FBI Busts Hacker who blackmails 350 women for stripping on camera

The FBI Tuesday announced the arrest of Karen 'Gary' Kazaryan, a 27-year old man, who is said to have blackmailed more than 350 women after convincing them to strip off in front of their webcams has been arrested in the US. He was arrested in Glendale, California on Tuesday after being indicted o...

SMS Extortion Trojan Targeting Apple Machines

In yet another blow to the tenuous false sense of security among Apple users, the Russian antivirus firm Dr. Web has uncovered what it claims is a first-of-its-kind fake installer Trojan targeting Mac machines and extorting their users with SMS fraud. Trojan.SMSSend.3666 is the Mac variant within...

Australian medical centre infected with Ransomware Malware demanding $4000 to Unlock

A Gold Coast, Australian medical centre computers are infected with some ransom malware by a group of Russian hackers. The hackers encrypted the practice's patient database, demanding payment of $4000 for the files to be decrypted. "Cyber criminals based mainly throughout Eastern Europe look for...

FBI Warns of New Twist to Reveton, Citadel Malware Scams

The cybercrime group behind the Citadel malware and Reveton ransomware has upped the stakes with a new extortion technique, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center said today. Reveton scams have now co-opted the Internet Crime Complaint Center with a new fake warning to users whose computers ha...

IAEA Server Breached, Scientists' Email Addresses Spilled

The International Atomic Energy Agency has confirmed to Reuters that one of its decommissioned servers had been accessed and had data stolen from it. The admission from the United Nations’ nuclear regulatory arm came in response to the publication of some 170 email addresses, apparently belonging...

Ransomware Scams Netting Criminals Up To $33,000 a Day

Ransomware pays. A lot. These extortion scams, in which infected computers are essentially locked down by malware and electronic payment is demanded for a supposed cure, can net the criminal behind the scam as much as $33,000 per day. Symantec studied 16 variants of independently developed...

Amanda Todd blackmailer Kody Maxson outed another pedophile blackmailer

The hacker group Anonymous claims that Maxson is the man who drove Amanda Todd to her death last week, but the Canada native says it wasn't him and that he was a friend to the teen. Alleged Amanda Todd blackmailer Kody Maxson outed a second pedophile blackmailer, known as Viper. Maxson appeared i...

First Irish language Ransomware Malware demanding €100 for unlock

A new Ransomware Malware dubbed Gaeilge locks up an infected computer and attempts to extort €100 from the user for an unlock code. The demand for cash reportedly appeared in poorly written Gaelic, and the software nastie was spotted on a computer in County Donegal, Ireland. Gaeilge tell computer...

Malware Poses as US Department of Justice Violation Notice

Posing as the US Department of Justice DoJ, a new variant of the Citadel Malware called Reveton is responsible for a ransomware campaign that attempts to extort $100 from its victims. The infections are occurring after users are lured to a drive-by download site where a dropper installs the Citad...

Malware Campaign Extorts Users with SOPA Threats

A new scareware-ransomware hybrid attempts to convince users they are being sued in violation of the Stop Online Piracy Act SOPA and offers to remedy the problem if users purchase a fake antivirus solution. The malware claims to have detected illegal torrent files on the computer and offers to...

YamaTough Hacker Demanded $50,000 for not releasing Stolen Symantec Source Code

YamaTough Hacker Demanded $50,000 for not releasing Stolen Symantec Source Code According to email transcripts posted to Pastebin yesterday, and confirmed by the company, a group of hackers attempted to extort $50,000 from Symantec in exchange for not releasing its stolen PCAnywhere and Norton...

Ransomware Claims To Sniff Out Porn For The Police

Peddlers of ransomware are increasing their effectiveness by tailoring region-specific versions of a scam that impersonates local police. Microsoft has identified four variants of a ransomware scheme in which online criminals are using the good name of law enforcement agencies to trick victims in...

McAfee study - India is fourth lowest in security adoption !

McAfee study - India is fourth lowest in security adoption ! McAfee and the Center for Strategic and International Studies CSIS revealed the findings from a global report 'In the Dark, Crucial Industries Confront Cyber attacks' that reflects the cost and impact of cyber attacks on critical...

Confusion, Recriminations Surround PlentyofFish Breach

Controversy has erupted around the free online dating site, PlentyofFish.com, after the Web site was found to contain a serious security vulnerability that could have potentially exposed the personal information of some 30 million users. In another chapter of the annals of “No Good Deed Goes...

Пресечена деятельность хакеров-вымогателей

Источник: http://www.kguvd.ru/news/7 Когда: 31 Августа, 2010 Оперативники отдела "К" и УБЭП ГУВД Москвы пресекли деятельность группы хакеров, заражавших вредоносными программами компьютеры пользователей и вымогавших деньги за разблокировку. Деньги взимались с помощью платных SMS стоимостью от 300...

DDoS Extortionists Offer 'Discount' Competitor Attacks

One of the most novel approaches for acquiring new botnet clients is a weird combination consisting of direct DDoS extortion, followed by penalties for delayed response and the offering of 30% discount in case the victim wants to DDoS the competition once the ransom is paid. Read the full article...

Ransomware Tactic Lures Via Copyright Scare

An ongoing ransomware campaign is pretending to be the fake ICPP Foundation icpp-online.com, where the ransomware locks down the user’s desktop issuing a “Copyright violation: copyrighted content detected” message which lists torrent files found on the infected PC and forces the user to pay $400...

New Twist In Online Pharma Scams

Online scammers are re-scamming Internet pharmaceutical customers with a new ploy: posing as government agents and extorting money from them, says the US Food and Drug Administration. Read the full article. Info Security...

Ransomware Variant Features Novel Payment Scheme

A new ransomware variant encrypts files on a computer but uses a novel twist on monetizing the extortion threat. Instead of demanding money directly for decryption keys, as has been the case in other instances, it presumes that the owner of an infected computer will search for information to help...

PLEASE_READ_ME: The Opportunistic Ransomware Devastating MySQL Servers

Guardicore Labs uncovers a Ransomware detection campaign targeting MySQL servers. Attackers use Double Extortion and publish data to pressure victims...