cybercrime
Most small businesses can’t restore all data after a cyber attack
Almost one-third of U.S. small businesses surveyed by the Ponemon Institute had a cyber attack in the previous year, and nearly three-quarters of those businesses were not …
Cyberespionage campaign targeting government-affiliated organizations
Kaspersky Lab experts published a new research report about NetTraveler, which is a family of malicious programs used by APT actors to successfully compromise more than 350 …
Liberty Reserve laundered $6 billion through illegal transactions
An indictment has been unsealed on Tuesday charging Liberty Reserve, a company that operated one of the world’s most widely used digital currency services, and seven of …
Liberty Reserve founder arrested, site and service inaccessible
When the website of Liberty Reserve, a Costa Rica-based payment processor popular with cyber criminals, became inaccessible late last week, speculation about what caused were …
Fighting cybercrime is on the right track
Despite the numerous security incidents that took place during the first quarter of the year, the fight against cyber-crime is on the right track, according to PandaLabs. …
Commission wants to minimize U.S. IP theft economic impact
As the long awaited first meeting between China’s new president Xi Jinping and U.S. president Barack Obama draws near, the problem of cyber espionage and theft of …
Aurora attackers were looking for Google’s surveillance database
When in early 2010 Google shared with the public that they had been breached in what became known as the Aurora attacks, they said that the attackers got their hands on some …
Private messages of Bloomberg clients end up online
Mere days after Bloomberg News admitted that its journalists could access some client information via the company’s financial terminals, it has been revealed that the …
Mobile crimeware and the global criminal marketplace
The sprawling mobile devices marketplace has spawned an industrialized mobile financial fraud plexus that today drives increasingly sophisticated criminal technical innovation …
Fraudster who hired hackers to manipulate stock prices goes to prison
The central organizer of a worldwide conspiracy to manipulate stock prices through a “botnet” network of virus-controlled computers was sentenced today to 71 …
No money mule, no problem: Recruitment website kits for sale
A valuable asset in the fraud world, money mules enable cybercriminals to cash out stolen money. After cybercriminals take over a victim’s account, they enlist the help …
Eight indicted in $45M cybercrime campaign
A four-count federal indictment was unsealed in Brooklyn charging eight defendants with participating in two worldwide cyberattacks that inflicted $45 million in losses on the …