Bogus Facebook hacking tool dupes users
Symantec has seen another round of a ham-fisted but surprisingly successful attack that targets Facebook users hoping to break into their friends' accounts.
Jeremy Kirk | 01 May | Read more
Symantec has seen another round of a ham-fisted but surprisingly successful attack that targets Facebook users hoping to break into their friends' accounts.
Jeremy Kirk | 01 May | Read more
Cybercriminals stole debit card information from customers of dozens of financial institutions in a phishing campaign that combined rogue text messages and with VoIP calls.
Lucian Constantin | 30 Apr | Read more
Target is upgrading the security of its store-branded payment cards and making other network improvements as it seeks to restore confidence after one of the largest-ever data breaches last year.
Jeremy Kirk | 30 Apr | Read more
A cybercriminal operation that combines phone-based social engineering attacks with spear phishing and malware to steal money from organizations has resurfaced this year, finding victims in French-speaking countries in particular.
Lucian Constantin | 25 Apr | Read more
An Android Trojan app that sends SMS messages to premium-rate numbers has expanded globally over the past year, racking up bills for users in over 60 countries including the U.S., malware researchers from Kaspersky Lab said.
Lucian Constantin | 24 Apr | Read more
Smaller financial institutions have been warned to look out for attacks that aim to increase the withdrawal limit on customer payment cards for fraud purposes.
Jeremy Kirk | 03 Apr | Read more
Security vendor Trustwave was accused in a class-action suit of failing to detect the attack that led to Target's data breach, one of the largest on record.
Jeremy Kirk | 26 Mar | Read more
A new variant of a malicious program called BitCrypt that encrypts files and asks victims for bitcoin payments is being distributed by a computer Trojan that first pilfers bitcoin wallets.
Lucian Constantin | 25 Mar | Read more
A group of enterprising cybercriminals have figured out how to get cash from a certain type of ATM -- by text message.
Jeremy Kirk | 25 Mar | Read more
Russian-Morrocan hacker Farid Essebar, known online as Diabl0, was arrested in Bangkok at the request of law enforcement authorities from Switzerland who want him extradited to face charges in connection with computer fraud offenses and credit card information theft.
Lucian Constantin | 19 Mar | Read more
An archive containing transaction records from Mt. Gox that was released on the Internet last week by the hackers who compromised the blog of Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles also contains bitcoin-stealing malware for Windows and Mac.
Lucian Constantin | 17 Mar | Read more
Italian police in Genoa have opened an investigation into the use of Skype to trap victims into online sexual indiscretions, which are recorded and used as a pretext for extortion.
Philip Willan | 11 Mar | Read more
Companies and their boards are struggling with increased regulatory burden and the risks associated with operating in emerging Asian markets, according to a recent report released by Ernst & Young's (EY's) Fraud Investigation & Dispute Services group.
Hackers found security weaknesses that allowed them to overdraw accounts with Flexcoin and Poloniex, two websites that facilitate bitcoin transactions, and exploited them to steal bitcoins from the two services. The attacks put Flexcoin out of business and cost Poloniex's users 12.3 percent of their bitcoins.
Lucian Constantin | 05 Mar | Read more
David Jevans, CTO and founder of Marble Security, recently received some bad feedback from a potential customer testing his company's product, which helps organizations manage and secure their mobile devices.
Jeremy Kirk | 05 Mar | Read more