Cybercrime

Security Affairs newsletter Round 157 – 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

HiddenMiner Android Cryptocurrency miner can brick your device

Researchers at Trend Micro recently discovered a new strain of Android miner dubbed ANDROIDOS HIDDENMINER that can brick infected devices…

8 years ago

Russian hacker Yevgeni Nikulin was extradited to the United States

Last week, the Czech Republic announced it had extradited the Russian hacker Yevgeni Nikulin (29) to the United States. Yevgeni Nikulin was…

8 years ago

European police agencies coordinated by Europol arrested 20 people for Spear Phishing scam

  An international operation conducted by the Romanian National Police and the Italian National Police, with support from Europol, the Joint…

8 years ago

New ThreadKit exploit builder used to spread banking Trojan and RATs

A recently discovered Microsoft Office document exploit builder kit dubbed ThreadKit has been used to spread a variety of malware, including…

8 years ago

Law enforcement arrested the head of the Carbanak gang that stole 1 billion from banks

The head of the crime ring behind the Carbanak gang that since 2013 targeted banks worldwide has been arrested in Spain. The…

8 years ago

Reddit banned the biggest Darknet markets subreddit /R/DarkNetmarkets

Recently Reddit decided to ban the biggest darknet subreddit, /r/darknetmarkets, used by crime communities to discuss producta and services in the most…

8 years ago

The City of San Diego is suing the Experian credit agency for 2013 security breach

According to the lawsuit filed by San Diego city attorney Mara Elliott the Experian credit agency never notified the 2013 security breach to…

8 years ago

City of Atlanta paralyzed by a ransomware attack, is it SAMSAM?

Computer systems in the City of Atlanta were infected by ransomware, the cyber attack was confirmed by the City officials. The city…

8 years ago

Frost Bank announced it has suffered a data breach that exposed check images

On Friday, Frost Bank announced that it has suffered a data breach that exposed check images, crooks could use them…

8 years ago

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