cybercrime

Symantec researchers have recently stumbled upon a phishing site that packs a double whammy: the site asks the user either to log into Facebook or to download an app in order …

BH Consulting, a specialist firm in information security consulting, today announced that its CEO Brian Honan has been appointed as a Special Advisor on Internet Security to …

The cost, frequency and time to resolve cyberattacks continue to rise for the fourth consecutive year, according to a global study by HP and the Ponemon Institute. The 2013 …

The Silk Road shutdown and the arrest of his alleged founder and owner have resonated throughout the Deep Wed and have frightened many of its denizens – but not all. …

Over the weekend, customers of Hong Kong-based VPN service PureVPN were taken aback by an email that was seemingly sent by the company’s founder Uzair Gadit, saying that …

Hackers have breached Adobe’s network and have made off with personal, account, and encrypted financial information of nearly 3 million Adobe customers, as well as the …

The European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) at Europol has supported Spanish National Police in arresting two Ukrainian criminals in Madrid who sold cybercriminals access to a huge …

Kaspersky Lab’s security research team discovered Icefog, a small yet energetic Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group that focuses on targets in South Korea and Japan, …

The websites of nearly a dozen energy sector companies have been compromised to serve as so-called “watering holes”, where visitors would be served with malware or …

Eight men have been arrested by the Metropolitan Police’s Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) in connection with a £1.3 million theft by a gang who stole the money by …

iovation announced that 30.2 percent of transactions conducted from Tor (the onion router) in August were fraudulent. This compared with an overall fraud rate of 1 percent for …

More than one in ten consumers globally have been victims of online fraud that cost them money, according to a recent F-Secure survey which fleshed out consumer concerns about …