Security News

North Korean Hackers Hit Latin American Banks
2018-11-23 15:32

The North Korean hacking group know as Lazarus recently targeted financial institutions in Latin America, Trend Micro security researchers have discovered.  read more

Why e-commerce is winning: Most Americans now trust online retailers with their data
2018-11-21 15:45

Despite conflicting opinions about online privacy, customers choose to shop with companies that take reasonable security precautions.

Guess who's back, back again? China's back, hacking your friends: Beijing targets American biz amid tech tariff tiff
2018-11-09 03:20

Everything little thing Xi does is magic, everything Xi do just turns me intrusion alarms on Three years after the governments of America and China agreed not to hack corporations in each other's...

COSCO’s American Operations Hit With Crippling Ransomware Attack
2018-07-26 16:43

The Shanghai-based shipping giant's website and phones remained down two days after the attack.

Massive Breach at Data Broker Exactis Exposes Millions of Americans
2018-06-29 15:10

Security Researcher Vinny Troia has discovered another sensitive database exposed on the internet. This one uses Elasticsearch, which allows easy data searching over the internet. Elasticsearch...

Latin American ‘Biñeros’ Bond Over Fraudulent Purchase Scheme
2018-05-18 20:02

A type of card-not-present fraud is spreading throughout the Latin American underground, uniting groups of malefactors in a communal effort to perpetrate it as widely as possible.

Survey: Americans Spent $1.4B on Credit Freeze Fees in Wake of Equifax Breach
2018-03-22 14:08

Almost 20 percent of Americans froze their credit file with one or more of the big three credit bureaus in the wake of last year's data breach at Equifax, costing consumers an estimated $1.4...

Israel Hacked Kaspersky, Caught Russian Spies Hacking American Spies, But...
2017-10-11 05:18

The cold cyber war has just turned hot. According to a story published today by the New York Times, Israeli government hackers hacked into Kaspersky’s network in 2015 and caught Russian government...

Latin American ATM Thieves Turning to Hacking
2017-10-05 16:11

Thieves in Latin American countries are turning to Eastern European hackers to build ATM malware from scratch, according to a Virus Bulletin talk by researchers at Kaspersky Lab.

Whoops, Turns Out 2.5 Million More Americans Were Affected By Equifax Breach
2017-10-03 01:23

Equifax data breach was bigger than initially reported, exposing highly sensitive information of more Americans than previously revealed. Credit rating agency Equifax says an additional 2.5...