Security News > 2019 > February

Bangladesh Bank Sues to Recover Funds After Cyber Heist
2019-02-04 13:03

New York Fed Provides Technical Assistance Aimed at Recovering Lost $81 MillionBangladesh Bank, supported by the New York Fed, has filed a lawsuit in U.S. federal court to try and recover $81...

Security weaknesses in 5G, 4G and 3G could expose users’ locations
2019-02-04 13:02

Researchers have discovered security holes in 5G, 4G and 3G telephony protocols, which can expose a user's location.

Chrome’s hidden lookalike detection feature battles URL imposters
2019-02-04 12:41

Chrome now checks for misspellings of popular URLs and will display a link to the site that it thinks the user might have wanted to visit.

Cryptocurrency Firm Losses $145 Million After CEO Dies With Only Password
2019-02-04 12:33

QuadrigaCX, the largest bitcoin exchange in Canada, has claimed to have lost CAD 190 million (nearly USD 145 million) worth of cryptocurrency after the exchange lost access to its cold (offline)...

After Cyber Heist, Bangladesh Bank Sues to Recover Funds
2019-02-04 12:33

New York Fed Provides Technical Assistance Aimed at Recovering Lost $81 MillionBangladesh Bank, supported by the New York Fed, has filed a lawsuit in U.S. federal court to try and recover $81...

FBI burrowing into North Korea’s big bad botnet
2019-02-04 12:06

The FBI revealed that it joined the Joanap botnet and started chewing it up from the inside.

Selling fake likes and follows is illegal, rules New York
2019-02-04 11:02

A groundbreaking settlement in New York finds that selling fake likes and followers is illegal.

U.S. Energy Firm Fined $10 Million for Security Failures
2019-02-04 10:02

A US energy company, identified by some media reports as Duke Energy, received a $10 million fine from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) for nearly 130 violations of the...

Several Popular Beauty Camera Apps Caught Stealing Users' Photos
2019-02-04 09:48

Just because an app is available on Google Play Store doesn't mean that it is a legitimate app. Despite so many efforts by Google, some fake and malicious apps do sneak in and land millions of...

Monday review – the hot 28 stories of the week
2019-02-04 09:45

From the DNS outage that deleted users' Azure data to the Nest security cam hijacker, and everything in between. It's weekly roundup time.