Dark Reading Weekly -- April 20, 2017

APT Attack Activity Occurs at 'Low, Consistent Hum,' Rapid7 Finds

Organizations in industries aligned to nation-state interests are main targets of nation-state attack threats, new quarterly threat report shows.

Users Overshare Sensitive Enterprise Data

Survey finds nearly half of the employees trained to protect sensitive data engage in risky security practices.

Cybercriminals Mostly Prefer Skype Messaging

But cybercrime gangs worldwide are increasingly using encrypted peer-to-peer chat platforms for their communications outside online underground forums, new study finds.

Ransomware, Mac Malware Dominate Q1 Threat Landscape

Cerber, somewhat unexpectedly, emerged as the biggest ransomware threat, Malwarebytes found.

Health Savings Account Fraud: The Rapidly Growing Threat

As income tax season comes to a close, financially-motivated cybercriminals are honing new tactics for monetizing medical PII.

Google Won't Trust Symantec and Neither Should You

As bad as this controversy is for Symantec, the real damage will befall the company and individual web sites deemed untrustworthy by a Chrome browser on the basis of a rejected Symantec certificate.

Advanced, Low-Cost Ransomware Tools on the Rise

New offerings cost as little as $175 and come with lots of anti-detection bells and whistles.

95% of Organizations Have Employees Seeking to Bypass Security Controls

Use of TOR, private VPNs on the rise in enterprises, Dtex report shows.

New Breed of DDoS Attack On the Rise

Akamai Networks since October has detected and mitigated at least 50 DDoS attacks using Connectionless LDAP.

So You Want to Be a Security Rock Star?

While the thrill of crafting attention-grabbing stunt hacks may seem like the coolest job on earth, what our industry needs more of are strong defenders who can fix things as well as break them.

APPLICATION SECURITY TWEETFEST TODAY

Join Dark Reading for a 4/20 Twitter Chat on AppSec

The @DarkReading team will host a conversation about application security on 4/20 at 2 p.m. ET.

EDITORS' CHOICE

6 New Security Startups Named to MACH37 Spring Cohort

The companies selected this year include technical talent that draws from Silicon Valley to Hungary and Western Europe.

Security Operations and IT Operations: Finding the Path to Collaboration