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  • Reading Time: ~ 2 min. BEC Scam Takes Millions from Nikkei America Officials for Nikkei are working to identify the perpetrators of a recent business email compromise (BEC) scam that took roughly $ 29 million from the company’s American subsidiary. The illicit transfer took place sometime during the end of September and, though they did […]

  • Reading Time: ~ 2 min. Android Apps Riddled with Adware Another 85 photo and gaming apps have been removed from the Google Play store after they were discovered to have been distributing adware to the roughly 8 million users who had downloaded the fake apps. The adware itself is rather tricky: by sitting dormant on […]

  • Reading Time: ~ 2 min. Cybercriminals use Botnets to Launch Attacks on Social Media According to a new report, more than half of all login attempts on social media sites are fraudulent, and at least 1 in 4 new account creation attempts are also fraudulent. With the sheer number of potential victims these types of […]

  • Top stories from Hacker News! Read by Mattan Griffel and Chris Castiglione COIN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6733615 GitHub https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6752800 Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6733518 Work Can Wait https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6754833 Google wins book-scanning case: judge finds “fair use,” cites many benefits https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6732983 We Got Rejected by Y Combinator https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6757491 37signals valuation tops 0 billion after bold VC investment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6744742

  • A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Hi folk, let me inform you that I suspended the newsletter service, anyway I’ll continue to provide you a list of published posts every week through the blog. Once again thank you! 80 defendants charged with participating in […]