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Emotet malware gang re-emerges with Chrome-based credit card heistware

Crimeware groups are re-inventing themselves The criminals behind the Emotet botnet – which rose to fame as a banking trojan before evolving into spamming and malware delivery – are now using it to target credit card information stored in the Chrome web browser.…

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Now that’s taking the p… Sewage plant ‘hacked’ to craft crypto-coins

Mining Monero on SCADA networks? Why can’t you kids be normal and just DDoS Updated   Infosec bods say they have uncovered what’s thought to be the first case of a major industrial control system network infected with cryptocurrency-mining malware.…

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Now that’s taking the p… Sewage plant ‘hacked’ to craft crypto-coins

FCC: We could tell you our cybersecurity plan… but we’d have to kill you

Despite Pai on face, US federal regulator keeps digging DDoS BS hole America’s broadband watchdog, the FCC, has continued digging an ever-deeper hole over its claims it was subject to a distributed denial-of-service attack.…

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NCA arrests six Lizard Squad users after gaming firms, retailers targetted

Officers also visiting 50 addresses for a quiet word The National Crime Agency has arrested six users of a Lizard Squad DDoS attack tool, which had been used against a national newspaper, a school, gaming companies, and a number of online retailers.…

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NCA arrests six Lizard Squad users after gaming firms, retailers targetted

NCA arrests six Lizard Squad users after gaming firms, retailers targeted

Officers also visiting 50 addresses for a quiet word The National Crime Agency has arrested six users of a Lizard Squad DDoS attack tool, which had been used against a national newspaper, a school, gaming companies, and a number of online retailers.…

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Spooks, plod and security industry join to chase bank hacker

Perp known as ‘DD4BC’ has some serious heat on his or her tail, with worse to come A group of security boffins have joined police and intelligence spooks in a clandestine mission to identify those behind distributed denial of service (DDoS) extortion attacks against major banks.…

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Revisiting takedown wins: Are users in the developing world getting left behind?

We have all seen the headlines: another botnet dismantled, and we can all rest easy that the threat that has been plaguing us for all those years is now no longer an issue. After the headlines, howeve…

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Revisiting takedown wins: Are users in the developing world getting left behind?

Week in review: APT wars, 18-year-old bug endangers Windows users, and main sources of data breaches

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news and articles: Simda botnet taken down in global operation The Simda botnet, believed to have infected more than 770,000 computers …

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Cisco splats router bug that can lead to persistent DoS

Cisco has patched a vulnerability that affects Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers and can be exploited by a remote, unauthenticated attacker to effectively mount a denial of service at…

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