Cybercrime

For the first time massive DDoS attacks hit Russian banks in 2016

A number of prolonged DDoS attacks hit at least five Russian banks this week and experts suspect the involvement of…

9 years ago

Telecrypt ransomware abuses Telegram Messenger’s communication protocol

Telecrypt ransomware is a new malware that abuses the instant messaging service Telegram for command and control (C&C) communications. Security…

9 years ago

Malvertising campaign delivered Android Svpeng Trojan via a zero-day in Chrome

Kaspersky discovered a new strain of the Svpeng Trojan delivered through popular news websites using Google’s AdSense via a zero-day…

9 years ago

Technical analysis of the Locker virus on mobile phones

Security experts from Cheetah Mobile Security Research Lab published an interesting Technical analysis of the mobile variant of the Locker…

9 years ago

Tesco Bank suspended all online transactions due to a cyber heist

Tesco Bank halted all online transactions after a cyber heist affected thousands of its customers. An investigation is ongoing. Tesco…

9 years ago

Watch out! A new LinkedIn Phishing campaign is spreading in the wild

Experts from Heimdal Security reported a recent LinkedIn phishing campaign aiming to collect confidential information from unsuspecting users. Phishing attacks…

9 years ago

Shadows Kill Mirai Botnet caused an Internet outage in Liberia, what is the next one?

Mirai botnet was used to power a massive DDoS attack against Liberia causing the Internet outage in the entire country…

9 years ago

Young hacker arrested for disrupting 911 Service with a TDoS attack

An 18-year-old man from Arizona, Meetkumar Hiteshbhai Desai, was arrested this week because he is suspected for the severe disruption…

9 years ago

Crooks earned at least $1.35m with spamming campaigns

Authorities identified a man in Florida that powered spamming campaigns abusing an army of corporate servers and private email accounts.…

9 years ago

AV-TEST study sees search engine results even more poisoned with malicious links

According to a study published by the independent anti-virus testing outfit AV-TEST, the number of malicious search engine results has…

9 years ago

This website uses cookies.