data theft
Hackers breaching law firms for insider trading info
Two of the most prestigious law firms in the US, best known for their financial services and corporate practices, have had their computer networks compromised by hackers. …
Carders use custom built POS malware to hit US retailers
Crypto-ransomware might be the most prominent type of malware these days, but that doesn’t mean that criminals have stopped using other kinds. According to FireEye …
Has your network been compromised? Use RITA to find out
Have you heard about RITA? Real Intelligence Threat Analysis is a an open source tool – a framework, actually – aimed at helping organizations find malicious …
Cyber onslaught threatens to overwhelm healthcare
Healthcare organizations average about one cyber attack per month, say the result of the recent Ponemon study on the state of cybersecurity in healthcare organizations. Almost …
Terbium Labs closes $6.4m in funding for stolen data discovery on Dark Web
Terbium Labs announced at RSA Conference that it has raised $6.4 million in Series A financing led by .406 Ventures, bringing the total raised to $9.7 million. Terbium Labs …
DROWN attack breaks TLS encryption, one-third of all HTTPS servers vulnerable
There’s a new attack that breaks the communication encryption provided by SSL and TLS and can therefore lead to theft of extremely sensitive data exchanged between users …
Linux Mint hack: Backdoored ISOs, stolen forums database
The web properties of the project developing Linux Mint have been compromised, and the attacker managed to put up a backdoored version of the distro for download for a little …
IRS warns of 400 percent surge in tax-related phishing emails
The number of tax related phishing and malware incidents has exploded this US tax season, the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has warned on Thursday. All in all, there has …
3-in-1 Android malware acts as ransomware, banking Trojan and infostealer
Why stop at asking ransom for encrypted files when you can also steal personal info, passwords, online banking credentials and credit card details, and then sell it or use it …
Year-old critical Magento flaw still exploited, payment info stolen
A whole year has passed since a critical e-shop hijacking flaw in the Magento CMS has been patched, but the vulnerability is still being exploited in attacks in the wild, …
What’s the real cost of a security breach?
The majority of business decision makers admit that their organisation will suffer an information security breach and that the cost of recovery could start from around $1 …
Loanbase hacked via WordPress hole, funds stolen
Popular international Bitcoin crowd-lending platform Loanbase has suffered a security breach, and is currently offline. The breach was discovered on Saturday and made public …