cybercrime
The operations of a cyber arms dealer
FireEye researchers have linked eleven distinct APT cyber espionage campaigns previously believed to be unrelated, leading them to believe that there is a shared operation …
Bitcoin wallet service hacked, 4,100 Bitcoins stolen
A daring hack and heist targeting online Bitcoin wallet service Inputs.io has resulted in the theft of 4,100 Bitcoins (currently over $1.3 million) and has left some of the …
Silk Road 2.0 goes online
As announced by well-known Silk Road user named “The Godfather”, who has been doing business on the infamous underground market for the last few years, another …
Malware peddlers testing new infection techniques
An ongoing malicious spam campaign impersonating UPS has shown that malware peddlers are experimenting with different approaches for infecting hapless users, and additional …
Security misconceptions among small businesses
More than 1,000 SMBs participated in a joint McAfee and Office Depot survey last month, and the majority (66 percent) felt confident that their data and devices are secure and …
Visual investigations of botnet command and control behavior
One of the classic debates in computer science concerns whether artificial intelligence or virtual reality is the more worthwhile pursuit. The advocates of artificial …
Exploring the dangers of a mobile lifestyle
We live in an increasingly digital world, and rely on the devices we use to store our more or less valuable information and to perform critical tasks. In fact, according to a …
Young employees don’t care about corporate policies
There’s a growing appetite of Generation Y employees to contravene corporate policies governing use of own devices, personal cloud storage accounts and new technologies …
Attackers use smaller botnets to launch high-bandwidth attacks
DDoS perpetrators changed tactics in Q3 2013 to boost attack sizes and hide their identities, according to Prolexic. “This quarter, the major concern is that reflection …
Top U.S. cities for online fraud origination
ThreatMetrix announced data ranking the top U.S. cities for the origination of online fraud. The data reveals that Santa Clara, CA, is the nation’s top spot for online …
Higher education networks 300% more likely to contain malware
OpenDNS researchers found that higher education networks are 300 percent more likely to contain malware than their enterprise and government counterparts. The study also …
Yara rules for leaked KINS toolkit
Just a few days ago, the source code of the famous KINS banking Trojan was leaked. KINS aims to infect as much computers as possible in order to steal credit cards, bank …
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