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InfoArmor says the attackers who stole a half-billion Yahoo user accounts were seasoned cybercriminals who later sold the booty to an Eastern European nation-state. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Dark Reading

A 5,000-person Pentagon force created to bolster military computer networks and initiate cyber attacks against terror groups should be ready to carry out its mission by the end of the week, a key step in improving the U.S.’s ability to respond to hacks by overseas adversaries. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bloomberg

A botnet leveraged by the proliferate banking Trojan GozNym has been sinkholed, after infecting over 23,000 victims across the UK, the US, and Europe. Security researchers were able to crack the domain name generation algorithm (DGA), used by the GozNym malware to communicate with the C&C (command and control servers), which in turn allowed the botnet to be brought down. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: International Business Times

NHS Digital set to work closely with National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to boost healthcare sector cyber security capabilities. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Computer Weekly

Senate Democrats on Tuesday asked Yahoo for answers about its handling of the recently revealed data breach that resulted in more than 500 million accounts being compromised by hackers. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Washington Times

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has found more attempts to hack the voter registration systems of states, ahead of national elections. The agency had reportedly found evidence in August that foreign hackers had breached state election databases in Illinois and Arizona, but it appears that there have been other attempts as well, besides frequent scanning activities, which the FBI describes as preludes for possible hacking attempts. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Network World

On August 25, WhatsApp published a blog post detailing its new terms of use. These types of posts rarely generate buzz, but this post detailed end-to-end encryption, exploration of business, and connecting your phone number with Facebook’s systems. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Kaspersky

Malware authors can be quite creative when it comes to avoiding security researchers, but after almost three decades of malware analysis, there still are malware families that manage to surprise infosec professionals once in a while. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Softpedia

The volume, scope and material cost of cybercrime all remain on an upward trend and have reached very high levels. Some EU Member States now report that the recording of cybercrime offences may have surpassed those associated with traditional crimes. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Help Net Security

The record for the biggest DDoS attack ever seen has been broken once again, with an absolute monster of distributed denial of service firepower managing to almost reach the not-so-magic 1Tbps mark. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE; Tech Radar