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• GandCrab cousin Sodinokibi made a fortune for ransomware pushers
  Security researchers have tracked the bitcoin payments made by victims of the Sodinokibi ransomware threat and concluded that some of the criminals distributing the program earned millions of dollars from the scheme. Sodinokibi, also known as REvil, is a ransomware program that first appeared in....
• Majority of Simjacker Attacks Aimed at Mobile Phones in Mexico
  Researchers believe hundreds of millions of SIM cards may be vulnerable to Simjacker attacks after determining that the targeted technology, despite being very old, is still used by at least 61 mobile operators across 29 countries.
• Outcomex scoops Cisco security reseller deal with NAB
  The bank today announced that it will offer 400,000 of its SMB customers products from the Cisco Umbrella suite at a “special preferential price”. Cisco Umbrella is a suite of enterprise-grade cloud security products, including web gateway, firewall, DNS-layer security, and interactive threat intelligence.
• Imperva's Breach Post-Mortem: API Key Left Exposed
  Imperva CEO Chris Hylen at the NASDAQ exchange on Nov. 16, 2018. (Source: NASDAQ) Cybersecurity vendor Imperva's breach post-mortem should serve as a warning to all those using cloud services: One mistake can turn into a calamity. See Also: Webinar | Passwords: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? Be Careful What You Wish For.
• Apple Under Fire Over Sending Some Users Browsing Data to China’s Tencent
  Category: hacking news Do you know Apple is sending iOS web browsing data of some of its users to Chinese Internet company Tencent? I am sure many of you are not aware of this, neither was I, and believe me, none of us could expect this from a tech company that promotes itself as a […]
• Cyber security firm Sophos latest British company snapped up by foreign buyers - Yahoo Finance UK
  Shares in cyber security group Sophos have jumped 37% as investors react to a 3.82 billion dollar (£3 billion) takeover bid by a US private equity group. The approach by Thoma Bravo has been accepted by the board and the deal will now go to shareholders for final approval.
• China Daily urges Morrison to 'build consensus' following Dutton remarks
  Beijing: An official Chinese state newspaper has urged Prime Minister Scott Morrison to "build more consensus" on China policy in his government ranks if he wants to improve ties with China. The China Daily in an editorial on Monday wrote approvingly of Morrison, who had played down "anti-China....
• Hobbyists can plant hidden spy chips on motherboards for $200
  In context: Isaiah Mayersen Almost a year to the day after Bloomberg reported that the US government, Apple, Amazon, and others had their servers compromised by China, a security researcher has shown a similar hack can be pulled off with $190 worth of tools and a $2 chip.
• Organizations Fail to Implement Cloud Security Basics – And it Bites Them
  Organizations Fail to Implement Cloud Security Basics – And it Bites Them. While the early promises in the move to cloud computing promised to simplify cloud management and security, and in many ways these promises have been kept. However, in other ways, cloud environments have increased security complexity.
• US, China Reach Partial Trade Deal; Avoid Tariff Increase
  By Nike Ching. VOA U.S. President Donald Trump announced Friday that Washington and Beijing had reached a substantial phase-one trade deal, covering agricultural purchases, currency and some aspects of intellectual property protections. China would increase significant purchases of U.S.