Cybercrooks are using bots to create synthetic digital identities, to carry out various types of fraud. Go to Source

Overall Adobe’s September security update addressed vulnerabilities in Flash Player and Application Manager. Go to Source

A large U.S. manufacturing company is the latest organization to be targeted with the LokiBot trojan – although this most recent campaign harbored some bizarre red flags. Go to Source

Porn-recording feature will likely be used for extortion. Go to Source

Cyberespionage attackers have ditched their PowerShell backdoor in favor of the Windows BITS ‘notification’ feature. Go to Source

Attackers can drop malware, add the device to a botnet or send their own audio streams to compromised devices. Go to Source

Wikipedia and World of Warcraft Classic users reported global outages over the weekend in targeted – and connected – DDoS attacks. Go to Source

A critical vulnerability found in Exim servers could enable a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges. Go to Source

A survey by Pew Research Center finds that Americans support use of facial recognition by law enforcement , but not by tech or advertising companies. Go to Source

Large portions of APT3’s remote code-execution package were likely reverse-engineered from prior attack artifacts. Go to Source