Early this year at least three European financial institutions were hit by DDoS attacks powered by a new variant of the Mirai botnet. A variant of the Mirai botnet, composed at lease of 13,000 compromised IoT devices was used to launch a series of DDoS attacks against financial sector businesses. The DDoS attacks peaked at up […]
A payment card breach suffered by [24]7.ai. between September 26 and October 12, 2017, is impacting major firm, including Best Buy, After Delta Air Lines and Sears Holdings. Another day another data breach, while media are reporting the security breach suffered Delta Air Lines and Sears Holdings due to the [24]7.ai a payment card breach, […]
Hackers compromised hundreds of Magento e-commerce websites to steal credit card numbers and install crypto-mining malware. According to the security firm Flashpoint, hackers launched brute-force attacks against Magento installs, they used a dictionary composed of common and known default Magento credentials. “Ecommerce websites running on the popular open-source Magento platform are being targeted by attackers who are using […]
FIN7 hackers stole credit and debit card information from millions of consumers who have purchased goods at Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor stores. A new data breach made the headlines, the victim is Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor stores. According to the parent company Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC), the security breach […]
Researchers at Trend Micro recently discovered a new strain of Android miner dubbed ANDROIDOS HIDDENMINER that can brick infected devices Crooks are looking with increasing interest cryptocurrency mining malware developed for mobile devices. Researchers at Trend Micro recently discovered a new strain of Android malware dubbed ANDROIDOS HIDDENMINER that abuse device CPU to mine Monero cryptocurrency. HiddenMiner […]
The Philippine central bank has thrown an alert to local financial institutions following a cyber attack against the SWIFT servers at the Malaysian central bank. The Philippine central bank has thrown an alert to local financial institutions following a cyber attack against the Malaysian central bank. According to Malaysian governor, the hackers attempted to steal money through fraudulent wire […]
Last week, the Czech Republic announced it had extradited the Russian hacker Yevgeni Nikulin (29) to the United States. Yevgeni Nikulin was requested by the US for alleged cyber attacks on social networks and by the Russian authorities that charged him with frauds. According to US authorities, the man targeted LinkedIn and Formspring and hacked into the file hosting […]
According to an NBC report, the Grindr gay-dating app was affected by 2 security issues (now patched) that could expose the information of its more than 3 million daily users. Every day we read of a new data breach, in some cases, exposed data could have a severe impact on the victim. According to an NBC report, the Grindr […]
Security researchers at Cybereason recently discovered a credential-stealing malware dubbed Fauxpersky, that is masquerading as Kaspersky Antivirus and spreading via infected USB drives. Fauxpersky was written in AutoIT or AutoHotKey, which respectively are a freeware BASIC-like scripting language designed for automating the Windows GUI and general scripting and a free keyboard macro program to send keystrokes to […]
An international operation conducted by the Romanian National Police and the Italian National Police, with support from Europol, the Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce (J-CAT), and Eurojust. led to the arrest of 20 individuals involved in a banking spear phishing scam. According to the investigators, the banking phishing scam allowed crooks to defrauded bank customers of âŹ1 million […]