Police arrest Sage employee at airport on fraud charges
The City of London Police arrested a Sage employee on Wednesday on suspicion of fraud.
The City of London Police arrested a Sage employee on Wednesday on suspicion of fraud.
Austrian aviation parts maker FACC has fired its CEO after the firm lost over €50m ($47m) in a targeted phishing attack in January, which precipitated a dramatic fall in its share price.
The streamlining of international payment systems may have created new opportunities for criminal fraudsters, but one financial-security specialist believes the sector is finding new ways to fight back by using social-media analytics to ferret out fraudulent activity that might otherwise go unnoticed.
David Braue | 19 Apr | Read more
MyNetPhone VoIP carrier subsidiary SymbioNetworks has revealed that it blocked over 10,000 attempts by scam operators to place fraudulent calls via compromised Australian routers and PABX systems during the holiday long weekend.
Andrew Colley | 05 Apr | Read more
McGrathNicol has announced that Shane Bell will re-join the firm as a Forensic and Cyber Director. Shane has extensive leadership experience and expertise in cybersecurity, cybercrime, fraud, forensic and information risk management consulting across both the public and private sectors. His appointment reflects McGrathNicol’s strong commitment to its cybersecurity offering.
Anthony Caruana | 24 Aug | Read more
The former administrator of Darkode, the online cybercrime forum that was recently shut down by law enforcement agencies, is preparing to bring it back, with better security and privacy for its members.
Lucian Constantin | 29 Jul | Read more
A small group of Nigerian scammers is using more sophisticated methods to defraud mostly Asian businesses, including buying exploit kits and malware from experienced coders, according to a new report from FireEye.
Jeremy Kirk | 23 Jul | Read more
The online advertising industry is marshaling a fresh effort to fight click fraud, which steals money from advertisers and undermines faith in online campaigns.
Jeremy Kirk | 22 Jul | Read more
Cybercriminals are casting increasingly wider nets in their search for new point-of-sale systems to infect. This appears to be the case with a new memory scraping malware program called GamaPoS that's distributed by a large botnet known as Andromeda.
Lucian Constantin | 17 Jul | Read more
The Internet could see a new wave of botnets based on the ZeusVM banking Trojan after the tools needed to build and customize the malware program were published online for free.
Lucian Constantin | 06 Jul | Read more
The closure of a shady telemarketing company came just days after an IDG report revealed new insights into online antivirus-related pressure sells that are netting big bucks from those “Your PC may be infected” advertisements.
David Braue | 15 Jun | Read more
Scotty Zifka was looking for a sales job. He started one in late May at a company called EZ Tech Support, a small inbound call center in an older building in northeast Portland, Oregon.
Jeremy Kirk | 11 Jun | Read more
Police in several European countries arrested 49 suspected members of a gang they say broke into corporate email accounts, using them to divert payments from business customers.
Lucian Constantin | 10 Jun | Read more
The data breach landscape could look very different in the future with the increased adoption of chip-enabled payment cards in North America -- but for now point-of-sale systems account for the majority of breaches there, compared to a tiny minority in other regions of the world.
Lucian Constantin | 10 Jun | Read more
Cybercriminals in Japan are targeting iPhone users with an online scam that tricks them into installing a malicious application when they attempt to view porn videos.
Lucian Constantin | 03 Jun | Read more