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Research by investment and tax group Smith and Williamson and the British Chambers of Commerce has found that cyber attacks now account for half of all UK crime. Read Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: East Midlands Business Link

Bithumb, one of the largest Bitcoin and Ether exchange platforms, has been hacked resulting in a loss of billions of South Korean Won with a number of user accounts compromised. Information such as users’ phone numbers, email addresses, etc. have been leaked as such, reports Bravenewcoin. Read Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: HackRead

There's a new wrinkle to the NotPetya story: authorities in the Ukraine have seized equipment from M.E.Docs, the online accounting firm implicated in spreading the malware. Read Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register

If you use an app called eVestigator, billed as checking Android phones for compromise, delete it. That's the word from someone signing their name as MaXe from InterN0T, who looked at what the Android app does. The app claimed to test Android phones to see if they've been compromised, but MaXe found it ran a connect() scan across every available TCP port – all 65,535 of them – and tell the user there are “87,375...

A massive malvertising network has been infecting as many as one million computers per day with a variety of geo-focused banking trojans. Named AdGholas, researchers say that it has been operating since 2015, infecting thousands of victims every day using a sophisticated combination of techniques that include filtering and steganography. It was receiving high-quality traffic from a variety of high rank referrers, from more than twenty different AdAgency/AdExchange platforms. The result was that AdGholas was clocking...

The personal details of a small number of Google staffers have been exposed, according to a notification letter Google has started sending to affected employees. The breach didn't take place because of Google's lack of security measures, but occurred off-site, via a travel and hotel reservations platform. Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT), one of the companies Google uses to make hotel arrangements for its employees for work-related travels, has informed the tech giant of the breach. View Full...

Hackers are selling the Medicare card numbers of Australians on the ‘dark web’, which could be used to steal private health records. The Federal Government has confirmed it’s urgently investigating the security breach and has referred the matter to the Australian Federal Police. A journalist from The Guardian revealed he was able to purchase his own Medicare card details from a vendor on the dark web for just $30, from a device called ‘the Medicare machine’. Human...

The AA has been criticised over the way it has handled a data breach involving 13 gigabytes of data. The huge cache was viewable online for a few days in April, but the motoring organisation said that it contained no "sensitive" information. However, a security researcher who analysed the leak said he found details like email addresses, names and parts of payment card numbers. He said said it was a "very serious incident" the AA...

Mark Zuckerberg’s long-term plan for the Aquila drone is to have it and others provide internet access to 4bn people around the world who are in the dark View Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Guardian

BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, is leading a new effort to improve cybersecurity within the NHS in a bid to head off another WannaCry-style incident.   View Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: Info Security Magazine