cybercriminals
Popular Swedish news site latest link to fake AV infection
The website of popular Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet has been compromised to redirect visitors to a website sporting bogus infection warnings in order to trick them into buying …
Cyber risks awaiting visitors and viewers of Sochi 2014 Olympics
The 2014 Winter Olympics are set to start on Friday in Sochi, a Russian city located on the shores of the Black Sea. There have been many controversies regarding this choice …
Reactions to the Yahoo Mail hack
Unknown attackers have attempted to access a number of Yahoo Mail accounts and urged users to change their passwords even if they haven’t been affected. Here are some of …
10,000+ UK systems affected by ICEPOL Trojan ransomware
At least 10,331 successful installs of ICEPOL Trojan ransomware took place in the UK last year. Bitdefender’s Cybercrime Investigation Unit analysed the disk images of …
Beware of bogus Google “Suspicious sign-in prevented” emails
A very convincing phishing attempt aimed at harvesting users’ Google account credentials has been spotted by a security researcher (click on the screenshot to enlarge …
SpyEye creator pleads guilty
Aleksandr Andreevich Panin, a Russian national also known as “Gribodemon” and “Harderman,” has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire and bank …
Surge in mobile network infections affects millions of devices
Security threats to mobile devices continues its rapid rise, infecting at any time more than 11.6 million devices and putting their owners at increased risk for stolen …
Android bootkit infects 350,000 devices
The first ever Android Trojan with bootkit capabilities has been discovered and analysed by Dr.Web researchers, who warn that the malware is already operating on some 350,000 …
Fully functional trojanized FileZilla client steals FTP logins
Trojanized versions of the hugely popular FileZilla FTP client are being offered to unsuspecting users via hacked websites with fake content. “Malware installer GUI is …
Operators of email hacking websites arrested in US, China, Romania
As part of an international law enforcement operation involving Romania, India, and China, US federal prosecutors have charged two operators of a United States-based email …
Feds take over online counterfeit card webshop, arrest its operators
Three men who allegedly ran a one-stop online shop selling counterfeit credit cards and holographic overlays to be used by criminals to make fake identifications, face federal …
Spoofed Whatsapp site delivers polymorphic SMS Trojan
The more popular an online service or an app is, the more likely this popularity will be misused by cyber crooks to trick users into downloading malware or sharing personal …