Newsmaker Interview: Troy Mursch on Why Cryptojacking Isn’t Going Away
Criminals have found a mischievous way to mine cryptocurrency. Security researcher Troy Mursch sounds off on why this tricky trend isn't going away anytime soon.
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How Shared Pools of Cloud Computing Power Are Changing the Way Attackers Operate
Cloud computing is creating new challenges among security professionals as attackers embrace the "as-a-service model", giving unsophisticated cybercriminals a leg up in carrying out attacks.
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Vulnerability in Robots Can Lead To Costly Ransomware Attacks
A vulnerability recently found in several robots on the market can enable hackers to cause them to stop working, curse at customers, or even perform violent movements as part of ransomware...
REvil Ransomware Attack Hits A-List Celeb Law Firm
Cybercriminals used the REvil ransomware to attack a law firm used by the likes of Lady Gaga, Drake and Madonna. Now, they're threatening to leak the 756 gigabytes of stolen data.
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News Wrap: IoT Radio Telnet Backdoor And ‘SimJacker’ Active Exploit
Threatpost editors Tara Seals and Lindsey O'Donnell talk about the top news stories of the week - from leaky databases to SIM card attacks.
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Memory Corruption Mitigations Doing Their Job
At the Security Analyst Summit, Mark Dowd described how memory corruption mitigations are successfully driving up exploit development costs.
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Critical Adobe Flaws Fixed in Out-of-Band Update
Two critical Adobe vulnerabilities have been fixed in Adobe After Effects and Adobe Media Encoder.
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Arrests of members of Tetrade seed groups Grandoreiro and Melcoz
Spain’s Ministry of the Interior has announced the arrest of 16 individuals connected to the Grandoreiro and Melcoz (also known as Mekotio) cybercrime groups. Both are originally from Brazil and form...
The chronicles of Emotet
More than six years have passed since the banking Trojan Emotet was first detected. During this time it has repeatedly mutated, changed direction, acquired partners, picked up modules, and generally been...
Steam Patches Broken Crypto in Wake of Replay, Padding Oracle Attacks
The digital gaming platform Steam was quick to patch a cryptographic issue in the client recently that could have allowed an attacker to read sensitive information sent over its network, take...
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Ryuk Hauls in $3.7M in ‘Earnings,’ Adds TrickBot to the Attack...
The malware's operator, Grim Spider, could be affiliated with Russian cybercrime rings, according to some -- others say there's no concrete evidence.
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