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Malware that can steal your passwords spikes 60%, security firm warns – CNET

Malware that can steal your passwords spikes 60%, security firm warns  CNET

Credit card info and autofill data is up for grabs as browser-based attacks surge.

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Coin Miner Malware Spikes 629% in ‘Telling’ Q1

  1. Coin Miner Malware Spikes 629% in ‘Telling’ Q1  Dark Reading
  2. Cryptojacking malware on the rise, says McAfee report  Financial Times
  3. McAfee reports 629% increase in coin miner malware in Q1 2018  Economic Times
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Akamai sees record-setting spikes in size and volume of DDoS attacks

The size and volume of distributed denial-of-service attacks has exploded in the past year, with a 389 percent increase in average attack bandwidth between the third quarter of 2013 and the third quarter of 2014, according to an Internet security report from Akamai Technologies.

This should make companies consider using cloud-based security services, such as the DDoS filtering technology Akamai provides, said John Summers, vice president of the company’s security business unit.

During the past quarter, Akamai defended against 17 DDoS attacks flooding targets with traffic greater than 100 Gbps, with the largest at 321 Gbps, the cloud services vendor said in its Q3 2014 State of the Internet report, released Thursday.

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Amount of Mobile ‘Madware’ Spikes in Google Play – Infosecurity Magazine

Amount of Mobile 'Madware' Spikes in Google Play
Infosecurity Magazine
We're not in Kansas anymore: The third quarter of 2012 saw a marked increase in Android adware, while new evidence surfaced suggesting that the Zeus-in-the-Mobile (Zitmo) banking trojan is evolving into a botnet. And, Romanian hackers are continuing to 

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