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Criminal “products” from the underworld marketplace are part of a sophisticated and highly profitable global industry.

Time is nearly up. The day of reckoning when it comes to data protection is nearly upon us, with May 25th 2018 marked in bold in every business calendar or diary. The General Data Protection Regulation, or its more popular moniker GDPR, has cast an omnipresent shadow over global business for the last year, with a myriad of surveys and research repeatedly warning against non-compliance – normally with the much used adjective of ‘unprepared’.

The number of unique mobile malware samples increased sharply in 2017 compared to a year ago, according to Trend Micro.

Employing sophisticated scams involving social engineering, email phishing, and the harvesting of employee passwords, attackers have pilfered millions of dollars from some of the world largest corporations—all while bypassing traditional hacking safeguards by simply avoiding the use malware.

An Android trojan that started out as an open-source project has been updated to allow hackers to gain access to virtually all data on infected devices. The new variant of AndroRAT is disguised as an app called 'TrashCleaner' and researchers at Trend Micro say it's distributed via a malicious URL -- indicating that this threat comes from third-party download sites or phishing attacks.