactics of cybercriminals

There has been an average of eight new threat samples per second, and an increasing use of fileless malware attacks leveraging Microsoft PowerShell in the last quarter of 2017, according to the McAfee Labs Threats Report: March 2018. The Q4 spike in Bitcoin value prompted cybercriminals to focus on cryptocurrency hijacking through a variety of methods, including malicious Android apps. “The fourth quarter was defined by rapid cybercriminal adoption of newer tools and schemes—fileless malware, cryptocurrency mining, and steganography. Even tried-and-true tactics, such as ransomware campaigns, were leveraged beyond their usual means to create smoke and mirrors to distract defenders from actual attacks,” said Raj Samani, McAfee...

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Move over ransomware attacks as hackers take to cryptojacking

When it comes to increased cryptojacking activities, India is second in the Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) region and ninth globally as hackers create a highly-profitable, new revenue stream with crypto-mining, cyber security giant Symantec said on Wednesday.According to Symantec's "Internet Security Threat Report", detection of coinminers on endpoint computers increased by a whopping 8,500% in 2017."Cryptojacking is a rising threat to cyber and personal security," Tarun Kaura, Director, Enterprise Security Product Management, APJ at Symantec, said in a statement."The massive profit incentive puts people, devices and organizations at risk of unauthorised coinminers siphoning resources from their systems,...

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Ten Percent of Mobile Subscribers at Serious Risk of ID Theft

Data aggregated from global operators indicates 60% of suspicious domains are linked to phishing Thursday, November 2nd, 2017 EDISON, New Jersey, Nov. 2, 2017 /PRNewswire/ Korea IT Times-- Flash Networks, the leading provider of mobile Internet optimization, security, and engagement solutions, today published new market data highlighting the vulnerability of mobile users to ID theft via phishing attacks. Alarmingly, data collected from global operators shows that more than 10% of users are exposed to phishing attempts. Mobile subscribers are being exposed to increasing risk as the volume and sophistication of attacks escalate. Data from mobile operator deployments reveal that: 3% of all domains visited are classified...

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WPA2 security flaw puts almost every Wi-Fi device at risk of hijack, eavesdropping

A security protocol at the heart of most modern Wi-Fi devices, including computers, phones, and routers, has been broken, putting almost every wireless-enabled device at risk of attack. The bug, known as "KRACK" for Key Reinstallation Attack, exposes a fundamental flaw in WPA2, a common protocol used in securing most modern wireless networks. Mathy Vanhoef, a computer security academic, who found the flaw, said the weakness lies in the protocol's four-way handshake, which securely allows new devices with a pre-shared password to join the network. That weakness can, at its worst, allow an attacker to decrypt network traffic from a WPA2-enabled device, hijack connections, and inject content into the traffic stream. In other words: this...

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Here is every patch for KRACK Wi-Fi attack available right now

Monday morning was not a great time to be an IT admin, with the public release of a bug which allowed WPA2 security to be broken. As reported previously by ZDNet, the bug, dubbed "KRACK" -- which stands for Key Reinstallation Attack -- is at heart a fundamental flaw in the way Wi-Fi Protected Access II (WPA2) operates. The security protocol, an upgrade from WPA, is used to protect and secure communications between everything from our routers, mobile devices, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices, but there is an issue in the system's four-way handshake which permits devices with a pre-shared password to join a network. According to security researcher Mathy Vanhoef, who discovered the flaw, threat actors can leverage the vulnerability...

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Low-cost tools making #cybercrime more accessible

A report from the security vendor has said the increasing affordability of cybercrime tools is providing budding criminals with a low barrier of entry into the game. Malware as a service, along with the affordability of spam botnets, is providing criminals with a low barrier of entry into the cybercrime space, a report from SecureWorks has said. In 2017 State of Cybercrime: Exposing the threats techniques and markets that fuel the economy of cybercriminals, the SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit explained that less experienced hackers are able to purchase information-stealing malware for reasonably low prices, and, as a result, this has increased who can conduct malicious activity online. "The internet underground is thriving with ready-to-purchase...

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