Security News

Russian Citadel Malware Developer Gets 5-Year Sentence (InfoRiskToday)
2017-07-20 13:48

Notorious Banking Trojan Tied to 11 Million Infections, $500 Million in LossesRussian citizen Mark Vartanyan, aka "Kolypto," has been sentenced to serve five years in U.S. prison after he pleaded...

No evidence NotPetya developers obtained NSA exploits weeks before their public leak (ArsTechnica)
2017-06-30 14:13

Evidence ties people behind massive malware attack to mysterious Shadow Brokers group.

Websites built by freelance developers are plagued with security failures (Help Net Security)
2017-06-08 12:57

Websites developed by “budget” developers, without portfolios or references, tend to be plagued with critical security failures, research has shown. For this project, the Tripwire Vulnerability...

GnuPG developers start new fundraising effort (Help Net Security)
2017-06-07 22:37

Werner Koch and his team of GnuPG developers are asking for funding for the continued development of the popular free email and data encryption software. What is GnuPG, and why you should care...

Developer of Advanced 'Bachosens' Malware Fails to Hide Identity (Security Week)
2017-05-31 16:48

Symantec has been tracking the activities of a “lone wolf” hacker who has apparently developed a sophisticated piece of malware that he has used to access the systems of at least two major...