Cybercriminal Gang behind $100million theft busted

ehackingnews Monday, May 20, 2019 5:15:00 AM CEST | info [other]

The gang used an extremely powerful GozNym banking malware to infect the computers which allowed them to steal the user’s bank login details, it involves "more than 41,000 victims, primarily businesses and their financial institutions," Europol said. The malware GozNym is a combination of two other malware — Gozi and Nymaim....

Facebook Bans Israeli PR Firm For Political Manipulation

MoroccoWorldNews Friday, May 17, 2019 6:51:00 PM CEST | info [other]

In the wake of fake news and directed cyber warfare, the technology powerhouse is promising more drastic measures to counter political manipulation. Rabat – Facebook is taking preventive measures to preempt ill-intentioned exploitation of its users’ personal data....

Huawei Founder Sees Little Effect From US Sanctions

voanews Sunday, May 19, 2019 2:26:00 AM CEST | info [other]

Huawei Technologies' founder and chief executive said Saturday that the growth of the Chinese tech giant "may slow, but only slightly," because of recent U.S. restrictions. In remarks to the Japanese press and reported by Nikkei Asian Review , Ren Zhengfei reiterated that the Chinese telecom equipment maker had not violated any law....

After 2 Years, WannaCry Remains a Threat (InfoRiskToday)

sans-isc Sunday, May 19, 2019 5:01:00 PM CEST | info [other]

It all started two years ago this month. See Also: Webinar | The Future of Adaptive Authentication in Financial Services Over the course of several days in May 2017, WannaCry tore a path of online destruction throughout 150 countries across the globe, damaging the IT infrastructure of several major.......

Instagram Hackers Forum Gets Hacked by Other Hackers

sputniknews Sunday, May 19, 2019 2:48:00 AM CEST | info [other]

OGUSERS, also known as OGU by its members, is a marketplace forum ostensibly launched to trade “OG” usernames, as in: unique, short, and rare usernames, and is also notoriously known to be a forum for hackers who specialize in breaking into other people’s accounts, taking control of them, and then selling them with prices ranging up to $5,000....

What is malware? How to prevent, detect and recover from it

ITSecurityNews2 Friday, May 17, 2019 1:23:00 PM CEST | info [other]

News and articles about cyber security, information security, vulnerabilities, exploits, patches, releases, software, features, hacks, laws, spam, viruses, malware, trojans. Malware definition. Malware, short for malicious software, is a blanket term for viruses, worms, trojans and other harmful.......

EU approves new cyber sanctions regime

cyberBingNews Sunday, May 19, 2019 11:26:00 PM CEST | info [other]

The European Union will directly penalise computer hackers after governments agreed on Friday a new mechanism to target individuals anywhere in the world, freezing their assets in the bloc and banning them from entry. The new powers follow a diplomatic push by Britain and the Netherlands --.......

Singapore opens new maritime cybersecurity operations centre

CyberReconnaissance Monday, May 20, 2019 4:13:00 AM CEST | info [other]

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) has officially opened a Maritime Cybersecurity Operations Centre (MSOC) on Thursday to boost cyber defence readiness in the face of rising threats from cyber-attacks. The MSOC, housed and operated by ST Engineering at its electronic hub, conducts.......

Stack Overflow hacker went undetected for a week

brica Saturday, May 18, 2019 6:32:00 AM CEST | info [other]

The hacker who breached Stack Overflow last week managed to access data on user accounts, the company said today in an update on its investigation into a security breach it disclosed last night. The update comes to shed some light into what happened on the company's servers last week, after Stack.......

Who is Responsible for the Security of Your Website?

ITSecurityNews2 Friday, May 17, 2019 9:49:00 PM CEST | info [other]

News and articles about cyber security, information security, vulnerabilities, exploits, patches, releases, software, features, hacks, laws, spam, viruses, malware, trojans. On a daily basis at Sucuri, we hear things like: “My host takes care of my website security....