cybercrime

Kaspersky Lab has recorded a rare and unusual example of one cybercriminal attacking another. In 2014, Hellsing, a small and technically unremarkable cyberespionage group …

The former head of information security at the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL), who was arrested in January 2015, stands accused of having tampered with the computer …

US telecom giant Verizon has published its 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report, which is based on an analysis of nearly 80,000 security incidents, including more than 2,100 …

Cyber attackers are infiltrating networks and evading detection by hijacking the infrastructure of major corporations and using it against them, according to Symantec. …

The Simda botnet, believed to have infected more than 770,000 computers worldwide, has been targeted in a global operation. In a series of simultaneous actions around the …

A member of the identity theft and credit card fraud ring known as Carder.su was sentenced to 150 months in federal prison for selling stolen and counterfeit credit cards over …

On April 8, a global operation targeted the Beebone (also known as AAEH) botnet, a polymorphic downloader bot which installs various forms of malware on victims’ …

Threat actors are gaining capabilities through the adoption of cutting-edge tools instead of technical expertise, according to Websense. Redirect chains, code recycling and a …

RSA, The Security Division of EMC, released the results of a new global breach readiness survey that covered thirty countries and compared those global results with a survey …

“An experienced and resource-backed cybercrime gang” is using the relatively new Dyre/Dyreza banking Trojan coupled with effective social engineering to steal …

US president Barack Obama has signed on Wednesday a new executive order aimed at imposing “sanctions on individuals or entities that engage in malicious cyber-enabled …

Two former US federal agents have been charged with wire fraud, money laundering and related offenses for stealing digital currency during their investigation of Silk Road. …