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Article | 20/02/2013 Twitter calls for smarter password habits following Jeep, Burger King hacks
Twitter is urging its account holders to be smarter with their passwords following two recent attacks by hackers directed at Burger King and Jeep that...
Article | 14/02/2013 Spanish police break up €1 million ransomware crime ring
Spanish police say they've broken up a crime ring that extorted money from Internet users by accusing them of viewing child pornography or terrorist-r...
Article | 8/02/2013 Banking malware returns to basics to evade detection, Trusteer says
Financial malware authors are trying to evade new online banking security systems by returning to more traditional phishing-like credential stealing t...
Article | 4/02/2013 Dutch man sentenced in US to 12 years in credit card scam
A 22-year-old Dutch man who sold credit card details online was sentenced on Friday to 12 years in a US prison in a fraud prosecutors alleged caused m...
Article | 17/01/2013 Shylock banking malware updated to spread via Skype, researchers say
The Shylock home banking malware has been updated with new functionality that allows it to spread automatically using the popular Skype Voice-over-IP ...
Article | 9/01/2013 Banks crack down on cyber-based account takeovers
U.S. banks and their customers are doing a better job of protecting themselves against cyberattacks that result in thieves taking over commercial acco...
Article | 8/01/2013 Romanian sentenced to 21 months over payment card hacks
A 27-year-old Romanian man was sentenced Monday to 21 months in prison after admitting he was part of a group that stole payment card data from hundre...
Article | 17/12/2012 Improved Carberp banking malware will target North American banks, Group-IB says
The creators of Carberp, a banking Trojan program used exclusively in Russian-speaking countries, have started to sell an improved version of the malw...
Article | 14/12/2012 SMS stealing apps uploaded to Google Play by Carberp banking malware gang
Several malicious Android apps designed to steal mobile transaction authentication numbers (mTANs) sent by banks to their customers over SMS (Short Me...
Article | 13/12/2012 Project Blitzkrieg e-banking heist is a credible threat, McAfee says
Project Blitzkrieg, a coordinated attack against U.S. banking customers allegedly planned for the spring of 2013, is a real and credible threat, secur...
Article | 12/12/2012 US law enforcement busts cybercrime rings with help from Facebook
U.S. law enforcement agencies with the help of Facebook have arrested 10 persons from various countries in connection with international cybercrime ri...
Article | 11/12/2012 Gang responsible for multimillion-dollar online auction fraud busted in Romania
Romanian authorities dismantled a cybercriminal ring that stole an estimated US$4 million from U.S. citizens by posting offers for non-existent items ...
Article | 11/12/2012 Dexter malware infects point-of-sale systems worldwide, researchers say
Researchers from Israel-based IT security firm Seculert have uncovered a custom-made piece of malware that infected hundreds of point-of-sale (PoS) sy...
Article | 5/12/2012 Law enforcement agencies arrest six in online auto sales fraud
Police in Romania, the Czech Republic, the U.K. and Canada have arrested six Romanian citizens accused of advertising and selling nonexistent automobi...
Article | 30/11/2012 Microsoft joins malware, ad teams to fight click fraud
Microsoft is linking malicious software analysts with online advertising fraud experts in an effort to disrupt click fraud, a scam where advertisers p...