Cyber Crime

COINHOARDER criminal gang made an estimated $50 million with a Bitcoin phishing campaign

Researchers with Cisco Talos have monitored a bitcoin phishing campaign conducted by a criminal gang tracked as Coinhoarder that made an…

8 years ago

Researchers spotted a new malware in the wild, the Saturn Ransomware

Researchers at the MalwareHunterTeam spotted a new strain of ransomware called Saturn Ransomware, the name derives from the .saturn extension it appends…

8 years ago

Unknown hackers stole $6 million from a Russian bank via SWIFT system last year

A new attack against the SWIFT system made the headlines again, unknown hackers have stolen 339.5 million roubles (roughly $6…

8 years ago

A new variant of the dreaded AndroRAT malware appeared in threat landscape

Security researchers from Trend Micro detected a new variant of the popular AndroRAT Android RAT in the criminal ecosystem. Security…

8 years ago

Hackers in the Russian underground exploited a Telegram Zero-Day vulnerability to deliver malware

Security researcher Alexey Firsh at Kaspersky Lab last discovered a Telegram zero-day in the desktop Windows version that was exploited…

8 years ago

Necurs botnet is behind seasonal campaigns of Valentine’s Day-themed spam

Necurs botnet made headline again, the experts at IBM X-Force research team observed a spike in seasonal campaigns of Valentine’s Day-themed spam emails. Necurs…

8 years ago

Victims of some versions of the Cryakl ransomware can decrypt their files for free

Free decryption keys for the Cryakl ransomware were added to the free Rakhni Decryptor that could be downloaded on the…

8 years ago

49% of crypto mining scripts are deployed on pornographic related websites

The number of crypto mining scripts discovered by security experts continues to increase, especially those ones illegally deployed by hacking servers…

8 years ago

Thousands of websites worldwide hijacked by cryptocurrency mining code due Browsealoud plugin hack

Thousands of websites worldwide hijacked by a cryptocurrency mining code due to the hack of the popular Browsealoud plugin. A…

8 years ago

FSB arrested researchers at the Russian Federation Nuclear Center for using a supercomputer to mine Bitcoins

Russian authorities have arrested some employees at the Russian Federation Nuclear Center facility because they are suspected for trying to…

8 years ago

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