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Cybercriminals Shift Tools, Tactics and Procedures to Improve Infection Rates

Trend Micro released its Midyear Security Roundup 2018, revealing that cybercriminals are moving away from attention-grabbing ransomware attacks to more covert methods intended to steal money and valuable computing resources.

Botnets Serving Up More Multipurpose Malware

Attackers increasingly are distributing malware that can be used for a variety of different tasks, Kaspersky Lab says.

T-Mobile Hacked - 2 Million Customers' Personal Data Stolen

T-Mobile today confirmed that the telecom giant suffered a security breach on its US servers on August 20 that may have resulted in the leak of "some" personal information of up to 2 million T-Mobile customers.

6.4 Billion Fake Emails Sent Every Day

The Valimail Q2 2018 Email Fraud Landscape shows that fake email continues to be a serious problem, with an estimated 6.4 billion fake emails sent every day.

Hackers Use Public Cloud Features to Breach, Persist In Business Networks

Attackers are abusing the characteristics of cloud services to launch and hide their activity as they traverse target networks.

New Apache Struts RCE Flaws Lets Hackers Take Over Web Servers

Semmle security researcher Man Yue Mo has disclosed a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the popular Apache Struts web application framework that could allow remote attackers to run malicious code on the affected servers.

Marap Malware Appears, Targeting Financial Sector

A new form of modular downloader packs the ability to download other modules and payloads.

New PHP Code Execution Attack Puts WordPress Sites at Risk

Sam Thomas, a security researcher from Secarma, has discovered a new exploitation technique that could make it easier for hackers to trigger critical deserialization vulnerabilities in PHP programming language using previously low-risk considered functions.

Necurs Botnet Goes Phishing for Banks

A new Necurs botnet campaign targets thousands of banks with a malicious file dropping the FlawedAmmyy remote-access Trojan.

2.6 Billion Records Exposed in 2,300 Disclosed Breaches so Far This Year

Risk Based Security released its Mid-Year 2018 Data Breach QuickView report, showing there have been 2,308 publicly disclosed data compromise events through June 30th. After a surprising drop in the number of reported data breaches in first quarter, breach activity appears to be returning to a more[...]