World Cyber News

A new Android malware is reportedly targeting over 232 banking applications, including a few banks in India. This was discovered by the internet and cybersecurity firm Quick Heal, which identified the Android Banking Trojan imitating banking mobile apps around the world. It includes major Indian banks apps from SBI, HDFC, […]

SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean financial authorities on Monday said they are inspecting six local banks that offer virtual currency accounts to institutions, amid concerns the increasing use of such assets could lead to a surge in crime.   The joint inspection by the Financial Services Commission (FSC) and Financial […]

Ancestry.com Responds Well To RootsWeb Data Breach The popular expert Troy Hunt notified the Ancestry.com security team of an unsecured file on a RootsWeb server containing “email addresses/username and password combinations as well as usernames from a RootsWeb.com server”.   When you think of personal security questions, you might think […]

The allegations that Russia hacked the 2016 elections in the United States are known to many but now biometric data of millions of American citizens may or may not be at risk of being compromised as software used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and 18,000 other […]

All ATMs that are still running on Microsoft’s 16-year-old Windows XP operating system are at the risk of getting hacked easily, as the OS is no longer supported by the Redmond giant except for emergency security patches (for instance, patch blocking the WannaCry ransomware released this year). An employee of Russian […]

The next in the never ending series of malware downloaders from the Necurs botnet is an email with the subject of   Outstanding Statement  pretending to come from Prime Express Oldham <sales62@primeexpressuk.com>  ( random numbers after sales) delivering Globeimposter ransomware They use email addresses and subjects that will entice, persuade, scare or shock  a […]

Satori IoT Botnet Exploits Zero-Day to Zombify Huawei Routers Although the original creators of the infamous IoT malware Mirai have already been arrested and sent to jail, the variants of the notorious botnet are still in the game due to the availability of its source code on the Internet. Hackers […]