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Credit card info and autofill data is up for grabs as browser-based attacks surge.

60 percent increase in users hit by password stealers in the last year.

Cyber-espionage campaign is thought to be the work of Ke3chang, an ATP hacking group which has been active for ten years.

TrickBot malware may have stolen as many as 250 million email accounts, including some belonging to governments in the US, UK and Canada. The malware isn’t new. In fact, it’s been circulating since 2016. But according to cybersecurity firm Deep Instinct, it has started harvesting email credentials and contacts. The researchers are calling this new approach TrickBooster, and they say it first hijacks accounts to send malicious spam emails and then deletes the sent messages from both the outbox and trash folders.

Last week the EU’s leaders committed at a summit in Brussels to “a coordinated response to hybrid and cyber-threats” and asked the European commission and member states to “work on measures to enhance the resilience and improve the security culture” of the bloc.

Ministers to be put in fictional scenarios after series of hacking incidents.