cybercriminals
LulzSec targets US Senate and online game company
LulzSec has struck again over the weekend, and this time the targets were the official website of the US Senate and the Bethesda Softworks’ computer network. Officials …
Web host victims repeatedly exploited by cybercriminals
More than one-third of respondents to an Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) survey were repeat victims of phishing attacks that resulted in a successful establishment of …
Foreign government behind IMF breach and data theft?
The International Monetary Fund’s systems have been breached by cyber attackers believed to be linked to a unnamed foreign government. According to the NYT, the hack …
Malware writers rely on users not updating
When infecting PCs, online criminals are increasingly benefiting from uninstalled updates for browsers and their components. Research carried out by G Data SecurityLabs …
Cybercriminals targeting sporting events and music festivals
BitDefender identified a series of scams targeting music festival goers, sporting event fans and holidaymakers this summer. The top summer-themed spam messages for 2011 relate …
Citigroup admits breach, warns customers about phishing
Citigroup has finally made public the fact that it suffered a breach into its systems in May and that the names of some 200,000 customers, their account numbers and contact …
Rustock still down, Microsoft pursues the botherders
Microsoft believes that the individuals behind the (still crippled) Rustock botnets are located in Russia, so it placed advertisements in the The Moscow News and the Delovoy …
Trends in the badware landscape
Badware is a defining challenge for individuals, businesses, and governments throughout the world. Cybercriminals have developed a mature badware economy in which individual …
Skimming gang indicted, facing over 60 years in prison
Four people have been charged of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, conspiracy to commit access device fraud, aggravated identity theft and bank fraud in the Manhattan federal …
Sony Pictures warns its customers about spear phishing
Following last week’s breach executed by LulzSec, Sony Pictures has finally issued a consumer alert and seems also to have sent it to the addresses of approximately …
25 percent of US hackers are FBI informants
Anyone who has read Kingpin won’t be much surprised by the estimate recently made by Eric Corley, publisher of 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, who said that some 25 percent …
LulzSec leaks Sony Developer source code
Nintendo has confirmed that the server configuration file published by LulzSec on Friday is the real deal, but says that that is the only thing they managed to access and that …
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