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Fake Better Business Bureau notifications carry malware

Emails purported to be notifications about complaints received by the Better Business Bureau are hitting inboxes, trying to scare recipients into opening the attached file: …

Former Anonymous spokesman indicted for sharing stolen card data

After having been arrested last September and having been detained in custody ever since, 31-year-old Barrett Brown has finally been indicted for possessing and transmitting …

Hackers encrypt medical centre’s patient data, ask for ransom

Russian hackers have apparently managed to break into a server where an Australian medical centre keeps its patients’ records, encrypt the data, and are now asking for …

Team GhostShell leaks 1.6M account details

Hacker collective Team GhostShell, which has recently specialized in massive data leaks, has done it again and made public 1.6 million account details allegedly stolen from …

Multipurpose Necurs Trojan infects over 83,000 computers

The polivalent Necurs malware family has been wreaking havoc in November by infecting over 83,000 unique computers – and that are only the ones detected by …

Beware of Bitcoin miner posing as Trend Micro AV

Malware almost always comes in disguise, but some malware peddlers try to do a better job than others. Trend Micro researchers have recently uncovered a piece of malware that …

U.K. hacker convicted for taking part in Anonymous attacks

22-year-old Christopher Weatherhead from Northampton, U.K., has been convicted on Thursday on one count of conspiracy to impair the operation of computers for his involvement …

Beware of bogus Facebook account cancellation requests

Bogus “Facebook Account Cancellation Request” emails are back, and this time the malicious senders didn’t opt for making users infect themselves. The …

Malicious email simultaneously impersonates UPS and FedEx

Malicious notifications supposedly coming from major courier delivery services companies are nothing new, but they still must catch enough users off guard. This latest one is …

Gameover gang uses Cutwail botnet to swell its own

The hackers behind the Gameover variant of the popular Zeus banking Trojan have rented the massive Cutwail botnet in order to send out millions of fake emails carrying the …

Huge GPU cluster makes password hacking a breeze

Cracking encrypted passwords is getting increasingly easier as researchers come up with new ways of harnessing CPU, GPU and cloud power to perform the task. The latest of the …

Exploit kit authors thrive due to PoC code released by whitehats

Do exploit kit authors actually write the exploits they include in their offerings? Sophos’ researcher Gabor Szappanos says the answer is a resounding “No.” …

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