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Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Bank Payment Notification Email Messages on April 4, 2014
Low Alert ID: 29815 First Published: 2013 June 27 13:34 GMT Last Updated: 2014 April 7 11:33 GMT Version: 78 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a bank payment transfer notification for the recipient. The text in the...
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Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Bank Payment Transfer Notification Email Messages on September 25, 2014
Low Alert ID: 29776 First Published: 2013 June 25 14:23 GMT Last Updated: 2014 September 25 19:02 GMT Version: 49 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a bank payment transfer notification for the recipient. The text in...
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California issued cease and desist order against Bitcoin Foundation
The Bitcoin Foundation has received a cease-and-desist letter from the California Department of Financial Institutions, which oversees banks, credit unions, and other financial organizations operating in the state. Jon Matonis, who is a board member at the Foundation, revealed the letter on...
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California issued cease and desist order against Bitcoin Foundation
The Bitcoin Foundation has received a cease-and-desist letter from the California Department of Financial Institutions, which oversees banks, credit unions, and other financial organizations operating in the state. Jon Matonis, who is a board member at the Foundation, revealed the letter on...
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65 Sites Compromised in ZeroAccess Trojan Attacks
As many as 65 websites have been compromised in an attack that has snared another Washington, D.C.-area media website as well as a number of travel and leisure sites. While the sites aren’t topically related, they’re all hosting advertisements injected with malicious code hosted on...
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Cybercriminals using hijacked Cloud hosting accounts for targeted attacks
US Cloud hosting providers are constantly targeted by cyber crime according the revelations of two malware researchers Mary Landesman, a senior security researcher at Cisco Systems, and Dave Monnier security expert at Team Cymru explained during the 2013 Gartner Security and Risk Management...
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Yahoo, Bing Results Directing to Bitcoin Phishing Site
It looks like phishers have started poisoning Bing and Yahoo search results in hopes of duping users of the Bitcoin exchange site MtGox.com into giving away their log-in credentials. KrebsonSecurity.com reported that both the search engines have been redirecting unsuspecting clickers to MtPox.com.....
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Cybercriminals using hijacked Cloud hosting accounts for targeted attacks
US Cloud hosting providers are constantly targeted by cyber crime according the revelations of two malware researchers Mary Landesman, a senior security researcher at Cisco Systems, and Dave Monnier security expert at Team Cymru explained during the 2013 Gartner Security and Risk Management...
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Feds Bust Ukrainian Cybercrime Ring
Federal officials charged eight members of a Ukrainian cybercrime ring this week after they allegedly tried to illegally access the networks of a number of financial institutions including Citibank, JP Morgan Chase, TD Ameritrade and PayPal, along with the U.S. Department of Defense’s Finance and.....
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Operation b54 Knocks 1,000+ Citadel Botnets Offline
UPDATE – Calling it the company’s “most aggressive” botnet operation operation to date, Microsoft has joined with the FBI for a massive disruption of the Citadel botnet. More than 1,400 individual botnets associated with the Citadel malware affecting more than five million people in total were...
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Attack on FIS More Widespread Than Reported
A previously reported attack against Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) two years ago was actually much more widespread than initially reported according to a document released to banks from the FDIC late last month. Compounding matters, as of the FDIC’s audit FIS had not taken the...
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Peer-to-Peer Botnets Grow Fivefold
The resiliency of peer-to-peer botnets is too good to pass up for fraudsters and spam mavens tired of watching expensive and centralized command and control infrastructures be taken down by authorities and technology companies. Botnets such as ZeroAccess, TDL4/TDSS and Zeus v3 have shown the way...
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Peer-to-Peer Botnet Takedowns a Challenge
The FBI, Justice Department and technology companies have had success shutting down botnets that rely on a centralized infrastructure and command and control servers to communicate with bots, steal data or send malicious commands. Peer-to-peer botnets, however, have proven more difficult to take...
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LulzSec hacker Jeremy Hammond pleads guilty to Stratfor attack, could face 10 years in prison
A computer hacker linked to the group known as Anonymous and LulzSec pleaded guilty on Tuesday to breaking into Stratfor, a global intelligence company. Hammond, 28, was arrested last March and charged with hacking into the computers of Stratfor. Jeremy Hammond and other members of AntiSec, stole.....
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Liberty Reserve Domains Seized, Money Laundering Charged
Federal law enforcement officials in the United States seized domains belonging to the Costa Rican-based Liberty Reserve, a payment processor, money transfer service, and digital currency exchange reportedly used by criminals as a means for laundering money. Liberty Reserve was also the subject of....
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LulzSec hacker Jeremy Hammond pleads guilty to Stratfor attack, could face 10 years in prison
A computer hacker linked to the group known as Anonymous and LulzSec pleaded guilty on Tuesday to breaking into Stratfor, a global intelligence company. Hammond, 28, was arrested last March and charged with hacking into the computers of Stratfor. Jeremy Hammond and other members of AntiSec, stole.....
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Citadel Banking Malware Targets Payza Payment Service
A new variant of Citadel malware is making the rounds that is targeting Payza, a money transfer service popular all over the world, especially in developing nations that are under-serviced when it comes to accessing the Internet. The payment processing company bills itself as “your money’s gateway....
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Click-Fraud Falls as Microsoft Fights ZeroAccess Malware
Microsoft said actions it has taken to stymie the ZeroAccess malware have resulted in a drop off in click-fraud traffic. Microsoft Malware Protection Center researchers Tommy Blizard and Nikola Livic made the observation based on a precipitous drop-off in click-traffic on Microsoft’s extended...
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Bitcoin mining malware found in E-Sports Entertainment (ESEA) software
The Bitcoin mining rig is becoming a popular alternative to people who want an easy way to earn the digital currency. All you have to do is plug the hardware that specializes in Bitcoin mining and run its customized software. After that, you can sit back and relax as it mines the digital currency.....
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Bitcoin mining malware found in E-Sports Entertainment (ESEA) software
The Bitcoin mining rig is becoming a popular alternative to people who want an easy way to earn the digital currency. All you have to do is plug the hardware that specializes in Bitcoin mining and run its customized software. After that, you can sit back and relax as it mines the digital currency.....
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Google pays $31,336 bounty to hacker for reporting critical vulnerabilities in Chrome
Google has fixed a series of serious vulnerabilities in its Chrome OS, including three high-risk bugs that could be used for code execution on vulnerable machines. Bug bounties is the cash prizes offered by open source communities to anyone who finds key software bugs have been steadily on the...
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Google pays $31,336 bounty to hacker for reporting critical vulnerabilities in Chrome
Google has fixed a series of serious vulnerabilities in its Chrome OS, including three high-risk bugs that could be used for code execution on vulnerable machines. Bug bounties is the cash prizes offered by open source communities to anyone who finds key software bugs have been steadily on the...
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Malware that turns computers into Bitcoin miners
Researchers from Kaspersky Lab have discovered a new spam message campaign being transmitted via Skype contains malware capable of using an infected computer to mine for Bitcoins. The malware, identified as Trojan.Win32.Jorik.IRCbot.xkt. Bitcoin is a non-governmental, fully-digital currency based.....
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Malware that turns computers into Bitcoin miners
Researchers from Kaspersky Lab have discovered a new spam message campaign being transmitted via Skype contains malware capable of using an infected computer to mine for Bitcoins. The malware, identified as Trojan.Win32.Jorik.IRCbot.xkt. Bitcoin is a non-governmental, fully-digital currency based.....
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Skype Malware Stealing Victims' Processing Power to Mine Bitcoins
Bitcoin may still be a virtual unknown quantity for most people, but the digital currency has not escaped the notice of attackers, many of whom are turning their attention to finding ways to use the system for their own gains. The attacks against Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox and hack of Instawallet...
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Bitcoin's Wallet Service Instawallet Hacked, suspended indefinitely
The digital currency Bitcoin has suffered yet another hack. Bitcoin wallet site Instawallet has been taken offline after a security compromise, has suspended its service indefinitely. Instawallet didn't say in a notice on its website how many bitcoins were stolen after hackers fraudulently...
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DDoS Attack, Database Breach Take Down Two Bitcoin Services
As with any asset of monetary value, once said asset reaches a noteworthy level, cybercriminals’ interest is going to pique. Such is the current situation with virtual currency Bitcoin, which hit a high of $142 yesterday and the value of all Bitcoins in circulation has soared to more than $1...
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Bitcoin's Wallet Service Instawallet Hacked, suspended indefinitely
The digital currency Bitcoin has suffered yet another hack. Bitcoin wallet site Instawallet has been taken offline after a security compromise, has suspended its service indefinitely. Instawallet didn't say in a notice on its website how many bitcoins were stolen after hackers fraudulently...
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Hackers Compromise The War Z Forum, Game Databases
Hackers compromised the forum and game database of the massively multiplayer online game, The War Z, forcing the game’s producer OP Productions to temporarily take the game and its forum offline. In a security alert issued yesterday, OP Productions informed The War Z players of the breach and...
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[Wireshark v1.9.2] World’s Foremost Network Protocol Analyzer
Wireshark is the world’s foremost network protocol analyzer. It lets you capture and interactively browse the traffic running on a computer network. It is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions. Wireshark development thrives thanks to the...
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Brief description: PayPal is the more secure an online payment tool, however, under certain conditions, you can bypass PayPal's digital certificate and payment password to make payments. Black produced with the means of stealing money, it can be Nisshin million gold. Detailed description: Alipay...
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Russian underground vSkimmer Botnet targeting payment world
A new botnet emerged from underground and is menacing payment world, the cyber threat dubbed vSkimmer come from Russia according revelation of McAfee security firm. The security expert Chintan Shah wrote on a blog post that during monitoring of Russian underground forum found a discussion about a.....
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