Top Illicit Carding Marketplace UniCC Abruptly Shuts Down

A top underground market for buying and selling stolen credit-card details, UniCC, has announced it’s shutting down operations. The site accounted for about 30 percent of carding scam business and, since it was launched in 2013, handled about $358 million in cryptocurrency transactions, according...

ATM Hacking Has Gotten So Easy, the Malware's a Game

A strain of ATM malware called WinPot turns the act of cashing out into something like a slot machine...

Former Microsoft Engineer Gets Prison for Role in Reveton Ransomware

A former Microsoft network engineer who was charged in April this year has now been sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to money laundering in connection with the Reveton ransomware. Reveton malware is old ransomware, also known as scareware or police ransomware that instead of...

Dridex Banking Malware Infections Return

Conspicuously off the grid for close to two months, the Dridex banking Trojan made some noise Thursday morning when a large phishing campaign, primarily targeting victims in the U.K., was corralled by researchers at Palo Alto Networks. The phishing emails are laced with a Microsoft Word document...