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FireEye has released a report which discusses the tools-of-the-trade used by what it names APT28, the group of Russian state-sponsored hackers who are carrying out hacks to further promote the Russian political agenda. Original source: SC Magazine UK View full story

Google has published a Infrastructure Security Design Overview that explains how it secures the cloud it uses for its own operations and for public cloud services. Original source: The Register View full story

An newly-detected Gmail phishing attack sees criminals hack and then rifle through inboxes to target account owners' contacts with thoroughly convincing fake emails. The new attack uses the file names of sent attachments and applies that name into new attachments that appear to be PDFs but are actually images that, when clicked, send victims to phishing pages. Original source: The Register View full story

Barts Health Trust, the UK's largest NHS trust, was reportedly hit by hackers recently. The trust, which runs The Royal London, St Bartholomew's, Whipps Cross, Mile End and Newham hospitals, has launched an investigation into the cyberattack that forced systems to be briefly taken offline. Original source: International Business Times UK View full story

PNR code + passenger’s last name = full control over passenger bookings. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Graham Cluley

The number of attacks on individual companies' firewalls breached 1,000 per day, on average, in November last year, according to internet service provider (ISP) Beaming. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: CNBC

The latest form of malware holds computers hostage and compromises the privacy of conversations, photos, and sensitive files. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Dark Reading

Victims of this cyberattack can have online activities monitored, data stolen, and their machine hijacked to carry out DDoS attacks. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: ZDNet

A last-minute rule change signed off by the outgoing Obama administration has made it much easier for the NSA to share raw surveillance data with more than a dozen government agencies. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register

Russian state-sponsored hackers attacked Republican state political campaigns, and compromised an old Republican National Committee (RNC) server, but did not penetrate the "current RNC" or the campaign of president-elect Donald Trump, FBI director James Comey told lawmakers at a Senate hearing Tuesday. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Dark Reading