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The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Anomali Cyber Watch discuss the following topics: Apache, Botnets, China, Espionage, Java, Russia, USB, and Vulnerabilities. The IOCs related to these stories are attached to Anomali Cyber Watch and can be used to check your logs for potential malicious activity. Figure 1 – IOC Summary Charts. These charts summarize the IOCs attached to this magazine and provide a glimpse of the threats discussed. Trending Cyber…

  In the eighteen months plus since the outbreak of the COVID-19 global pandemic many businesses have had to reinvent themselves and adapt not only how they manage their business, but more importantly how they accept payments. Europe like most of the rest of the world saw a major switch to remote transactions and the world of e-commerce. On top of these significant changes, many organizations have also had to confront the practical and security…

Before you take the fun-looking quiz that popped up in your social media feed, think twice. The person holding the answers may be a hacker.  Where people go, hackers are sure to follow. So it’s no surprise hackers have set up shop on social media. This has been the case for years, yet now social media-based crime is on the rise. In 2019, total reported losses to this type of fraud reached $134 million. But reported losses hit $117 million in just the first six months of 2020, according to the…

Before you take the fun-looking quiz that popped up in your social media feed, think twice. The person holding the answers may be a hacker.  Where people go, hackers are sure to follow. So it’s no surprise hackers have set up shop on social media. This has been the case for years, yet now social media-based crime is on the rise. In 2019, total reported losses to this type of fraud reached $134 million. But reported losses hit $117 million in just the first six months of 2020, according to the…

Dating app Grindr has been fined €6.5m (£5.5m) for selling user data to advertisers without their explicit consent. The fine was issued by the Norwegian Data Protection Authority (DPA) for “grave” infringements of GDPR rules. This was because Grindr shared highly sensitive ‘special category’ data with third parties without users’ explicit consent, which is a requirement under the regulation. This includes GPS location, IP address, advertising ID, age and gender. Additionally, the third parties knew…