Security News

Five key trends to watch in 2018 as cybercriminals continue to innovate
2017-12-04 13:00

The McAfee Labs 2018 Threats Predictions Report identifies five key trends to watch in 2018. This year’s report focuses on the evolution of ransomware from traditional to new applications, the...

Russian Cybercriminal Gets Another Prison Sentence
2017-12-01 09:18

Roman Valeryevich Seleznev, the son of a Russian lawmaker, has been handed another prison sentence in the United States for his role in a massive cybercrime ring. read more

Cybercriminals Infiltrating E-Mail Networks to Divert Large Customer Payments
2017-11-07 12:37

There's a new criminal tactic involving hacking an e-mail account of a company that handles high-value transactions and diverting payments. Here it is in real estate: The scam generally works like...

Cybercriminals focus on the shipping and cloud storage sectors
2017-10-23 13:00

The Anti-Phishing Working Group’s latest report found upticks in phishing attacks against companies in the Logistics & Shipping as well Cloud Storage & File Hosting sectors, mounted by cyber gangs...

Inside the Middle Eastern and North African cybercriminal underground
2017-10-10 19:00

Trend Micro researchers investigated the Middle Eastern and North African cybercriminal underground, and found that prices for malware and hacking tools are generally a bit more expensive than in...

Cybercriminals increasingly focusing on credential theft
2017-09-29 15:30

Criminal tactics used to access user credentials are growing in prevelance, and that a record 47 percent of all malware is new or zero day, and thus able to evade signature-based antivirus...

Cybercriminals deploying assortment of banking Trojans and ransomware
2017-09-18 20:27

Check Point revealed that banking trojans were extensively used by cybercriminals during August, with three variants appearing in the company’s latest Global Threat Impact Index. The Zeus, Ramnit...

Creator of Nanocore RAT Pleads Guilty to Aiding CyberCriminals (The Hackers News)
2017-07-26 23:54

A programmer who was arrested in March this year—not because he hacked someone, but because he created and distributed a remote access software that helped cyber criminals—has finally pleaded...

Let's Encrypt Wildcard Certificates a 'Boon' for Cybercriminals, Expert Says (Security Week)
2017-07-12 16:27

To speed up the adoption of HTTPS, free and open Certificate Authority (CA) Let’s Encrypt will start issuing wildcard certificates as of January 2018. read more