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Developers of the Android banking malware Marcher are now disguising the trojan as an Adobe Flash Player update, the cloud security company Zscaler has reported in a Thursday blog post.   View Full story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: SC Magazine

Blockchain allows individuals, independent of each other, to rely on the same shared, secure and auditable source of information for managing identity. View Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: Information Age

Another major exploit kit (EK) looks like it's heading for the EK graveyard as activity from the RIG EK has fallen to less than 25% of what the exploit kit used to handle three months ago, in March 2017. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer

Fifty-five speed and red-light cameras in the Australia's state of Victoria were infected with the WannaCry ransomware.The incident took place last week and was brought to light by a local radio station. According to current information, the infection took place during maintenance operations, as a human operator connected an infected USB to the devices, which were apparently running on a Windows OS.   View Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer

The Locky ransomware is back, spreading via a massive wave of spam emails distributed by the Necurs botnet, but the campaign appears to be a half-baked effort because the ransomware is not able to encrypt files on modern Windows OS versions, locking files only on old Windows XP & Vista machines.   View Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer

The dwell time for hackers inside victim networks fell by nearly half over the past year, although the time from intrusion to containment of such threats remained virtually the same, according to Trustwave.   View Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: Info Security Magazine

The AdGholas malvertising threat group conducted a new campaign in May and June 2017 using the Astrum exploit kit to infect victims with Mole ransomware – an unusual change-up for these adversaries, who historically have favored banking trojans, according to researchers from Trend Micro and Proofpoint. View Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: SC Magazine

The Queen's Speech outlined a number of technology-centred initiatives aimed at bolstering the economy, driving innovation, defending online safety and meeting environmental targets.   View Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: Information Age

Skype has crashed for millions of people around the world, following recent updates by Microsoft. The problems began yesterday, but have continued through to today, with users in Europe appearing to be the worst affected. A group of cyber criminals has claimed that they are behind the attack, but this is yet to be confirmed by Microsoft. Microsoft, who owns Skype, has confirmed the issue on Twitter, referring to the outage as a 'global incident.'...

The number of different families of ransomware is ever-growing and has risen to almost 10 million known samples of the file-encrypting malware - while the most stealthy forms of malicious software have also boomed. That figure is up from six million ransomware samples just one year ago, representing a 59 percent increase, say figures in the latest McAfee Labs Quarterly Threats Report. One of the most significant reasons the ransomware attacks have risen so much...