Cyber Crime

Dissecting the first Gafgyt bot implementing the “VanillaUPX technique”

Experts at the CSE Cybsec Z-Lab have found a Gafgyt variant implementing the VanillaUPX technique recently presented in a cybersecurity…

8 years ago

Mirai authors avoid the jail by helping US authorities in other investigations

Three men who admitted to being the authors of the Mirai botnet avoided the jail after helping the FBI in other…

8 years ago

Evolution of threat landscape for IoT devices – H1 2018

Security experts from Kaspersky have published an interesting report on the new trends in the IoT threat landscape. What is infecting…

8 years ago

New XBash malware combines features from ransomware, cryptocurrency miners, botnets, and worms

Palo Alto Network researchers discovered a new malware, tracked as XBash, that combines features from ransomware, cryptocurrency miners, botnets, and…

8 years ago

Greek authorities approved extradition of Russian hacker Alexander Vinnik to Russia

Greek authorities have approved the extradition of Russian Alexander Vinnik to Russia, Supreme Civil and Criminal Court of Greece overruled previous ones.…

8 years ago

EOSBet Gambling application hacked, crooks stole $200,000 worth of EOS

The gambling application EOSBet was affected by a vulnerability in its smart contract system that has been exploited by attackers to steal…

8 years ago

Cyber attack took offline flight display screens at the Bristol Airport

The Bristol Airport was hit by a cyber attack that caused problems with operations, flight display screens were taken offline…

8 years ago

Feedify cloud service architecture compromised by MageCart crime gang

MageCart cyber gang compromised the cloud service firm Feedify and stole payment card data from customers of hundreds of e-commerce sites. MageCart crime…

8 years ago

Security Affairs newsletter Round 180 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me…

8 years ago

Kelihos botmaster pleads guilty in U.S. District Court in Connecticut

The creator of the infamous Kelihos Botnet, Peter Yuryevich Levashov (38) pleaded guilty this week to computer crime, fraud, conspiracy and identity…

8 years ago

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