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This Week in Security News: INTERPOL Collaboration Reduces Cryptojacking by 78% and Three Malicious Apps Found on Google Play May be Linked to SideWinder APT Group

Credit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 13:37:59 +0000

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about how Trend Micro’s collaboration with INTERPOL’s Global Complex for Innovation helped reduce cryptojacking by 78% in Southeast Asia. Also, read about three malicious apps in…

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Lawmakers Prod FCC to Act on SIM Swapping

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2020 19:44:55 +0000

Crooks have stolen tens of millions of dollars and other valuable commodities from thousands of consumers via “SIM swapping,” a particularly invasive form of fraud that involves tricking a target’s mobile carrier into transferring someone’s wireless service to a device they control. But the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the entity responsible for overseeing wireless industry practices, has so far remained largely silent on the matter. Now, a cadre of Senate lawmakers is demanding to know what, if anything, the agency might be doing to track and combat SIM swapping.

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Mozilla patches Firefox zero-day as attackers exploit flaw

Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2020 11:46:00 -0800

Just one day after releasing Firefox 72, Mozilla updated the browser with a fix to shut down active attacks, the company acknowledged.

On Wednesday, Mozilla issued Firefox 72.0.1, which included one change: A patch for the vulnerability identified as CVE-2019-17026. “We are aware of targeted attacks in the wild abusing this flaw,” Mozilla said in the short description of the flaw, signaling that criminals were already leveraging the zero-day vulnerability, the term applied because there no time elapses between patching and exploitation.

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As Digital Transformations Continue in 2020, Industrial Edge Plays a Starring Role

Credit to Author: Vincenzo Salmeri| Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2020 17:20:00 +0000

As we turn our sights to a new decade in 2020, it’s a good time to take stock of trends and opportunities facing commercial and industrial businesses and assess what… Read more »

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Is product data the new oil in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry?

Credit to Author: Marilidia Clotteau| Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2020 13:01:21 +0000

We have seen in my previous post, In product data, we trust: the need for a “centralized digital version of the truth” for packaged products, the urgent need for Consumer… Read more »

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