Cyber Security Week in Review (Feb. 8)

Welcome to this week's Cyber Security Week in Review, where Cisco Talos runs down all of the news we think you need to know in the security world. For more news delivered to your inbox every week, sign up for our Threat Source newsletter here. Top headlines this week Attackers continue to utilize...

Facebook Boots Hundreds of Iran-Linked Accounts For Spreading Misinformation

Facebook has booted hundreds of Iran-linked pages, groups and accounts from its social media platform that it claimed were promoting misinformation. According to Facebook, it removed 783 pages, groups and accounts that engaged in “coordinated inauthentic behavior” that were misleading users about...

Google Bans Cryptocurrency Mining Android Apps From the Play Store

Following Apple's lead in banning cryptocurrency mining apps, Google has also updated its Play Store policy this week to ban apps that mine cryptocurrencies on users' devices in the background. However, there are countless cryptocurrency mining apps, including MinerGate, AA Miner, NeoNeonMiner, a...

21-Year-Old Creator of LuminosityLink Hacking Tool Pleads Guilty

As it was speculated that the author of LuminosityLink RAT was arrested last year, a plea agreement made available to the public today confirmed the news. Back in September last year, Europol's European Cybercrime Centre EC3 and National Crime Agency began the crackdown on the LuminosityLink RAT,...

Russia blocks 50 VPNs & Anonymizers amid Telegram crack down

By Carolina On May 3rd, 2018, Russia's media and communication regularity authority Roskomnadzor This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Russia blocks 50 VPNs & Anonymizers amid Telegram crack down...

Police Shut Down World's Biggest 'DDoS-for-Hire' Service–Admins Arrested

In a major hit against international cybercriminals, the Dutch police have taken down the world's biggest DDoS-for-hire service that helped cyber criminals launch over 4 million attacks and arrested its administrators. An operation led by the UK's National Crime Agency NCA and the Dutch Police,...

Chinese Man Jailed For Selling VPNs that Bypass Great Firewall

--- Image source: goldenfrog In an effort to continue its crackdown on VPNs, Chinese authorities have arrested a 26-year-old man for selling VPN software on the Internet. China's Supreme Court has sentenced Deng Jiewei from Dongguan in Guangdong province, close to Hong Kong, to nine months in...

China Enforces Real-Name Policy to Regulate Online Comments

If you reside in China, your Internet life within the borders will soon be even more challenging. Last Friday, China's top Internet regulator announced a new set of rules that would force citizens to post comments using their real-world identities on Internet forums and other web platforms. Yes,...

Apple removes VPN Apps from the China App Store

In order to comply with Chinese censorship law, Apple has started removing all virtual private network VPN apps from the App Store in China, making it harder for internet users to bypass its Great Firewall. VPN service providers that provide services in China has accused the United States tech...

Europol arrests 34 Teenagers for using DDoS Attack Tools

Europol has announced that the law enforcement agencies from 13 countries around the globe have arrested 34 users of Netspoof DDoS attack tool and interviewed and warned 101 suspects in a global crackdown. According to the report published on the official website of Europol, law enforcement...

Syria suffers nationwide communications outage

The Syrian situation is getting worse day by day, the regime is attacking dissident mercilessly meanwhile the world wide community is standing by and watch helplessly stopped by prohibition of military intervention imposed by Russia and China, historical allies of Damascus. Syria regime is fierce...

Syrian Dissidents Hit By Another Wave of Targeted Attacks

One of the attackers who has been targeting Syrian anti-government activists with malware and surveillance tools has returned and upped the ante with the use of the BlackShades RAT, a remote-access tool that gives him the ability to spy on victims machines through keylogging and screenshots. The...

Anonymous Changes DDoS Tactics in Megaupload Retaliation

Anonymous’ army of hacktivists have changed tactics in what some are calling an attempt to trick people into participating in distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks. A round of DDoS attacks Thursday were launched in retaliation for the federal crackdown on Megaupload, a popular file-sharing...

An Inside Look at Criminal Shipping Operations

Cyber criminals are relying more than ever on mules to move fenced goods from the U.S. to foreign markets for resale, according to a report on krebsonsecurity.com. With online retailers cracking down on fraudulent purchases, criminal gangs are using networks of complicit or unwitting citizens to...

As Tension Mounts, LinkedIn Knocked Offline in China

Business social-networking site LinkedIn has been unavailable in some parts of China since Thursday, suggesting it may have fallen victim to the country’s increased crackdown on online discussion sites. Pings sent to LinkedIn.com from the Chinese cities of Shanghai and Beijing weren’t returned wh...

Trojan Hackers Get Prison in China

A Chinese court Wednesday sentenced 11 members of a malware ring for writing and distributing Trojan horse viruses meant to steal online game account passwords, according to state media. Read the full article. IDG News Service...

China steps up fight against cybercrime

From CSO Robert McMillan In the face of increased attacks by its citzens against Chinese networks, China is stepping up the severity and enforcement of its computer crime laws. China often is cited as one of the major havens for hackers and malware authors, but as this IDG News Service report...