Daily Threat Brief

In The News Today:

Todays Thursday and the hacking continues...forget Ad-blockers on your computer time to start covering your license plates when you goto places you don't want your data mined from says eff.org and slack comes to Linux and POS RAM Scrapping malware owns Jason's Del...is all in your daily Threat Brief.

High:

New botnet infects cryptocurrency mining computers, replaces wallet address

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/01/in-the-wild-malware-preys-on-computers-dedicated-to-mining-cryptocurrency/

How License Plate Covers Would Protect Vulnerable Communities

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/01/how-license-plate-covers-would-protect-vulnerable-communities

Med:

Jason's Deli data breach impacts up to 2 million customers

http://www.wlky.com/article/jasons-deli-data-breach-impacts-up-to-2-million-customers/15384812

Google Awards Record $112,500 Bounty for Android Exploit Chain

https://threatpost.com/google-awards-record-112500-bounty-for-android-exploit-chain/129519/

Low:

Slack comes to Linux as a snap

https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/18/slack-comes-to-linux-as-a-snap/

Anomali raises $40 million to expand its threat intelligence platform

https://www.cyberscoop.com/anomali-series-d-40-million/