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After a collaborative investigation found Chinese authorities were planting malware on the phones of travellers, Symantec, Malwarebytes and other cybersecurity firms have updated their products. Source: Anti-Virus Companies Now Flag Malware China Installs on Tourists’ Phones

The malware downloads a tourist’s text messages, calendar entries, and phone logs, as well as scans the device for over 70,000 different files. Source: China Is Forcing Tourists to Install Text-Stealing Malware at its Border

A Cloudflare outage is knocking out a bunch of internet websites and services around the globe, causing service disruptions. Source: Major websites and services across the internet went down because of a hosting-platform outage

In shutting down its ebook store, Microsoft once again shows how in the modern era, you no longer actually own the things you buy. Source: Microsoft Ebooks Will Stop Working Because It’s Shutting Down a DRM Server

We recently wrote about two U.S. firms that promised high-tech ransomware solutions but instead paid the cyber-attacker. A U.K. company appears to do the same. Source: Sting Catches Another Ransomware Firm — Red Mosquito — Negotiating With “Hackers” — ProPublica