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A new report from Kapersky Labs claims that cybercriminals are turning to cryptocurrency as a domain for scams and frauds. The schemes target ICO investors, who are perhaps vulnerable as they are seeking to invest money to begin with. “Kaspersky Lab experts have exposed a relatively new fraudulent trend: the development of cryptocurrency is not only attracting investors, but also cyber-criminals seeking to boost their profits,” reads the report. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Unhashed

The number of global organizations affected by crypto-mining malware more than doubled from the second half of 2017 to the first six months of this year, according to new data from Check Point. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Infosecurity Magazine

Spammers using a 'spray & pray' approach to post comments on WordPress powered blogs, forums, says Imperva. WordPress-powered websites are being targeted in a comment spam campaign designed to get users to click on links to sites offering betting services on the 2018 FIFA World Cup games. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Dark Reading

In August 2016, the Australian government released an “anonymised” data set comprising the medical billing records, including every prescription and surgery, of 2.9 million people. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Guardian

Researchers from Masaryk University in the Czech Republic and Maryland Cybersecurity Center (MCC) monitored suspicious organizations and identified four that sold Microsoft Authenticode certificates to anonymous buyers. The same research team also collected a trove of Windows-targeted malware carrying valid digital signatures. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Infosecurity Magazine

The Ukrainian Secret Service (SBU) said today it stopped a cyber-attack with the VPNFilter malware on a chlorine distillation plant in the village of Aulska, in the Dnipropetrovsk region. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer

Hackers have breached the website of VSDC, a popular company that provides free audio and video conversion and editing software. Three different incidents have been recorded during which hackers changed the download links on the VSDC website with links that initiated downloads from servers operated by the attackers. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer

The plague that is Spectre continues to evolve and adapt, showing up in two new variants this week dubbed Spectre 1.1 and Spectre 1.2 that follow the original Spectre's playbook while expanding on the ways they can do damage. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Dark Reading

Crypto scammers looking to profit off of the rescue of 12 young soccer players and their coach from a Thai cave posed as Elon Musk in order to steal Bitcoin from unsuspecting users. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: SC Magazine

The Ticketmaster UK ‘breach’ is far more extensive than at first thought — part of a single operation by a threat group affecting over 800 e-commerce sites around the globe, according to new intelligence. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Infosecurity Magazine