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The IP address for a command and control (C&C) server employed by Carbanak, an advanced piece of malware used in attacks targeting financial institutions directly, now resolves to a domain that appears to be owned by the Russian Security Service (FSB), researchers found.

Add CareFirst - the Maryland and Washington, D.C. BlueCross BlueShield - to the expanding list of insurers that have suffered data breaches. Over 1.1 million customer records have been acknowledged to have been stolen in a breach announced this week.

An IDC report indicates the market for the Internet of Things will only become more robust over the next few years. An increased use in retail digital signage will help the IoT market grow 19 percent in 2015.

On Thursday, Taryn Naidu, the CEO of domain registrar eNom, sent a letter to customers disclosing a "very sophisticated attack" that targeted the DNS settings on four domains.
The United States remained the largest host and target for cyber-attacks in the first three months of the year, a quarter which saw hackers take up new tools, tactics and procedures – and return to some old ways – in order to improve success rates...

Trend Micro is a company with a simple, yet ambitious goal, to protect their users from cybercriminal activity...
Trend Micro TrendLabs released a new report today that summed up the first three months worth of malicious activity as a function of utility rather than ingenuity...
In April, the New York State Department of Financial Services issued a report about significant third-party and vendor management risks that numerous banks throughout the state were failing to address.
While some security experts warn that the VENOM vulnerability disclosed yesterday is potentially worse than Heartbleed, others dismiss those comparisons and say the media coverage is overblown.
CrowdStrike CSO Shawn Henry and Trend Micro Chief Cyber Security Officer Tom Kellermann discuss the deadline for the NSA Dragnet deal wtih Emily Change on "Bloomberg West."
Amid the turmoil in Ukraine, Romania has emerged as an unlikely cybersecurity ally for the international community.

In an era when businesses are scrambling to defend against sophisticated advanced persistent threats, old school anti-virus may seem like a relic. But traditional anti-virus companies are changing with the times, delivering defense-in-depth for a BYOD world.

A suspected malicious advertising attack turned out to be a much deeper compromise of an online advertising company, according to Trend Micro.
A rise in cyber attacks against doctors and hospitals is costing the U.S. health-care system $6 billion a year as organized criminals who once targeted retailers and financial firms increasingly go after medical records, security researchers say.

Spear phishing and its evolutions like the watering hole attack represent one of the most insidious attack techniques adopted by the majority of threat actors in cyberspace.
Security researchers have shed new light on seven-year-old point-of-sale (POS) malware still being used today, most recently to attack casinos and resort hotels...
Security firms report a sharp rise in the quantity of attacks that use macro code - designed to automate tasks - to trigger malware downloads, often for the purpose of stealing people's online banking credentials.

Last year's breach of unclassified White House computer systems was far more intrusive than initially thought and included the theft of some presidential correspondence, The New York Times reported Friday.
Macro malware isn't dead yet, if a new campaign targeting banks and financial institution is any indication.

Four days after Defense Secretary Ash Carter launched the Pentagon’snew cyber strategy, experts and officials offered a grim picture of the global threat. The threat is metastasizing in ways that will require new kinds of defenses — even while many US companies and government agencies lag on basic cybersecurity measures.
Trend Micro’s Dave Abramowitz discusses the White House hack attack with Bloomberg’s Alix Steel on “Street Smart.”
Sextortion—enticing victims to send naked or sexually suggestive pictures of themselves, which are then used to blackmail them for money or sexual favors—is not a new digital phenomenon. But the methods of accomplishing it are evolving. A new Android app has been developed expressly for use by sextortionist-minded hackers.

Times are a changing. Once a upon a time your security was all about a decent Firewall and some Anti-Virus and you were good to go. Yeah, not so much any more. Signature based Anti-Virus, as a tool to protect you from infection, is pretty much useless in this day and age. Why, because hackers and the techniques they use to infect you have evolved.

Failing to properly secure your website can seriously damage your brand. Don't let your site visitors get cyber-mugged.
The threat landscape is constantly changing, and so is the information deemed valuable to hackers. While 2014 was the so-called year of the breach, when consumer card data was the hottest commodity, 2015 has been marked by more attacks aimed at compromising personally identifiable information and corporate intellectual property.