Citing a report from the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), the White House said on Friday that cyberattacks cost the US economy somewhere between $57 billion to $109 billion in 2016. The estimate includes losses from a wide variety of activities, such as DDoS attacks, data breaches, ransom demands, downed infrastructure, lost […]

Hacker Group Makes $3 Million by Installing Monero Miners on Jenkins Servers A criminal organization has made $3.4 million by compromising Jenkins servers and installing a Monero cryptocurrency miner dubbed JenkinsMiner. “The perpetrator, allegedly of Chinese origin, has been running the XMRig miner on many versions of Windows,and has already secured him over $3 million […]

The Mirai Botnet Is Attacking Again… And the spinoff bots – and all their command and control hostnames buried in the morass of digital data – are hilarious. The Mirai botnet is kind of like Madonna. They both were huge once. Then the adoring public shifted their attention to younger, newer […]

Two Muscovites have been sentenced to years in prison for their roles in the biggest data breach conspiracy ever prosecuted in the United States. Three co-conspirators are still at large. Vladimir Drinkman, 37 and Dmitriy Smilianets, 34, had previously pleaded guilty for their roles in the conspiracy to commit wire […]

Heartland Payment Systems: remember that decade-old breach? What was then the sixth-largest payments processor in the US announced back in 2009 that its processing systems had been breached the year before. Within days, it had been classified as the biggest ever criminal breach of card data. One estimate claimed 100 million cards and […]