cybercrime
Online transaction fraud to reach $25 billion by 2020
Online transaction fraud is expected to reach $25.6 billion by 2020, up from $10.7 billion last year, according to Juniper Research. This means that by the end of the decade, …
Cybercriminals filtering out victims by location
There’s a growing trend among cybercriminals to target and even filter out specific countries when designing ransomware, according to SophosLabs. To lure more victims …
Screen overlay Android malware is on the rise
As predicted, the ability to lay screens over legitimate (e.g. banking) apps is becoming a crucial feature for the success of Android malware. The capability was first seen in …
The economics of hacking: Change your thinking
If you saw the film Wall Street, you undoubtedly recall the iconic character Gordon Gekko famously stating, “what’s worth doing is worth doing for money.” This perspective is …
Bangladesh Bank hackers compromised SWIFT software with bespoke malware
Bit by bit, indications about how the attackers who targeted Bangladesh’s central bank managed to take off with some $80 milllion (of the nearly $1 billion they aimed …
Attackers opt for discreet methods to spy inside the network
For its latest report, Vectra analyzed data from 120 customer networks comprised of more than 1.3 million hosts over the first quarter of 2016. All organizations showed signs …
Exploit kits: The rise in user-friendly malware
In past years, we’re seen a massive increase in the use of exploit kits. No website is too great to withstand the many powerful kits, with the Mail Online famously …
A global data analysis of hostile activity
Solutionary’s latest Global Threat Intelligence Report contains information from 24 security operations centers, seven R&D centers, 3.5 trillion logs, 6.2 billion …
Exposing the Cybercrime as a Business model
Trustwave released a new report which reveals the top cybercrime, data breach and security threat trends from 2015. Experts gathered real-world data from hundreds of breach …
Beware of emails with JavaScript attachments!
Malware peddlers are always looking for the next trick to get users to infect their computers. According to Microsoft and other sources, the current latest trick is malicious …
6,013 breaches reported in the US since 2005
In 2005, the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) began monitoring and tallying the ever-growing number of US security breaches. Since then, the organization has seen a 397 …
Black hat SEO campaign targets WordPress and Joomla installations
Avast is warning about a longstanding black hat SEO campaign involving sites running hacked WordPress and Joomla installations. In this latest campaign, the attackers inject a …