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Cato Networks, provider of the global SD-WAN as a service Cato Cloud, released the findings of its enterprise WAN market study. The report, “State of WAN 2018: Too Complex to Ignore,” predicts SD-WAN will grow 200% year-over-year. At the same time, the additional abstraction layer that is SD-WAN and its impact on the network security architecture significantly increases WAN complexity. Simplification for connectivity, security, and the cloud will be major themes for WAN transformation in...

A self-proclaimed “mischievous boy” who calls himself “ZENIS” unleashed ransomware attacks that encrypt the files and then purposely deleted the backups. Discovered last week by MalwareHunterTeam, Zenis uses a customized encryption method that warns recipients to pay up or risk losing forever their infected files. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: SC Magazine

Researchers have discovered multiple severe vulnerabilities in ManageEngine’s line of tools for internal IT support teams, which are used by over half of Fortune 500 companies. The first flaw affects EventLog Analyzer 11.8 and Log360 5.3, and could be exploited to achieve remote code execution with the same privileges as the user that started the application, by uploading a web shell to be written to the web root. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Help Net...

KASPERSKY HAS ANNOYED the US once again by revealing a terrorism-targeted spying operation with the reveal of the state-sponsored Slingshot spyware. At least that's according to Cyberscoop, which claims to have learned that Slingshot is an active, US-led cyber espionage operation designed for counterterrorism. The reveal of Slingshot means Kaspersky has basically burned the US operation, which was found to have cropped up in conflict zones and areas of operation for ISIS including Afghanistan, Iran,...

KASPERSKY HAS ANNOYED the US once again by revealing a terrorism-targeted spying operation with the reveal of the state-sponsored Slingshot spyware. At least that's according to Cyberscoop, which claims to have learned that Slingshot is an active, US-led cyber espionage operation designed for counterterrorism. The reveal of Slingshot means Kaspersky has basically burned the US operation, which was found to have cropped up in conflict zones and areas of operation for ISIS including Afghanistan, Iran,...

A British surgeon whose instructions over the internet helped to guide operations in war-torn Aleppo fears his PC was hacked in order to target a makeshift hospital that was subsequently bombed. Consultant David Nott gave remote instructions via Skype and WhatsApp that helped doctors in Syria carry out operations. Footage of the process at work was broadcast on the BBC's Newsnight in September 2016. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register

Reddit has banned /r/DarkNetMarkets, the site's biggest community dedicated to discussions related to Dark Web marketplaces —sites dedicated to selling illegal products varying from weapons, drugs, malware, data breaches, DDoS services, fraud services, and more. The community —called a subreddit on the site— had nearly 180,000 subscribed users at the time of the ban, two hours before this article's publication. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer

Greens Senator Jordon Steele-John on Wednesday called on both sides of Australian politics to be more transparent about their use of data and the ties political parties have to data analytics firms. Steele-John's requests were made after it was revealed Cambridge Analytica had used the information of 50 million Facebook users to help Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: ZDNet

The most recent version of the TrickBot banking trojan now includes a screenlocker component, suggesting the malware's operators might soon start holding victims for ransom if infected targets don't appear to be e-banking users. The good news is that the screenlocker mechanism is not fully functional just yet, and appears to still be under development. Nonetheless, security researchers have spotted the new module dropped on victims' computers, suggesting development is advanced enough to have reached...

A US government commission has asked the public for its thoughts on possible changes to the military's selective service rules to allow the conscription of technical talent, including those with computer-oriented skills, regardless of sex or age. The National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service, in accordance with the Congress in the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act, has been directed to consider how to encourage more people to participate in military, national and public...