World Cyber News

Google hacker found a critical flaw in Blizzard Games that expose millions of PCs to DNS Rebinding attacks The white hat hacker Tavis Ormandy discovered a severe flaw in Blizzard games that expose millions of PCs to DNS Rebinding attacks. The notorious white hat hacker Tavis Ormandy at the Google’s […]

Necurs, the world’s largest spam botnet, is currently sending millions of spam emails that push an obscure cryptocurrency named Swisscoin. Such spam emails are known as pump-and-dump, and the technique relies on sending large quantities of spam to drive interest up towards a particular penny stock. Spammers usually buy stock […]

A US hospital has decided to pay a ransom of 4 bitcoin to regain access to some 1,400 files locked by attackers. Hancock Health, a regional hospital based in Greenfield, Indiana, said they’d noticed the attack the evening of Thursday, January 11, when employees got locked out of systems and […]

A new version of the KillDisk disk-wiping malware has hit companies in the financial sector in Latin America, Trend Micro reported yesterday. Just like previous versions, KillDisk purposely deleted files but included a ransom note in an attempt to fool victims that they’ve been infected with ransomware and not a […]

I am seeing quite an aggressive phishing campaign against Bank of America arriving overnight UK time. They all pretend to come from Bank of America < BankofAmerica@customerloyalty.accounts.com > but are actually coming from various servers. I have posted details of 2 that I received. The emails are identical apart for […]

It was, literally and otherwise, more stick than carrot for some winners of a recent data-security contest in Taiwan, who must have been stuck for words after their prizes turned out to be malware-riddled USB sticks. The country’s Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) handed out 250 USB thumb drives to members […]

The small city of Belle Fourche, S.D. was hit with a ransomware attack late last week with the malware encrypting at least some files and demanding a ransom. The Black Hills Pioneer reported that at least two computers were locked up starting on January 4 with city workers eventually losing […]

Researchers at security firm McAfee have confirmed that social networks are being used to target North Korean dissidents with spyware An investigation into a spyware campaign against North Korean defectors, journalists and groups or individuals that help them, has revealed that the attacks are highly targeted. The investigation follows reports […]