cybercrime
Police ransomware: A multimillion business
The European Cybercrime Centre at Europol published its Threat Assessment on Police Ransomware – a class of computer malware that has seen exponential growth in the …
Target advocates smart cards in wake of breach
The recent avalanche of breaches that resulted in tens of millions of payment cards being compromised has shook both the US retail market and the customers. Despite subsequent …
Hotel management firm breached, card details of guests stolen
Hotel management firm White Lodging seems to have had its systems compromised and the attackers managed to exfiltrate a yet unknown quantity of credit and debit card details. …
Security breaches, data loss and outages cost U.S. hospitals $1.6B
A new MeriTalk report, based on a survey of healthcare IT executives and underwritten by EMC, quantifies the organizational cost associated with security breaches, data loss, …
Hackers breach Bell Canada, leak customer info and passwords
The hacker group NullCrew has managed to access servers belonging to Bell Canada – or a third-party supplier, as Bell claims – and steal and ultimately leak …
Operators of email hacking websites arrested in US, China, Romania
As part of an international law enforcement operation involving Romania, India, and China, US federal prosecutors have charged two operators of a United States-based email …
1.1 million affected in Neiman Marcus breach
American luxury department store chain Neiman Marcus has finally offered some details about the breach it suffered during the end of the year holidays. It’s not as bad …
Financial data leads the malicious spam hit list
The proportion of spam in email traffic continues to fall – in the last three years the share of unsolicited messages has fallen by 10.7 percentage points. It appears …
Researchers share more details about the Target POS malware
A handful of security companies have been researching the Target breach, and the information they unearthed is slowly trickling out to satisfy the public’s curiosity as …
Silk Road forfeits $28 million in Bitcoins
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the forfeiture of approximately 29,655 Bitcoins (which, at today’s Bitcoin …
Malware used in Target breach sold on underground forums
Target continues to be rather tight-lipped about the circumstances of the massive user data theft and the breach of their networks that made it possible, but the few details …
Explosive growth of advanced attacks and malicious traffic
The Cisco 2014 Annual Security Report, released today, reveals that threats designed to take advantage of users’ trust in systems, applications and personal networks …