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Another malware building toolkit leaked, botnets already popping up

“Another malware building toolkit has been leaked, allowing less tech-savvy crooks to generate a fully functional variant of the KINS banking Trojan and to inject its …

Man gets 50 months in prison hacking U.S.-based financial institutions

Qendrim Dobruna, a member of an international cybercrime syndicate, was sentenced to 50 months’ imprisonment and restitution in the amount of $14 million for his role in …

Plex forums hacked: IPs, private messages, encrypted passwords compromised

Users of Plex’s forums are being forced to change their password in wake of a breach that resulted in the compromise of some of their private information, including …

Harvard University suffers IT security breach

Discovered on June 19, the intrusion was first spotted on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Central Administration information technology networks, but a subsequent …

Cloned, booby-trapped Dark Web sites steal bitcoins, login credentials

Someone is cloning .onion sites, and using the clones to intercept user traffic and offer modified content.“I noticed a while ago that there is a clone onion site for …

Fake Twitter verification profiles trick victims into sharing personal, payment card info

A little over 18,000 Twitter users looking for a way to get their accounts verified have been duped by a single fake account promising to provide the service into visiting a …

US OPM takes vulnerable background investigation portal offline

The US Office of Personnel Management announced on Monday that it has temporarily suspended the E-QIP (Electronic Questionnaires for Investigations Processing) system, a …

Hackers are exploiting Magento flaw to steal payment card info

Attackers are exploiting a vulnerability in eBay’s Magento platform to steal users’ billing information (including payment card info), warns Sucuri …

Nigerian scammers are stealing millions from businesses

When someone mentions advanced fee or romance scams most people immediately associate them with Nigerian scammers. But there is another type of scam that these fraudsters …

Hackers are spending a huge amount of resources targeting financial services

Websense revealed a high degree of specialization among criminals attacking financial services, a huge investment in the lure attack phase and the specific and anomalous …

Six key facts about malicious macros and the cybercrime economy

“Cybercrime is big business and criminals are increasingly exploiting people to circumvent automated protection systems. Cybercriminals have, in the last nine months, …

Over $18 million lost to Cryptowall just in the US

“Cryptowall is still “the most current and significant ransomware threat targeting US individuals and businesses,” the FBI warned in a public service …

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