cybercriminals
Wardriving gang targeting small firms
A group of individuals who are believed to have been engaged in wardriving around Seattle and stealing personal and financial information from networks belonging to small area …
Carder pleads guilty to hacking and selling stolen card numbers
A carder and hacker that has been arrested in 2009 by the Secret Service for trying to sell 40 stolen card numbers to one of their undercover agents, has pleaded guilty to …
Gold-themed spam fishing for personal information
It is almost a rule of thumb that everything that might interest a large number of people makes for a good lure for spammers and scammers. From news regarding natural …
Software company Ashampoo breached, customer data stolen
The German computer software company Ashampoo has been targeted by attackers that managed to gain access to its customers database and possibly exfiltrated data such as names …
Interest in royal wedding abused by fake AV peddlers
As the day of the wedding of Prince William of England and his long-time girlfriend Kate Middleton quickly approaches, scammers have began to exploit the interest of Internet …
Dramatic increase in cyberattacks on critical infrastructure
A survey of 200 IT security executives from critical electricity infrastructure enterprises in 14 countries found that 40 percent of executives believed that their …
European Space Agency website and FTP servers hacked
The European Space Agency’s website has been hacked on Sunday by a Romanian going by the handle TinKode, who documented the hack on his personal blog and made public the …
Bredolab variant delivered by fake Facebook warning
There are over 600 millions of active Facebook users in the world, so it’s no wonder that they are often targets of a great variety of scams. The latest one is delivered …
Cybercriminals shifting to smaller, more opportunistic attacks
Data loss through cyber attacks decreased sharply in 2010, but the total number of breaches was higher than ever, according to the “Verizon 2011 Data Breach …
Malware silently hijacks Facebook account and adds apps
Several months ago, when the operators of the Sality P2P botnet pushed out malware that not only collected usernames and passwords and sends them to the C&C servers but …
WordPress.com servers breached, source code presumed copied
Automattic – the web development corporation behind WordPress.com – has suffered a root break-in and a compromise of several of their servers. “We have been …
French hacker and alleged Anonymous member arrested after bragging on TV
A French hacker has effectually tied a noose around his own neck when he bragged about hacking into the systems of a big government contractor on national TV. He participated …