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The incident may have been orchestrated by organised criminals, says Mexico’s central bank Cyber-thieves have made off with hundreds of millions of pesos from Mexican banks using the country’s domestic electronic transfer system. The attack is similar to earlier ones Read More …
The GandCrab ransomware continues to virulently spread and adapt to shifting cyber-conditions, most recently crawling back into relevance on the back of several large-scale spam campaigns. What’s interesting is that GandCrab payload was found hiding on legitimate but compromised websites. Read More …
Well, that did not take long. Within just 10 days of the disclosure of two critical vulnerabilities in GPON router at least 5 botnet families have been found exploiting the flaws to build an army of million devices. Security researchers from Chinese-based Read More …
About 301,580 consumers reported cyber-fraud and malware attacks to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) last year – with reported losses exceeding a whopping $1.4 billion. The year’s haul of reports brings the overall total of complaints since the Read More …
Manufacturing was the sector most attacked by cyber-criminals in the UK last year, a report from NTT Security has found, mirroring warnings from other agencies including the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) . The firm’s Global Threat Intelligence Report 2018 Read More …
GravityRAT is a Trojan which checks the temperature of a system to detect the presence of virtual machines (VMs) and prevent efforts at analysis by researchers. By taking thermal readings, the Remote Access Trojan (RAT), which has become a recent Read More …
Symantec has identified a new attack group dubbed Orangeworm deploying the Kwampirs backdoor in a targeted attack campaign against the healthcare sector and related industries. Symantec has identified a previously unknown group called Orangeworm that has been observed installing a Read More …
Compromised servers used by Crouching Yeti/Energetic Bear hacker group found by Kaspersky Lab A hacker collective known for attacking industrial companies around the world have had some of their infrastructure identified by Russian security specialists. Kaspersky Lab said that it Read More …
Nearly half of UK manufacturers have been hit by a cyber security incident, according to a report by an industry organisation, which calls for greater government focus on the specific security needs of the sector Some 48% of UK manufacturers Read More …
Cyber crime generates $1.5tn (£1.1tn) in revenue every year, according to a groundbreaking report released at RSA Conference on Friday. The research, conducted by Surrey University criminologist Michael McGuire and commissioned by security firm Bromium, reveals that if cyber crime Read More …