Collaborate Disseminate
A federal jury convicted one of the digital criminals responsible for operating the notorious “Scan4You” counter antivirus (CAV) service. On 16 May, the Department of Justice released a press release announcing a Virginia federal jury’… Continue reading Federal Jury Convicts Operator of “Scan4You” Counter Antivirus Service
Cryptojacking attacks affected a quarter of organizations in their cloud environments, found a recent cloud security report. In RedLock’s Cloud Security Trends, researchers with the security firm’s Cloud Security Intelligence (CSI) team dis… Continue reading Cryptojacking Affected a Quarter of Organizations in the Cloud, Finds Report
Signal patched a code injection vulnerability that by some means of exploitation enabled attackers to achieve remote code execution. The security team for the encrypted communications app, a program which has been available for both Android and iOS sin… Continue reading Signal Patches Code Injection Bug that Enabled Remote Code Execution
This week in Tripwire’s countdown of the FBI’s 10 most-wanted black-hat hackers, we name three hackers bound together in digital crime: Wen Xinyu, Huang Zhenyu and Sun Kailiang. The suspects made headlines in May 2014 when the United States… Continue reading The FBI’s 10 Most-Wanted Black-Hat Hackers – #5, #4 and #3
Some Chili’s restaurant locations suffered a data security incident that might have compromised customers’ payment card details. Brinker International, a Dallas-based multinational hospitality industry company which operates 1,600 ChiliR… Continue reading Chili’s Restaurants Suffered Payment Card Data Security Incident
Scammers designed a phishing website and encrypted it with the Advanced Encrypted Standard (AES) in their attempts to steal unsuspecting users’ Apple IDs. Researchers at Trend Micro came across the phishing campaign on 30 April. It all began when… Continue reading Phishing Site Encrypted With AES Designed to Steal Users’ Apple IDs
Developers have found that a fake version of a popular Bitcoin Wallet comes equipped with the ability to steal users’ seeds. On 9 May, the Electrum team published a document on GitHub calling out “Electrum Pro” as “stealwareR… Continue reading Devs Find Fake Version of Bitcoin Wallet Stealing Users’ Seeds
The computer system for the Danish capital area city bikes program went offline as a result of a malicious hacking attack. On 5 May, the administrators of Bycyklen posted a statement informing the public of a hack that occurred sometime over the previo… Continue reading Danish Capital Area Bikes System Goes Down due to Hacking Attack
Containers are revolutionizing the way that organizations deploy applications. These technologies are packages, notes Amazon Web Services (AWS), that enable teams to run applications and their code, configurations and dependencies in resource-isolated … Continue reading Why Organizations Need to Secure Their Containers
The FBI has received a total of more than four million Internet crime complaints from users since the year 2000. According to its Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) 2017 Internet Crime Report, the Bureau received its four millionth Internet crime co… Continue reading FBI Has Received Over Four Million Internet Crime Complaints Since 2000