Luuuk Bank Fraud Campaign Nets €500K in One Week

A fraud campaign siphoned more than half a million dollars from a European bank over the course of a week earlier this year, researchers with Kaspersky Lab announced this week. The campaign, dubbed Luuuk, extracted €500,000 roughly $679,700 USD from 190 victims, mostly in Italy and Turkey, from...

Android Ransomware First to Encrypt Data on Mobile Devices

A strain of ransomware that encrypts data on Android mobile devices, the first of its kind, has spread to 13 countries since it was first spotted less than a month ago. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab today disclosed details on Pletor, an expensive Trojan that popped up on an underground forum selli...

FBI, European Authorities Go After GameOver Zeus Botnet

UPDATE–Law enforcement agencies in Europe and the United States, including Europol and the FBI, ran a coordinated takedown of the GameOver Zeus botnet on Friday, seizing servers and disrupting the botnet’s operation. Authorities say that the same botnet has been used to distribute the CryptoLocke...

Google Complies with 'Right to be Forgotten'

In compliance with a Court of Justice of the European Union ruling, Google has taken steps toward a program that will allow Europeans to request their name be removed from certain searches. The ruling under the European Data Protection Law provides Europeans with the “right to be forgotten.” In...

FBI raids BlackShades RAT Malware Customers in Europe and Australia

When it comes to crime, whether it’s an online or offline, FBI doesn't spare anyone. According to the French media reports and various announcements on underground forums by hacking groups, the FBI has started a large-scale operation of International raids with the help of local law enforcement...

CVE-2014-1886

The Edinburgh by Bus application for Android, when Adobe PhoneGap 2.9.0 or earlier is used, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code, and consequently access external-storage resources, by leveraging control over one of a number of "obscure Eastern European dating sites."...

Pony Botnet Steals $200,000, 700,000 Usernames, Passwords

Attackers leveraged a Pony botnet controller to not only siphon away a large batch of account credentials but also to make off with over $200,000 in Bitcoin and other virtual currencies over a four month span, according to researchers this week. It’s the second high profile instance of the Pony...

Germany to step up Counter Espionage Program against United States

Sooner or later it had to Happen! After whistle-blower Edward Snowden unfolded various spying operations that were controlled by the US Intelligence agency, it gave a reason to all other countries to start their own Counter-Surveillance programs. Last year in October, it was revealed that the...

Hackers stole money from European ATMs using Malware-loaded USB Device

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Chinese Hackers spied on European Diplomats during recent G20 meetings

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China APT Hackers Target Diplomats in Ke3chang Campaign

European diplomats and ministries of foreign affairs have been targeted during recent G20 meetings by Chinese-speaking hackers conducting espionage campaigns using malware to siphon secrets from compromised computers. The latest incidents came in August when spear phishing messages spiked with...

European Commission Urges U.S to Reform Surveillance Methods

The European Commission is urging the United States government to make some changes to the way it handles surveillance to help restore the trust in the relationship between the EU and the U.S. The commission is asking for the U.S. to promote privacy rights internationally, adopt the EU’s data...

wireshark: Invalid free in the DCP ETSI dissector (wnpa-sec-2013-41)

The dissectpft function in epan/dissectors/packet-dcp-etsi.c in the DCP ETSI dissector in Wireshark 1.6.x before 1.6.16, 1.8.x before 1.8.8, and 1.10.0 does not validate a certain fragment length value, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via a crafted...

2013 PCI SSC European Community Meeting Wrap-Up

Matt Getzleman - PCI Practice Director, Dan Fritsche - Director, Solution Validation, Andrew Barratt - Managing Director UK, and Brian Pennington - Regional Sales Director, discuss the recent PCI SSC Community Meeting in Nice, France...

EU Petition Seeks to Restrict Export of 'Digital Arms'

A Dutch member of the European parliament is supporting a grass-roots effort to restrict the export of surveillance software such as FinFisher and others, which are used by some governments and law-enforcement agencies to monitor their citizens’ activities. The effort, dubbed Stop Digital Arms, i...

NSA Director Alexander Denies Spying on Europeans

Intelligence officials appearing before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on Tuesday denied collecting the phone records of citizens in France, Spain and Italy, as recently reported by media outlets in those countries. “The assertions made by Le Monde of France, El Mundo of Spa...

Blackhole Exploit Kit author Paunch arrested

An out-of-the-blue tweet from a Dutch researcher kicked off an unprecedented 24-hour rumor mill yesterday concerning the arrest of Paunch, a hacker allegedly behind the notorious Blackhole Exploit Kit. The arrest, finally confirmed today by the head of the European Cybercrime Centre EC3, is likel...

New Police Ransomware 'Browlock' targeting users in US, Canada and UK

What would you do if a European Cybercrime Agency locked your PC until you paid a fine? A new Police Ransomware family dubbed Trojan:HTML/Browlock by F-secure Antivirus firm, known as Browlock, which spreads by tricking unsuspecting web surfers into believing the police are after them. Ransomware...

New Police Ransomware 'Browlock' targeting users in US, Canada and UK

What would you do if a European Cybercrime Agency locked your PC until you paid a fine? A new Police Ransomware family dubbed Trojan:HTML/Browlock by F-secure Antivirus firm, known as Browlock, which spreads by tricking unsuspecting web surfers into believing the police are after them. Ransomware...

PRISM like Surveillance system in France to intercept billions of communications

The US isn't the only western country with an Digital eye i.e PRISM like surveillance program, designed to monitor internet and phone communications. French is leading member at European Parliament and they voted to launch an in-depth inquiry against the US's based PRISM surveillance project. The...