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Court decides bank is not to blame for $440k cybertheft

In many ways, small businesses are the perfect target for money hungry cyber crooks. Smaller companies are unlikely to have dedicated IT employees, making it less likely they …

Code hosting Code Spaces destroyed by extortion hack attack

Cloud code hosting service Code Spaces is forced to shut down, as a DDoS attack coupled with an unsuccessful extortion attempt was followed by the attacker deleting most of …

Bitcoin miner lurking on Facebook

Facebook users, beware: a new viral campaign aimed at saddling you with a Bitcoin mining Trojan has been spotted. “The virus spreads through private Facebook messages, …

Scan of Google Play apps reveals thousands of secret keys

A team of researchers from Columbia University has downloaded and decompiled over 880,000 applications found on Google Play, and has discovered – among other things …

Would you run potentially malicious programs in return for a dollar?

A group of researchers have discovered a depressing fact: some computer users will download and run an executable that they can’t be sure isn’t malicious for as …

Microsoft patches DoS flaw in its Malware Protection Engine

Microsoft has released an update for its Malware Protection Engine to fix a privately reported security vulnerability that could allow a denial of service if the Microsoft …

Android smartphones pre-installed with malware hit the market

Cheap Android-based smartphones pre-installed with spyware are being distributed to European users, experts from German security vendor G Data are warning. The malware is …

GCHQ legally intercepts Google, Facebook users’ communications

A successful legal challenge has forced the UK’s top counter-terrorism official to reveal the (until now) secret government policy that allows the GCHQ to intercept …

Hacker nets over $600k by compromising NAS systems to mine Dogecoin

A single threat actor is responsible for the compromise of a considerable number of Synology NAS systems that were set to mine Dogecoing in secret and have netted him over …

There’s a new banking Trojan in town

A new piece of banking malware is being delivered via tax- and invoice-themed phishing campaigns, Danish security company CSIS is warning. Dubbed “Dyreza,” the …

Java program to reverse Android ransomware damage

University of Sussex student Simon Bell has reverse-engineered the Android Simplocker (Simplelocker) ransomware, and has created a Java program that can be converted into an …

A new defense against kernel-mode exploits

Over the past many years, there’ve been a plethora of security solutions available for Windows-based endpoints, but most of them are helpless against malicious code …

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