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Farsight Security announced enhancements to its flagship, Security Information Exchange data-sharing platform to help security professionals measurably improve the prevention, detection and response of the latest cyberattacks. Newly active domains: The industry's first real-time DNS Intelligence data feed that reports domains as they resume activity on the Internet after a period of inactivity.

A 29-year-old Russian scumbag has admitted masterminding the Cardplanet underworld marketplace as well as a second forum for elite fraudsters. Aleksei Burkov appeared in a US federal district court in Virginia this week to plead guilty [PDF] to access device fraud, and conspiracy to commit computer intrusion, identity theft, wire and access device fraud, and money laundering.

Turkish hackers claimed Friday to have hijacked for more than 90 minutes the official websites of the Greek parliament, the foreign affairs and economy ministries, as well as the country's stock exchange. On their Facebook page, the hackers group, Anka Neferler Tim, justified their action by saying that "Greece is threatening Turkey in the Aegean Sea and in the eastern Mediterranean. And now it's threatening the conference on Libya".

Over the past year and a half, the North Korea-linked Lazarus group has continued attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges but modified its malware and some techniques, Kaspersky reports. Kaspersky now says that following Operation AppleJeus, Lazarus continued to employ a similar modus operandi in attacks on cryptocurrency businesses, and that more macOS malware similar to that from the original Operation AppleJeus case was discovered.

A ransomware attack has held London-based foreign currency exchange firm Travelex hostage since at least New Year's Day, the company confirmed Tuesday after more than a week of vague updates. Travelex is a London-based foreign exchange firm that has over 1,000 stores and 1,000 ATMs in major transit points across 26 countries.

GCHQ and its cyber-defence offshoot NCSC have both denied that they are investigating a cyber-attack on the London Stock Exchange, contrary to reports. "The incident," the newspaper claimed, "Which delayed the market open by more than an hour and a half and was the worst outage in eight years, immediately triggered government cyber alert systems, according to the people familiar with the matter."

GCHQ and its cyber-defence offshoot NCSC have both denied that they are investigating a cyber-attack on the London Stock Exchange, contrary to reports. "The incident," the newspaper claimed, "Which delayed the market open by more than an hour and a half and was the worst outage in eight years, immediately triggered government cyber alert systems, according to the people familiar with the matter."

When is a password breach not a password breach? When is a password warning a hoax? The "Poloniex emails and passwords" announced on Twitter seem to have been from a previous, unknown breach, and the crooks were simply chancing their arm by guessing that at least some of the account names and password might also work on the Poloniex site.

Foreign currency exchange Travelex has taken its UK website and services offline after malware was found on its systems on New Year's Eve. Founded by Lloyd Dorfman, Travelex is headquartered in London and company provides international payments, currency exchange services, and prepaid credit cards for travelers.