Sean Gallagher is Principal Threat Researcher, Sophos X-Ops. Prior to joining Sophos, he was an information security and technology journalist for over 30 years, including 10 as information security and national security editor for Ars Technica.
Cookie and credential stealing malware-as-a-service delivered by dropper-as-a-service now packs a "clipper" to steal crypto-transactions, and can drop other malware.
As more of the Internet uses Transport Layer Security, analysis of detection telemetry shows the volume of TLS encrypted communications by malware has doubled in a year.