Daily Intelligence 2.23.2016

Trends

Weekly Phishing Report – February 22, 2016
https://blog.cyveillance.com/weekly-phishing-report-february-22-2016/

2016 IBM X-Force Report: Breaches Without Borders and Tales From the
Cybercrime Underground
https://securityintelligence.com/2015-ibm-x-force-report-breaches-without-borders-and-tales-from-the-cybercrime-underground/

Attacks

Belgian government plagued by hackers
http://www.politico.eu/article/belgium-government-agencies-plagued-hackers-downsec-ddos-attacks-cyber-crime/

Quincy University network temporarily down due to DDoS Attack
http://khqa.com/news/local/quincy-university-network-temporarily-down-due-to-ddos-attack

NSA Data Center receives 300,000 hacking attempts / day
http://thehackernews.com/2016/02/nsa-utah-data-center.html
&
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/23/utah_govt_systems_copping_300_million_security_incidents_a_day/

IRS WARNS TAX-RELATED PHISHING, MALWARE SURGING
http://threatpost.com/irs-warns-tax-related-phishing-malware-surging/116395/

Malware

Banking Trojans Expand Their Reach
http://www.databreachtoday.com/banking-trojans-expand-their-reach-a-8886

7 Ways Banking Botnets Are Keeping With The Times
http://www.darkreading.com/mobile/7-ways-banking-botnets-are-keeping-with-the-times/d/d-id/1324396

Cybercriminals use Zika outbreak to spread malware
http://www.scmagazine.com/spam-posing-as-zika-prevention-info-used-to-spread-malware/article/478398/

Dangerous Android banking bot leak signals new malware wave
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/23/dangerous_android_banking_bot_leak_signals_new_malware_wave/

iOS app that smuggled pirated software into China is booted out of Apple’s walled garden
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/22/risky_apple_app_banhammer/

Vulnerabilities

JSF*** eBay XSS Bug Exploited in the Wild, Despite the Company’s Fix
http://news.softpedia.com/news/jsf-ebay-xss-bug-exploited-in-the-wild-despite-the-company-s-fix-500651.shtml

Dan Kaminsky is an expert on DNS security – and he’s saying: Patch right God damn now
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/20/glibc_kaminsky_cve_2015_7547/

General

BAE Systems faces cyberattacks by hackers more than 100 times a year
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/bae-systems-faces-cyberattacks-by-hackers-more-100-times-year-1545382

Hackers aren’t so interested in your credit card data these days. That’s bad news
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/23/breach_trends_gemalto/

GeoPol

(US) Service Chiefs Reject Proposal to Develop New Military Cyber Force
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/02/22/service-chiefs-reject-proposal-develop-new-military-cyber-force.html

(Canada) CIRA calls on law enforcement to protect their departments from DNS-
based cyber-attacks
http://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/cira-calls-on-law-enforcement-to-protect-their-departments-from-dns-based-cyber-attacks-569673321.html