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Trade of online gaming currencies fuels cybercrime

12

Oct

2016

Though the majority of gaming companies prohibit the real-money trading of online gaming currencies, the practice is still widespread, and according to Trend Micro researchers, the money that cyber-criminals earn through it is used to mount DoS attacks, spam campaigns, perpetrate identity theft and financial fraud against a variety of business and organizations, and so […]

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Hackers sell tool to spread malware through torrent files

22

Sep

2016

Be careful with what you torrent. A new tool on the black market is helping hackers distribute malware through torrent files in exchange for a fee. On Tuesday, security researchers at InfoArmor said they discovered the so-called “RAUM” tool in underground forums. It leverages torrenting — a popular file-sharing method associated with piracy — to […]

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Microsoft Patches Zero Day Flaw Used In Two Massive Malvertising Campaigns

15

Sep

2016

Microsoft has patched a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer that at least two threat actor groups have used for some time to serve malicious advertisements to between 1 million and 5 million users daily. Microsoft was first notified about the so-called information disclosure bug in September 2015, security vendor Proofpoint said in an alert this […]

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