World Cyber News

Essentially every global domain is vulnerable to phishing and domain name spoofing. A new report incorporates data from Agari, revealing that 90 percent of its customers have been targeted by domain name fraud. Insight from the Farsight Security indicates that less one percent of all domains are authenticated and protected […]

RSA survey reveals consumers falsifying data online to avoid sharing personal information with companies, while 78% say company reputation relating to data and privacy impacts their buying decisions. According to a global online survey commissioned by RSA, a global cyber security solutions business, 41% of consumers admit to intentionally falsifying […]

Swiss telecoms giant Swisscom has admitted that it suffered a serious security breach in the autumn of 2017 that saw the theft of contact details of approximately 800,000 customers – most of whom were mobile subscribers. Data exposed during the breach included: Customers’ first and last names Customers’ home addresses […]

Security researchers have discovered a custom-built piece of malware that’s wreaking havoc in Asia for past several months and is capable of performing nasty tasks, like password stealing, bitcoin mining, and providing hackers complete remote access to compromised systems. Dubbed Operation PZChao, the attack campaign discovered by the security researchers […]

Adobe rolled out an emergency patch that fixed two critical remote execution vulnerabilities, including the CVE-2018-4878 flaw exploited by North Korea. Adobe has rolled out an emergency patch to address two Flash player vulnerabilities after North Korea’s APT group was spotted exploiting one of them in targeted attacks. Last week, […]

US authorities have made arrests of several suspects they believe are behind the first ATM jackpotting incidents in the US. Law enforcement officials arrested four suspects last October and November, and apprehended another two at the end of last month, January 2018. Investigators believe these six men have infected ATMs […]

US authorities have charged two men with bank fraud after they allegedly used malware to jackpot ATMs and empty the machines of cash. Last week it emerged that the US Secret Service has been warning banks and ATM manufacturers that jackpotting has finally hit American shores. The scam usually sees […]

The FBI has issued an alert that scammers are now sending out phishing emails that purport to come from the agency’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). Having received “numerous victim complaints”, the FBI’s authority on internet scams has identified four different versions of the scam. In one of the variations, […]