Weekend news review: June 30-July 3

’Lite Zeus’ has fewer tricks, but updated encryption

The new Zeus variant employs AES-128 encryption as opposed to the older RC4 cipher used by other Zeus iterations. <a style="color: #FFFFFF" href="http://www.scmagazine.com/lite-zeus-has-fewer-tricks-but-updated-encryption/article/358593/" target="_blank">Read more</a>

EMOTET banking malware captures data sent over HTTPS connections

Banking malware EMOTET is being delivered in Germany via phishing emails and is starting to show up in the U.S. <a style="color: #FFFFFF" href="http://www.scmagazine.com/emotet-banking-malware-captures-data-sent-over-secured-https-connections/article/358586/" target="_blank">Read more</a>

Houston Astros hacked, trade conversations posted online

The Houston Astros were hacked, and trade conversations between the Texas ball club and several other major league teams were posted online. <a style="color: #FFFFFF" href="http://www.scmagazine.com/houston-astros-hacked-trade-conversations-posted-online/article/358952/" target="_blank">Read more</a>

Microsoft seizes No-IP domains in effort to stop malware infections

The legal action was taken to disrupt the spread of remote access trojans njRAT and njw0rm. <a style="color: #FFFFFF" href="http://www.scmagazine.com/microsoft-seizes-no-ip-domains-in-effort-to-stop-malware-infections/article/358964/" target="_blank">Read more</a>

Brazilian ‘bolware’ gang targeted $3.75B in transactions, RSA finds

RSA has revealed the extent of bolware attacks in the country, which have remained a pervasive issue in the financial sector. <a style="color: #FFFFFF" href="http://www.scmagazine.com/brazilian-bolware-gang-targeted-375b-in-transactions-rsa-finds/article/359083/" target="_blank">Read more</a>

Report: DDoS attacks down, gov’t increasingly a target

In its quarterly "State of the Internet" report Akamai observed 283 DDoS attacks in the first quarter of 2014. <a style="color: #FFFFFF" href="http://www.scmagazine.com/report-ddos-attacks-down-govt-increasingly-a-target/article/359198/" target="_blank">Read more</a>

A U.S. baseball team's trade conversations were posted online and billions of dollars were stolen from Brazil this week. Plus, a new malware strain is showing up in the U.S. For a deeper look at these news bits, click here to visit our news section.