Infosecurity News

Mayor Urged to Halt “Intrusive” Met Facial Recognition Trials
London police profiling public without appropriate legal framework

US Army Exposes Terabytes of Surveillance Data
S3 buckets contain billions of citizens' internet records

Fake Black Friday Apps Set to Cause Consumer Chaos
RiskIQ warns that one in 25 are malicious

UK Faces Most Fraudulent Christmas Ever, Barclays Warns
Banking giant estimates festive fraud will cost victims £1.63bn

Cash Converters Hit by Suspected Data Breach
Pawnbroker reportedly received email threat from hacker

Zeus Spawn 'Terdot' is a Banking Trojan with a Twist
It has man-in-the-middle (MITM) abilities to steal browsing information such as login credentials and stored credit-card information.

Sneaky Multi-Stage Android Malware Spreads Banking Trojans in Google Play
The apps don't request any suspicious permissions and they even mimic expected legitimate activity.

Forever 21 Confirms Data Breach
A number of stores did not receive an encryption upgrade to their point of sale devices.

Q3 Sees a Whopping 400M Malware Infections
Malware occurrences in Q3 totaled roughly four times the number in Q2 (97 million).

Fileless Malware on the Rise, Becoming Top Endpoint Threat
54% of respondents said their company has experienced a successful endpoint attack—mostly from fileless malware.

Microsoft and Adobe Patch 139 Flaws this Month
No zero-days but plenty to keep admins busy

Governments Undermined Elections in 18 Countries Last Year
Freedom House report shows this goes way beyond US-Russia

Fasten Database Error Exposed One Million Customers
Data on thousands of drivers also left public for two days

Muslim Hacktivists Declare All-Out Cyber-War on ISIS
The group promises to "wash them from their internet hiding places" on November 17.

'Highly Secure' Cloud Tool, Huddle, Exposes Private KPMG, BBC Files
A journalist found himself redirected to a private account at KPMG, where he was given full access to financial data.

WikiLeaks Releases Source Code for Vault7 Tools
Experts predict a rocky road ahead in 2018

Malwarebytes Wins Legal Tussle Against Alleged PUP-Maker
Enigma Software Group said it unfairly classified its security tools

World's Largest Student Cybersecurity Games Kicks Off at NYU
CSAW highlights include High School Forensics, where teams of high school students use cyber-skills to solve a murder.

Windows Movie Maker Scam Uses SEO to Go Global
A fake version of the discontinued software continuously prompts the user to “upgrade to the full version” for $29.95.

Millions of Android Apps at Risk from Eavesdropper Vulnerability
It exposes hundreds of millions of call records, minutes of calls, minutes of call audio recordings, and SMS and MMS texts.



