The Internet Bug Bounty (IBB), a project whose goal is to make the Web safer by rewarding white hat hackers who find vulnerabilities in core Internet infrastructure and open source software, announced on Friday that it has secured a $300,000 donation.
Source:: securityweek
The ‘splash screens’ of seventy-six different types of ransomware have been analyzed by a cyber-psychologist from De Montfort University.
Source:: securityweek
After introducing the product at the Google I/O conference in May, Google has now made its Play Protect security services available to all Android users.
Source:: securityweek
The Cisco® 2017 Midyear Cybersecurity Report (MCR) uncovers the rapid evolution of threats and the increasing magnitude of attacks, and forecasts potential “destruction of service” (DeOS) attacks.
Source:: Security magazin
A British man pleaded guilty last week in a German court to launching a cyberattack that resulted in more than one million customers of telecommunications provider Deutsche Telekom experiencing Internet disruptions.
Source:: securityweek
The three primary trends in the incidence of destructive cyber-attacks are that they are increasing; they are usually state-sponsored; and they do not, apart from a few rare occurrences, involve anything more than basic tools. Potentially more concerning for private industry, however, is a lack of concern over what, in kinetic warfare, would be termed ‘collateral damage’.
Source:: securityweek
This week at Black Hat, Mac malware expert Patrick Wardle will describe how he used a custom-built command and control server to analyze new spying capabilities in a variant of the FruitFly backdoor. …read more
Source:: Threat Post
A China-linked cyber espionage group tracked by security firms as Lotus Blossom, Elise, Esile and Spring Dragon has used more than 600 malware samples in its attacks over the past years, according to Kaspersky Lab.
Source:: securityweek
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