US charges Dridex banking trojan operators, offers $5m bounty
UK National Crime Agency claims it's identified the operator behind the world's worst cybercrime group.
UK National Crime Agency claims it's identified the operator behind the world's worst cybercrime group.
Malware spreads to known contacts via SMS messages.
Banking Trojans were a more common email payload in the first quarter of this year than ransomware, according to new figures that reflect a tactical shift that has security experts warning of a resurgence of financial cybercrime.
David Braue | 04 Jun | Read more
Over 50,000 compromised websites no longer bump visitors across to pages hosting browser attacks.
Your inbox is now overwhelmingly the favorite way cybercriminals try to hack your computer.
Don't click "View my bill" if you receive these emails from Telstra or EnergyAustralia.
If you downloaded a flashlight app from Google Play in past month, it might be worth checking it isn't this banking trojan.
Researcher finds two apps on Google Play that overlay fake sign-in pages for Australian bank apps when users attempt to launch the real banking app.
The Ashley Madison postmortem continued, with Trend Micro uncovering apparent spams that were being used by the company in conjunction with fake user profiles – and some suggesting that the way the firm's developers had stored sensitive credentials allowed hackers to slip past their defences and crack 11.2 million passwords. Such source-code analysis is proving to be a treasure trove for hackers, with one cyberespionage group caught borrowing code from a leaked online banking Trojan.
David Braue | 14 Sep | Read more
Hackers have compromised a number of WordPress blogs to point visitors to a Pirate Bay clone that is serving up an exploit kit loaded with banking malware.
Australian banks and other large enterprises are being targeted by the banking trojan Hesperbot. According to ESET, who first detected Hesperbot in November 2013, this is putting at risk the financial information of millions of customers.
Anthony Caruana | 21 Mar | Read more
KINS is 'something that cyber criminals are cheering on,' RSA said
John P. Mello | 24 Jul | Read more
Over the past year, about 30,000 European banking customers were robbed of about 36 million euros -- that's about $47 million -- in an online banking scam that worked by exploiting mobile devices, according to security firms that stumbled into the operation.
Ellen Messmer | 05 Dec | Read more