Over the last year, criminals in Russia found a way to steal 252 million Rubles ($3.8 million) from five unnamed banks, using a novel technique called a “reverse ATM attack”, accordingRead More →
Rohit Jawa fools officer into revealing personal details. Police officers investigating an eBay scammer must have been very surprised when the criminal, in a bold act of courage, stole their identitiesRead More →
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc said payment systems at 54 of its hotels in North America had been infected with a malware designed to collect payment card data. ARead More →
Reformed hacker says that US government websites especially FBI and Home Office are easiest to hack. You would be surprised to know that one of the easiest sites to hackRead More →
Avast confirms the recent Vizio Smart TV snooping scandal Security researchers at Avast have hacked a Vizio smart TV and gained access to the WiFi network the device connects to,Read More →
FEDERAL AUTHORITIES HAVE indicted four men on charges that they hacked into multiple financial institutions and operated a stock-pumping scheme and online gambling operations that netted them more than 100Read More →
Soccer, or rather football aficionados in the UK may have had their computers infected whilst browsing the Premier League’s official fantasy website fantasy.premierleague.com. A malicious advert displayed on the sportsRead More →
Recently, while researching attacks on targets in Thailand, Unit 42 discovered a tool that initially appeared to be a variant of the well-known PlugX RAT based on similar observed behaviorRead More →
A ransomware infected several PC at the UK Parliament, for the first time a threat hit the internal computer network, the Parliamentary Digital Service. Ransomware is once again in theRead More →
Coding mistakes in a malicious program that encrypts data mean anyone hit by the Power Worm virus will not be able to recover files, say security experts. Usually viruses knownRead More →
In April 2014 the cybersecurity world was rocked by the discovery of Heartbleed, the name given to a vulnerability found in one of the systems we use to securely communicateRead More →
Over the weekend, a reader (@flanvel) directed Salted Hashto a post on a Dark Web marketplace selling a number of questionable, if not outright illegal goods. The post in questionRead More →
CYBERTHIEVES hacked into the parliament’s secure computer network and used sensitive files to hold an MP to ransom, it has been revealed. Cybercrooks hacked into parliament’s secure network and compromiseRead More →
Report: Germany, France, Japan contract hopefuls spotted multiple attacks. Hacking attempts are forcing bidders in Germany, France, and Japan for Australia’s A$50 billion submarine contract to rely on hand-delivery forRead More →
Daesh’s cyber squad hacks over 54,000 Twitter accounts In the current era, there is no such thing that we have come across that can be termed unhackable. This makes thingsRead More →
A variant of the Power Worm ransomware is infecting computers, encrypting their data files, and throwing away the encryption key, all because of an error in the malware’s programming. TheRead More →
“Hi, I’m from IT” call yielded access to customer records, lulz; Cox fined $596k. What’s the cost of giving up customers’ information because of weak information security practices? For CoxRead More →
Software maker issued security patch hours after reports surfaced it was breached. Developers of the vBulletin software package for website forums released a security patch Monday night, just hours afterRead More →
Vodafone is the second British telecommunications company in two weeks to be on the receiving end of a serious hack. Yet another UK telecom company has fallen victim to hackers.Read More →
A group of hackers who claimed responsibility for the hacking of numerous government and even Chinese websites since 2012 has found a new target. The Twitter account of Maine MendozaRead More →
