World Cyber News

« “Some 9,000 email accounts, including those belonging to Theresa May and other cabinet ministers, were subjected to a sustained attack on June 23. Ninety accounts were compromised.” “Whitehall officials admitted it was inevitable that the hackers had obtained sensitive material,” the Times reported. The investigation is still ongoing, for this […]

A serious flaw has been identified in Adobe Flash Player, which can deliver FinFisher spyware, according to security experts. Adobe systems already issued a warning note about the newly identified flaw, which can allow execution of a remote code. The flaw was identified by security firm Kaspersky Lab after the company […]

Researchers from security firm Positive Technologies warns of 4G/5G Wireless Networks as vulnerable as WiFi and putting smart-cities at risk The Internet of Things (IoT) presents many new opportunities and some different challenges. The vast number of devices makes it very expensive to connect everything with traditional network cabling and in many […]

Software developers and malware authors share a desire to work smart, not hard In the software development world, engineers frequently use ready-made code for various tasks, whether it involves copying a snippet from Stack Overflow, taking a library from Github, or reusing a company’s own rich, legacy code base. On […]

In 2015, Israeli government hackers saw something suspicious in the computers of a Moscow-based cybersecurity firm: hacking tools that could only have come from the National Security Agency. Israel notified the NSA, where alarmed officials immediately began a hunt for the breach, according to people familiar with the matter, who […]

 North Korean hackers allegedly stole classified military documents from a South Korean Defense Ministry database in September 2016, according to Rhee Cheol-hee, a member of South Korea’s National Assembly. Rhee, who belongs to the ruling Democratic Party and sits on the Defense Committee, told CNN on Tuesday that he received […]

3 vulnerable WordPress plugins affecting 21,000 websites   Zero-day vulnerabilities are blessing for cybercriminals the most and this time around hackers have managed to exploit not one or two but three of them. Security firm Wordfence reported that the three exploited vulnerabilities have affected WordPress plugins but the attack vector has been fixed […]

Equifax data breach was bigger than initially reported, exposing highly sensitive information of more Americans than previously revealed. Credit rating agency Equifax says an additional 2.5 million U.S. consumers were also impacted by the massive data breach the company disclosed last month, bringing the total possible victims to 145.5 million […]

Ransomware has “eclipsed” most other global cybercrime threats over the past 12 months, with critical infrastructure (CNI) particularly vulnerable and urgent work needed to combat social engineering, according to Europol. The regional police network claimed in its 2017 Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment(IOCTA) that the first half of 2017 saw […]

Each year, Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) produces the Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA), its flagship strategic report on ongoing developments and emerging threats in cybercrime — threats that impact governments, businesses and citizens in the EU. There are three anti-cybercrime operational action plans under the European Multidisciplinary Platform […]