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 […]

Last year, we saw the Fanta SDK malware target Russian bank Sberbank users and employ unique defensive measures. Now, another bank malware family has appeared, targeting even more Russian banks while using new and evolved obfuscation techniques. This family is named FakeBank, and so far the related samples we have […]