Two major Canadian banks, Bank of Montreal and Simplii Financial, have become victims of hacks that affected some 50,000 and 40,000 customers respectively. Neither bank decided to pay the ransom by the hackers’ May 28 deadline.
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Month: May 2018
The domain of the little-used SpamCannibal DNS blacklist had expired, resulting in it effectively listing every single IP address.
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Researchers at IBM X-Force have discovered MnuBot, a banking trojan targeting users in Brazil, which is noteworthy for using SQL Server for command and control communication.
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XMRig used in new macOS cryptominer
A new piece of cryptocurrency-mining malware on macOS has been found to use the popular XMRig miner.
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CDN provider Cloudflare reports an increase in DDoS attacks targeting layer 7 and focusing on exhausting server resources rather than sending large volumes of data. This fits in a wider trend.
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Though IPv6 is gradually replacing IPv4 on the Internet’s network layer, email is lagging behind, the difficulty in blocking spam sent over IPv6 cited as a reason not to move. But would we really have such a hard time blocking spam sent over IPv6?
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Through fake social media accounts, users were tricked into installing an Android application that was actually a mobile version of the FinFisher spyware.
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Security is a top priority for financial institutions around the world. In the past few weeks, the U.K.โs TSB Bank has learned the hard way that availability is even more important. And when availability is an issue, security canโt be ignored.
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Hide'n'Seek IoT botnet adds persistence
The Hide’n’Seek IoT botnet has received an update to make its infection persist on infected devices beyond a restart.
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A new strain of malware that targets cryptocurrency users โ but not users of mainstream payment options like bank accounts โ highlights how much the cybercrime game is changing behind the scenes.
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