Security News > 2016 > February

Metel hackers thrash banks in infinite ATM withdrawal night raids (The Register)
2016-02-09 19:01

Microsoft researchers break the homomorphic encryption speed barrier (The Register)
2016-02-09 19:01

Vitaly Kamluk on the Adwind RAT (Threatpost)
2016-02-09 18:30

Mike Mimoso talks to Kaspersky Lab researcher Vitaly Kamluk who was critical in the discovery of the latest version of the cross-platform Adwind RAT.

Medical Device, Health Care Security Continues to Ail (Threatpost)
2016-02-09 18:19

Kaspersky Lab researcher Sergey Lozhkin was able to turn a few simple hacks into extensive access inside a Moscow hospital network.

Russian hackers used malware to manipulate the Dollar/Ruble exchange rate (Help Net Security)
2016-02-09 15:42

Russian-language hackers have managed to break into Russian regional bank Energobank, infect its systems, and gain unsanctioned access to its trading system terminals, which allowed them to manipulat...

Oracle pushes out emergency fix for Java SE (Help Net Security)
2016-02-09 14:03

Oracle has patched a vulnerability (CVE-2016-0603) in Java SE (Standard Edition) 6, 7 or 8 on the Windows platform, which could be exploited by attackers looking for ways to completely compromise a ta...

Info on 20,000 FBI and 9,000 DHS employees leaked following alleged DoJ hack (Help Net Security)
2016-02-09 12:58

On Sunday, Motherboard reported that a hacker contacted them and claimed to have hacked into a US Department of Justice (DoJ) computer, exfiltrated 200GB of files, as well as several databases suppose...

Dyre gang taken down by Russian authorities (Help Net Security)
2016-02-09 10:47

Dyre (aka Dyreza), one of the most widespread and effective financial Trojans to crop up in the last few years, is currently not an active threat. In fact, spam campaigns distributing the Trojan st...

Power Grid Honeypot Puts Face on Attacks (Threatpost)
2016-02-09 10:36

Researchers from MalCrawler built a honeypot mimicking an energy management system at the heart of a power grid, exposing attackers’ behavior once they have access to critical infrastructure systems.

Poseidon APT Group Identified As First Portuguese-Speaking Campaign (Threatpost)
2016-02-09 09:30

Today at the Kaspersky Lab Security Analyst Summit, researchers disclosed details on the Poseidon APT group, a group of hackers who blackmail targets into a fake business relationship where they...