A vulnerability in the iOS Camera App could be exploited by hackers to redirect users to a malicious website, the issue affects the built-in QR code reader. The iOS Camera App is affected by a bug that could be exploited by hackers to redirect users to a malicious website, the issue resides […]
L’AUTEUR D’UN CYBERBRAQUAGE DE BANQUES À 1 MILLIARD D’EUROS A ÉTÉ ARRÊTÉ
Europol a annoncé l’arrestation en Espagne du n°1 d’un gang de cybervoleurs qui aurait volé, via des logiciels malveillants, près d’un milliard d’euros à une centaine de banques dans 40 pays. Le groupe opérait depuis plus de cinq ans. Le « cerveau » ukrainien d’un gang de cybervoleurs qui aurait volé près […]
Preventing the Next Ransomware Attack
2018 is quickly moving by us, and while we have yet to see an attack on the scale of 2017’s WannaCry or NotPetya, it’s clear that the adversaries are not letting up on their mission to line their pockets at our expense. Ransomware has dominated the headlines for the last two years, while […]
Police arrest members of cybercrime gang
ATM jackpot gang is thought to have infiltrated over 100 financial firms in 40 countries costing banks more than one billion dollars. Police say that they have arrested the head of a computer crime collective, alleged to have stolen millions of dollars from banks around the world after infecting them […]
GoScanSSH Malware spread avoiding Government and Military networks
Security experts at Cisco Talos discovered a new piece of malware dubbed GoScanSSH that was being used to compromise SSH servers exposed online. Security researchers at Cisco Talos have discovered a new piece of malware dubbed GoScanSSH that was being used to compromise SSH servers exposed online. The malicious code was written in […]
Britain Backs US Hacking Allegations Against Iranians
The British government says it concurs with charges contained in an indictment announced Friday by the U.S. Department of Justice against multiple Iranians. The indictment, unsealed Friday, charges nine Iranian nationals with stealing more than 31 terabytes of data from 320 universities in 22 countries – including 144 U.S. institutions […]
Law enforcement arrested the head of the Carbanak gang that stole 1 billion from banks
The head of the crime ring behind the Carbanak gang that since 2013 targeted banks worldwide has been arrested in Spain. The mastermind suspected of stealing about £870m (€1bn) in a bank cyber heist has been arrested in Spain. The man is suspected to be the kingpin of the crime ring behind the Carbanak […]
MOZILLA TESTS DNS OVER HTTPS: MEETS SOME PRIVACY PUSHBACK
The Mozilla Foundation is testing a new mechanism for securing domain name server traffic that uses the encrypted HTTPS channel. It is an attempt to speed up the internet, reduce the threat of man-in-the-middle attacks and keep prying eyes from monitoring what users do online. Starting in the next several […]
Facebook collected call and SMS data from Android users if not explicitly forbidden
After the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook made the headlines again, the company collected users’ Android call and SMS metadata for years. The Cambridge Analytica case it raised the discussion about the power of social networks and the possibility of their abuse for the conditioning of political activities. The non-professionals have discovered how important their […]
Do you have what it takes to withstand modern DDoS attacks?
As the latest record DDoS attack hit GitHub and threatened to overwhelm its edge network, the popular Git-repository hosting service quickly switched to routing the attack traffic to their DDoS mitigation service. In the end, GitHub ended up completely unavailable for five minutes and intermittently unavailable for four. But […]