Security News

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

Russian Financial Cybercriminal Gets Over 9 Years In U.S. Prison (The Hackers News)
2017-07-11 10:01

A 29-year-old Russian-born, Los Angeles resident has been sentenced to over nine years in prison for running botnets of half a million computers and stealing and trafficking tens of thousands of...

Industrial Companies Targeted by Nigerian Cybercriminals (Security Week)
2017-06-16 13:00

Industrial companies from around the world have been targeted in phishing attacks believed to have been launched by cybercriminals located in Nigeria, Kaspersky Lab reported on Thursday. read more