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The directors of two UK companies have received several-year bans after allowing their respective firms to make hundreds of thousands of nuisance calls and texts.Aaron Frederick Stalberg, (27), from Exmouth, was director of market research and polling business The Lead Experts, which made 115,000 illegal automated marketing calls to members of the public. Source: Infosecurity Magazine

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Decentralized app (DApp) MetaMask is facing fresh problems from cryptocurrency scammers after malware impersonating the tool appeared on Google Play, cybersecurity company Eset reported Feb. 8. The malware, which replaces computer clipboard information in an attempt to steal cryptocurrency, was removed by Google at the beginning of the month after a tip-off from Eset researchers. Source: Coin Telegraph

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Fraudsters are able to operate with impunity on social media networks like Instagram and Snapchat, scamming users and running little risk of being caught, a Sky News investigation has found. Police and anti-fraud groups are also warning that a too-trusting Instagram generation is falling victim to get-rich-quick scams, worth many millions of pounds a year to criminals. Source: Sky News

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Climate change increasingly ranks as the world’s most pressing security threat, with terrorism and cyberattacks also topping the list, according to a new survey by the Washington-based Pew Research Center. In a poll of 26 countries, 13 considered the warming planet the number one concern. This was followed by the threat of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which eight countries, including Russia, France, Indonesia and Nigeria, rated as the top threat. Four nations,...

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Two Weeks Out from the longest government shutdown in United States history—and with the possibility of another still looming—government employees are still scrambling to mitigate impacts on federal cybersecurity defenses. And the stakes are high. Furloughed cybersecurity employees returned to expired software licenses and web encryption certificates, colleagues burned out from working on skeleton crews, and weeks-worth of unanalyzed network activity logs. The job was already hard enough without having to play catch-up. Source: Wired

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Network attached storage maker QNAP's customers have reported being hit by a mystery strain of old-school malware that disables software updates by hijacking entries in host machines' hosts file. The malware's full effects are, as yet, unknown – but users have reported that the most visible symptom is that some 700 entries are added to the /etc/hosts file that redirect a bunch of requests to IP address 0.0.0.0. Source: The Register

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Business email compromised (BEC) attacks have seen an explosive 476% growth between Q4 2017 and Q4 2018, while the number of email fraud attempts against companies increased 226% QoQ. BEC attacks use social engineering to target specific company employees, regularly from the firm’s Finance department, and try to persuade them into wiring large sums of money to third-party banking accounts controlled by the attackers. Source: Bleeping Computer

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A spam-based phishing campaign recently targeted North American banking customers with malicious Excel documents designed to infect victims with a new variant of the information-stealing TrickBot banking trojan, researchers reported earlier this week. The scam dates back to at least Jan. 27 and peaked in volume on Jan. 30, according a new blog post from Blue Hexagon, a brand-new deep-learning cybersecurity firm that launched just this past Tuesday, Feb. 5. Source: SC Magazine

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An EE customer has said she was stalked by an ex-partner who worked at the firm, after he accessed her personal data without permission. Francesca Bonafede's number was switched to a new handset and her address and bank details were accessed. She said the company failed to take the data breach seriously and she had to involve police. EE "sincerely apologised" to Ms Bonafede, and said the employee no longer worked for the company. Source:...

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Parent gabfest platform Mumsnet has reported a data security breach that it claimed happened amid a "software change" en route to migrating services to the cloud. A user sounded the alarm yesterday evening that they were able to log into and view details of another user's account. This security screw-up, likely some kind of caching blunder, happened between 2pm GMT on 5 February and 9am GMT on 7 February. Source: The Register

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