Infosecurity News

Lazarus Group Exposed with Major New North Korea Link
Kaspersky Lab researchers highlight huge scale and sophistication of operations

Chinese Hackers Targeted Global Firms Via Supply Chain
APT10 group pegged for massive Operation Cloud Hopper campaign

Bogus Nintendo Switch Emulator Scams Gamers
The emulators are duping gaming enthusiasts into downloading unwanted applications and more.

Most Users Haven't Changed Social Media Passwords in a Year
About 53% of users haven’t changed their social network passwords in more than one year—with a fifth having never changed their passwords at all.

New Study to Explore Relationship Between Autism and Cybercrime
Bath university researchers will start project today

IT Admin Guilty of Hacking of Former Employer
El Paso bootmaker suffered serious downtime and extra costs following incident

Cerber Learns to Evade Machine Learning
For every new malware detection technique, an equivalent evasion technique is created out of necessity.

CyberFirst Girls' Hacking Competition Showcases Teen Skills
The UK’s CyberFirst Girls’ competition saw 37 young ladies representing 10 teams displaying impressive code-cracking abilities.

Law Firms Face Increase in Attacks
One in four of all legal firms have been the subject of a cyber-attack

Fake WordPress Plugin Opens Sites to Criminals
Dubbed WP-Base-SEO, the plugin is a forgery of a legitimate search engine optimization plugin.

New Malware Lets Attackers Encrypt 'Hand-Picked' Systems & Files
New ransomware technique dubbed 'What You See Is What You Encrypt'

New Mirai Variant Hits Target with 54-hour DDoS
US college under fire from app-layer attack

40% of ICS, Critical Infrastructure Targeted by Cyberattacks
Every fourth targeted attack detected by Kaspersky Lab in 2016 was aimed at industrial targets.

Russian Hacker Pleads Guilty to Ebury Botnet Role
Maxim Senakh said to have benefitted from scams that made millions

Hong Kong’s 3.7 Million Voters Exposed in Massive Breach
Encrypted details are stolen on two laptops

Tributes Flood in as Industry Veteran Genes Passes Away
Trend Micro CTO was 54

Apple iPhone Users in Crosshairs of a Scareware Campaign
A scareware attack is targeting Apple iPhone and iPad users, “locking” their browsers unless they pay a ransom.

Led by AdultFriendFinder, Breached Records Spike 86%
1,792 data breaches led to almost 1.4 billion data records being compromised worldwide during 2016.

Apple Dials Up Encryption as Mobile Threats Soar
Nokia report reveals 83% increase in smartphone infections

LastPass Races to Fix Yet Another Serious Flaw
Google’s Ormandy once again the bearer of bad news



