Infosecurity News

Phishing Campaign Hides Malware in Resumes
Cyber-criminals pose as job seekers to deliver Quasar RAT.

Facial Recognition Technology Creates a Fine Mess in Sweden
A Swedish municipality may still introduce facial recognition technology in schools despite receiving the country’s first GDPR violation fine for trialing it.

Drained Batteries? These Stealth Ad-Clicking Apps Could Be to Blame
Malicious apps that clicks ads on the sly have been discovered on Google Play Store.

Global Breach Costs Set to Top $5 Trillion By 2024
Juniper Research claims staff training will become increasingly important

Alleged Capital One Hacker Also Accused of Crypto-Jacking
New indictment reveals charges carrying penalties of up to 25 years

Hong Kong ISPs Hit Back at Government Censorship
Concerns city-state’s CEO will order blocking of specific apps

The Great, Big Ransomware Revival
McAfee Labs has reported a 118% growth in new ransomware in Q1 2019.

New Botnet Targets Android Set-Top Boxes
Misconfigured Android set-top boxes are vulnerable to attack by new IoT botnet Ares.

French Police Destroy International Botnet
France teams up with Avast to cure 850,000 computers of the Retadup virus.

NATO: Attack Like WannaCry Could Prompt “Collective Defense Commitment”
Jens Stoltenberg goes on record to outline NATO’s new combined defensive stance

Trojanized CamScanner App Had 100 Million Google Play Downloads
Google removes PDF creator after Kaspersky research

Imperva Breach Hits Cloud Customers
Some users of Incapsula Cloud Web App Firewall are at risk

US Government Flags 2020 Election Ransomware Threat
CISA looking to step up protection of voter registration databases

New Threat Group Targets Middle East
A new threat group has been observed targeting oil and gas companies in the Middle East.

One in Four Security Pros Would Steal Company Info to Bag Better Job
A quarter of IT security professionals surveyed admit they would steal company information to land a more senior role with a competitor.

UK Gov Launches £30m 5G Competition
The British government has launched a UK-wide competition aimed at bringing 5G to rural communities.

#OSSummit: Linux Continues to Pay the Price for CPU Hardware Vulnerabilities
The many new CPU hardware security challenges that Linux developers have faced in the past year

Apple Fixes Jailbreak Bug For the Second Time
Original patch was accidentally rolled back by Cupertino

#OSSummit: Don’t Ignore GitHub Security Alerts
The security challenges and opportunities facing organizations that build open source projects on GitHub

Over 50,000 UK SMEs Could Collapse Following Cyber-Attack
Insurer Gallagher claims incidents cost over £8bn last year



