Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Wire Transfer Slip Notification Email Messages on October 28, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 31514 First Published: 2013 October 29 15:07 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a wire transfer slip for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient to op...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Wire Transfer Notification Email Messages on October 22, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 31413 First Published: 2013 October 22 19:46 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a wire transfer notification for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipie...

Experian Sells Data to Identity theives

The credit bureau Experian appears to have sold an unknown amount of highly sensitive personal information to a Vietnamese national who maintained an online identity theft service, according to a long-running investigative report published by Krebs on Security reporter Brian Krebs. Experian, whic...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Bank Wire Transfer Confirmation Notification Email Messages on August 20, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 30473 First Published: 2013 August 20 20:12 GMT Last Updated: 2013 August 22 14:07 GMT Version: 2 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a bank wire transfer notification for the recipient. The text in the ema...

JDWP Arbitrary Java Code Execution Exploitation

This is a whitepaper discussing arbitrary java code execution leveraging the Java Debugging Wire Protocol JDWP. JDWP Arbitrary Java Code Execution Exploitation =============================================== Java Debugging Wire Protocol JDWP is the lowlevel protocol used for communication between...

Russian Hackers charged for stealing 160 million Credit Cards

A Group of Hackers, Four Russians and a Ukrainian allegedly broke computer networks of more than a dozen major American and international corporations and stole 160 million credit card numbers over the course of seven years, the largest data theft case ever prosecuted in the U.S. They are accused...

Russian Hackers charged for stealing 160 million Credit Cards

A Group of Hackers, Four Russians and a Ukrainian allegedly broke computer networks of more than a dozen major American and international corporations and stole 160 million credit card numbers over the course of seven years, the largest data theft case ever prosecuted in the U.S. They are accused...

College Student Gets Year in Prison for Wire Fraud in Tampering With Student Election

A former Cal State San Marcos student was sentenced to a year in prison this week for wire fraud and other charges related to election tampering by using keystroke loggers to grab student credentials and then vote for himself. Matthew Weaver, 22, of Huntington Beach, Calif., stole almost 750...

U.S Emergency broadcast System vulnerable to hackers

A major vulnerability has been discovered in the U.S. Emergency Alert System, researchers have warned.that could allow hackers to break into the system and broadcast fake messages to the United States. According to a new report by security firm IOActive, U.S. Emergency Alert System, the system us...

U.S Emergency broadcast System vulnerable to hackers

A major vulnerability has been discovered in the U.S. Emergency Alert System, researchers have warned.that could allow hackers to break into the system and broadcast fake messages to the United States. According to a new report by security firm IOActive, U.S. Emergency Alert System, the system us...

Hazelcast Wire Protocol Detection

The wire protocol for Hazelcast, an open source data clustering solution, was found listening on the remote host. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid67022; scriptversion"1.2"; scriptcvsdate"Date: 2019/11/22"; scriptnameenglish:"Hazelcast Wire Protocol...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Wire Transfer Failure Notification Email Messages on June 24, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 29769 First Published: 2013 June 24 19:32 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a failed wire transfer notification for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Digital Certificate Update Notification Email Messages on June 24, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 29766 First Published: 2013 June 24 16:03 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a new digital certificate from KeyBank for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the...

Liberty Reserve founder arrested for money laundering, service closed down

Liberty Reserve, a payment processor similar to Paypal was down on Saturday after the founder of Liberty Reserve, Arthur Budovsky Belanchuk, 39, on Friday was reportedly arrested in Spain by Costa Rican authorities after his they raided suspect´s home and offices in San José and Heredia. Mr...

UK banks hit by Ramnit banking malware and social engineering attacks

A dangerous variant of the Ramnit malware has been discovered targeting the UK's financial sector. Trusteer claims to have discovered an interesting trojan based attack technique that injects highly convincing and interactive real-time messages into the user Web stream that they encounter when...

UK banks hit by Ramnit banking malware and social engineering attacks

A dangerous variant of the Ramnit malware has been discovered targeting the UK's financial sector. Trusteer claims to have discovered an interesting trojan based attack technique that injects highly convincing and interactive real-time messages into the user Web stream that they encounter when...

Three Charged with Creating, Distributing Gozi Banking Malware

Charges will be brought today in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against three men allegedly involved with creating and distributing the Gozi banking Trojan. Gozi infected more than a million computers worldwide, including a handful at NASA, leading to tens of millio...

Report Contends 'Project Blitzkrieg' Threat Credible

Earlier reports of a planned, sophisticated attack on 30 U.S. banks to siphon millions from fake wire transfers have been vetted by McAfee Labs in a just-released report. Speculation about the authenticity of the planned attack, dubbed Project Blitzkrieg, on large U.S. financial institutions...

Operation High Roller Now Targets Europe's SEPA Network and Large US Bank

The criminals behind Operation High Roller, a complex wire-fraud scheme that has scammed high-end banking customers out of millions, have added a new dimension of automation to their attacks and expanded their efforts beyond Europe and have targeted a major U.S. bank. Researchers at McAfee provid...

Capital One Financial Corp latest victim of Cyber Attack

Capital One Financial Corp. said it's the latest target in a new round of coordinated cyber attacks aimed at disrupting the websites of major U.S. banks, and SunTrust Banks Inc. and Regions Financial Corp. said they expect to be next. The so-called "Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters" posted a...