Police dismantle gang of online fraudsters and romance scammers
The Italian Financial Police (Guardia di Finanza), supported by Europol, arrested 10 members of a transnational criminal group. The criminals, mainly Nigerian citizens, were …
German intelligence agency helped NSA spy on EU companies
Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND) has been aiding the US NSA spy on European companies and politicians since 2008, possibly even earlier, Der Spiegel claims …
CyberCenturion contest seeks out UK’s young cyber security talent
Northrop Grumman Corporation has renewed its commitment to run the successful CyberCenturion competition for a second year in 2016, continuing its efforts to seek out the …
Card skimming gang stole 3M euros using ghost PoS terminals
French police supported by Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) have arrested 18 members of a criminal gang who were illegally using modified, ’ghost’ …
Polymorphic Beebone botnet sinkholed in international police operation
On April 8, a global operation targeted the Beebone (also known as AAEH) botnet, a polymorphic downloader bot which installs various forms of malware on victims’ …
Digital privacy and Internet security to intersect at Digital Rights Europe
Digital Rights Ireland, Ireland’s leading digital rights advocacy group, has gathered an expert group of Irish and international speakers for the inaugural Digital …
French, Italian users targeted with judicial-themed spam leading to malware
Trend Micro researchers are warning about a clever and very well executed email spam campaign that has been targeting and continues to target French users with the goal of …
Fake “Urgent billing update” email leads to Virgin Media, Paypal phishing page
Customers of UK-based telecom and ISP Virgin Media are being targeted with a clever spam campaign that is after their account information, but also PayPal account login …
British Airways freezes some frequent-flyer accounts in wake of hack
Tens of thousands of British Airways customers have had their frequent-flyer accounts temporarily frozen in the wake of a security breach. “British Airways has become …
UK consumers committed to mobile privacy
Spurred by high-profile data breaches, Edward Snowden’s revelations, and by the growing awareness that their smartphones hold a lot of sensitive data, most UK users have …
State-sponsored hackers target European, Israeli organizations
Rocket Kitten, the APT group of attackers that have been delivering spear-phishing emails with the Ghole malware to Israeli and European institutions late last year, have …
Search for vulnerable servers unearths weak, thousands-times repeated RSA keys
A group of researchers from the Information Security Group from Royal Holloway, University of London, wanted to see how many TLS servers still supported the weak, export-grade …
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