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The Democratic National Committee announced on Thursday the hiring of former Yahoo head of information security Bob Lord to serve as chief security officer in an effort to beef up its cyber security. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Business Insider

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) says it has stopped thousands of taxpayers from receiving scam text messages in the past year, but security experts warn the public is still at risk. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: International Business Times

In 2014, Dutch intelligence agency AIVD reportedly managed to locate the hub of the Kremlin-linked hacker group Cozy Bear, also known as APT29. AIVD reportedly gained access to the state-sponsored hacker group's networks and spied on Cozy Bear's hacking activities in a cyberespionage campaign that is believed to have lasted between one and two and a half years. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: International Business Times

A new cryptocurrency mining campaign has infected over 15 million users across the globe. The new campaign, which involves hackers leveraging the XMRig Monero miner, has hit South America, Southeast Asia and northern Africa the hardest. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: International Business Times

For folks in a mad rush to finally start cashing in on cryptocurrencies, beware SpriteCoin! The only people making money from SpriteCoin are the cyberthugs using ransomware to lock up the PCs of folks who fell for the promise that it was “sure to be a profitable coin.” View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: CSO

Spectre and Meltdown are major design flaws in modern CPUs. While they're present in almost all recent processors, because Intel chips are so widely used, Intel is taking most of the heat for these bugs. Nowhere has the criticism been hotter than on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML). View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: ZDNet

Although the strength and number of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in Australia dropped precipitously during 2017, one expert warns that the change in attack patterns actually reflects an intentional move by threat actors seeking to do as much damage as possible in ever-smaller windows of opportunity. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: CSO

A data breach at Bell Canada appears to have compromised customer names and email addresses, with the RCMP launching an investigation into the incident, according to reports. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Infosecurity Magazine

The hacker behind the Satori botnet, also known as Mirai Okiru, is involved in the creation of a new Mirai variant called Masuta, which means "master" in Japanese. The creator of Satori, who goes by the name Nexus Zeta, has also developed a variant of the Masuta botnet called PureMasuta. This version is considered to be unique because it weaponises a router exploit, allowing the botnet to recruit more vulnerable IoT devices and expand. View...

The hacker behind the Satori botnet, also known as Mirai Okiru, is involved in the creation of a new Mirai variant called Masuta, which means "master" in Japanese. The creator of Satori, who goes by the name Nexus Zeta, has also developed a variant of the Masuta botnet called PureMasuta. This version is considered to be unique because it weaponises a router exploit, allowing the botnet to recruit more vulnerable IoT devices and expand. View...