World Cyber News

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 […]

Cyber criminals are increasingly accessing ATM machines through the banks’ networks, with squads of money mules standing by ready to pick up the stolen cash, Europe’s policing agency warned Tuesday. « The malware being used has evolved significantly and the scope and scale of the attacks have grown proportionately, » said Steven […]

Sonic Drive-In, a fast-food chain with nearly 3,600 locations across 45 U.S. states, has acknowledged a breach affecting an unknown number of store payment systems. The ongoing breach may have led to a fire sale on millions of stolen credit and debit card accounts that are now being peddled in […]

Trojan uses NSA EtneralBlue exploit to hijack computers for new ransomware campaign targeting unpatched systems. Hackers behind the Retefe malware have added the NSA EternalBlue exploit to the malware to help them spread the malware beyond the initial infection and into a victim network. Researchers at Proofpoint said that the […]

Equifax confirmed the attack vector used in its data breach to be CVE-2017-5638, a vulnerability patched last March 2017 via S2-045. The vulnerability was exploited to gain unauthorized access to highly sensitive data of approximately 143 million U.S. and 400,000 U.K. customers, as well as 100,000 Canadian consumers. This vulnerability was first disclosed in March, almost immediately followed by publicly […]