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IT exec sets up fake biz, uses it to bill his bosses $6m for phantom gear, gets caught by Microsoft Word metadata
2020-01-04 01:24

A now-former senior IT exec has admitted conning his employer out of $6m - by setting up a fake tech services biz that billed his bosses for bogus services. Back in 2015, Kabbaj set up a shell company called Interactive Systems that was pitched as an IT services provider, but was in fact little more than a business name and a bank account.

218 million Words With Friends players lose data to hackers
2019-10-02 12:20

The serial hacker GnosticPlayers is claiming to have ransacked Zynga's user data - including names, emails and passwords.

Exclusive — Hacker Steals Over 218 Million Zynga 'Words with Friends' Gamers Data
2019-09-29 09:03

A Pakistani hacker who previously who made headlines earlier this year for selling almost a billion user records stolen from nearly 45 popular online services has now claimed to have hacked the...

Four words from Cisco to strike fear into the most hardened techies: Guest account as root
2019-09-26 12:44

Now is a very good time to patch your estate Cisco has doled out yet more security updates for its IOS and IOS XE network operating systems, which, we are obliged to remind you, is its scheduled...

Now Uncle Sam would like a word with Brit teen TalkTalk hacker about a huge crypto-coin heist
2019-09-26 12:02

Someone's popular! One of the teens behind the 2015 hack on UK telco TalkTalk has been indicted in the US over a huge cryptocurrency heist.…

Nine words to ruin your Monday: Emergency Internet Explorer patch amid in-the-wild attacks
2019-09-23 21:36

Update browser ASAP after Google gurus spot miscreants abusing bug to hijack PCs Microsoft today issued a rare emergency security update for Internet Explorer to address a critical flaw in the...

Employers Beware: Microsoft Word ‘Resume’ Phish Delivers Quasar RAT
2019-08-27 18:20

A round of phishing emails purports to be from job seekers - but actually uses a slew of detection evasion tactics to download malware on victim systems.

Asruex Malware Exploits Old vulnerabilities to Infect PDF, Word Docs
2019-08-23 17:23

A recently observed variant of the Asruex backdoor acts as an infector by targeting old vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office and Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x, Trend Micro reports.  read more

New Ursnif Variant Spreads Through Infected Word Documents
2019-08-09 15:03

Banking Trojan Designed to Steal Passwords and CredentialsA new variant of the Ursnif Trojan is targeting vulnerable systems in an attempt to steal banking passwords and other credentials. The...

Hacked With Words: Email Attack Sophistication Surges
2019-06-21 13:48

Barracuda's Michael Flouton on Social Engineering, Account Takeover and MoreThe early days of email attacks - so much noise in the form of malware, spam and links - have given way to attacks that...