Cyber Security News & Trends – 07-13-18

Each week, SonicWall collects the cyber security industry’s most compelling, trending and important interviews, media and news stories — just for you.

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SonicWall Spotlight

As Malware, Ransomware Surge in 2018, SonicWall Raises Alarm on Encrypted Threats and Chip-Based Attacks

• SonicWall publishes a mid-year update of 2018 SonicWall Cyber Threat Report, finds more than 5.99 billion total malware attacks, up 102 percent, in the first six months of 2018.

Ghostbusters 2: how to deal with Spectre, the sequel – SC Magazine (UK)

• Lawrence Pingree, SonicWall’s VP of Product Management discusses the possibilities of future exploits built on the Spectre vulnerability

Big Enterprise or Small Business, It Doesn’t Matter: Hackers Are Coming for You, Right Now – Joseph Steinberg

• Quotes from a 2017 interview between Bill Conner and Joe Steinberg are resurfaced to explain that about half of all cyber-attacks are on small businesses.

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Cyber Security News

Now Pushing Malware: NPM package dev logins slurped by hacked tool popular with coders – The Register

• An unfortunate chain reaction was averted today after miscreants tampered with a widely used JavaScript programming tool to steal other developers' NPM login tokens.

Hackers are selling backdoors into PCs for just $10 – ZDNet

• Cyber criminals are offering remote access to IT systems for just $10 via a dark web hacking store -- potentially enabling attackers to steal information, disrupt systems, deploy ransomware and more.

Senators press federal election officials on state cybersecurity – The Hill

• Senators on Wednesday pressed top officials from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) about their efforts to boost state cybersecurity election systems, with a focus on whether each state should have a mechanism in place to audit their results.

Cryptocurrency service Bancor robbed of billions; MyEtherWallet users targeted via malicious VPN Chrome extension – SC Magazine

• Cryptocurrency token conversion service Bancor disclosed yesterday that hackers stole millions in funds from one of its online wallets, while Etherium crypto wallet service MyEtherWallet warned that hackers may have compromised anyone who accessed its service while using the free VPN service Hola and its Chrome extension.

Breach department: Unauthorized party accesses Macys.com and Bloomingdales.com customer accounts – SC Magazine

• For nearly two months, an unauthorized party reportedly used stolen usernames and passwords to log into the online accounts of certain Macys.com and Bloomingdales.com customers.

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In Case You Missed It

• SonicWall Leans into Mid-Tier Enterprise Market for Next Phase of Company Growth, Leadership with Expansion of Disruptive Cloud-based Platform – Press Release
• SonicWall Wins 7 New Awards, Bringing 2018 Total to Over 30 – SonicWall Staff
• Inside the Cloud Sandbox: How Capture Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) Works – Brook Chelmo
• Capture Client Endpoint Protection: What’s New in Version 1.5 – Brook Chelmo
• Shadow IT, Ensure Safe Adoption of SaaS Applications – Ganesh Umapathy
• Capture Security Center: Knowledge, Visibility & Control of Your Cyber Security Ecosystem – Ken Dang