Cyber Bites

Despite the 2018 crackdown on Fin7, the cybercrime group has been ramping up its efforts with two new malware samples and an attack panel. Source: Threatpost

A study tested two dozen medicine apps to find out how and where they're sharing your personal data. Source: Motherboard

As phishing attacks become increasingly commonplace, it’s important to know what to look out for. But not all phishing attacks are the same, and some are far more sophisticated than others. Cybersecurity experts say spear phishing in particular is on the rise. Source: Gizmodo

Russian hackers have targeted European government systems ahead of the EU parliament election, cybersecurity firm FireEye said Thursday. Source: CNBC

It should come as no surprise that cybercriminals favored Microsoft Office vulnerabilities in their cyberattacks last year, given the rise in phishing attacks that included rigged Word and Excel Office file attachments. Source: ZDNet

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has fined Brexit Campaign group Vote Leave £40,000 ($53,000) for sending out nearly 200,000 unsolicited text messages. Source: BBC News

Email security in UK government organisations is lagging far behind that of central government, analysis reveals, with less than a third implementing standard protection Source: Computer Weekly

A fake advertisement in the Google search results has been running for the past week that looked just like a legitimate ad for eBay. When you clicked on it, though, instead of being brought to the auction site you would be shown an incredibly annoying tech support scam that would try to lock up your browser. Source: Bleeping Computer

The average distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack size shrunk 85% in the fourth quarter of 2018 following an FBI takedown of "booter," or DDoS-for-hire, websites, in December 2018, researchers report. Source: Dark Reading

Third-party advertising technology (ad tech) trackers from 112 companies were found on 89% of official government websites of EU member states by Cookiebot, a cookie and online tracking consent solution, after scanning 184,683 pages. Source: Bleeping Computer