Catalan police have discovered online attempts by ISIS to actively recruit women.

Symantec has picked over recent WikiLeaks dumps and concludes that tools Vault 7 revealed were used in the Longhorn campaigns—some forty incursions into networks of sixteen countries.

The latest ShadowBrokers material, seen through the related prisms of cui bono or kto kogo, seems obviously designed to advance Russian interests in Syria, but many continue to regard the Brokers as more mysterious than Muscovite. The US and UK take a joint hardline toward Russia over Syria, to the discomfiture of some in Europe and of those who see Mr. Putin as "insecure," better dealt with therapeutically. 

Germany, having formed an independent military cyber force, is said to reserve to itself a right of first strike in cyberspace.

Emmanuel Macron, candidate for the Presidency of France under the banner of the progressive, third-way movement En Marche!, makes some very tough promises to undermine widespread encryption in his proposed EU-wide struggle against terrorism. 

FireEye says the Chinese group APT10 is actively hacking Indian companies for intellectual property. 

The Wall Street Journal reports that an attack last July on the Union Bank of India closely resembled the phishing that compromised the Bangladesh Bank. 

The zero-day vulnerability in Word being exploited in the wild is now being used to distribute the Dridex banking Trojan. (Many hope Microsoft will patch the flaw later today, but Redmond is still tight-lipped.)

Third-party sellers on Amazon are being hit with credential theft that exploits reused passwords.