Malicious Infrared X-Ray Android app infecting users in Japan

Researchers are already warning that malware authors developing more sophisticated attack techniques for mobile devices, using encryption and randomization or hiding malicious code in image files. As analyzed by Symantec a malicious Infrared X-Ray Android application, attempting to lure Android...

Jailed cyber criminal hacked into prison computer system from Jail

Old habits seem to die hard for a hacker, a cyber criminal who masterminded a £15 million fraud was allowed to join a prison IT class and hacked into the jail's computer system. Nicholas Webber, serving five years in prison for running an internet crime forum Ghost Market, Which allowed those...

Jailed cyber criminal hacked into prison computer system from Jail

Old habits seem to die hard for a hacker, a cyber criminal who masterminded a £15 million fraud was allowed to join a prison IT class and hacked into the jail’s computer system. Nicholas Webber, serving five years in prison for running an internet crime forum Ghost Market, Which allowed those...

Lulzsec hacker Sabu's sentencing postponed again

Remember Hector Xavier Monsegur a.k.a Lulzsec hacker Sabu ? That undercover double agent working for the FBI. Once again Authorities abruptly postponed his sentencing due to his continued cooperation with the feds. All told, he faced a maximum time behind bars of 124 years associated with his...

Lulzsec hacker Sabu's sentencing postponed again

Remember Hector Xavier Monsegur a.k.a Lulzsec hacker Sabu ? That undercover double agent working for the FBI. Once again Authorities abruptly postponed his sentencing due to his continued cooperation with the feds. All told, he faced a maximum time behind bars of 124 years associated with his...

Study Shows One in Four Who Receive Data Breach Letter Become Fraud Victims

A study released Wednesday shows one in four consumers who receive a data breach letter become the victim of identity fraud. That statistic represented 12.6 million victims last year — one million more than the year before, according to the 2013 Identity Fraud Report released by Javelin Strategy ...

Chinese Government targets Uyghur group by malware attack

An old vulnerability in Word for OS X is being used in increasing levels of attacks, probably government-sponsored hacking programs against Uyghur group, including Tibetans, NGOs and human rights organizations. A number of attacks have been seen directed at the World Uyghur Congress, a Munich-bas...

Hacker charged for funding terrorist groups

A hacker 'Cahya Fitrianta' sentenced to eight years in prison by the West Jakarta District Court judges for hacking into many economic websites to steal money and funding that money to terrorist groups. He is also ordered to pay a Rp 500 million $51,000 fine. He is charged with breaking into many...

Microsoft, Symantec Join Forces to Take Down Bamital Click-Fraud Botnet

Microsoft and Symantec have shut down a massive click fraud botnet known as Bamital, numerous variants of which have been in circulation since 2009 amassing several million dollars in fraudulent profit for the attackers as well as spreading more malware including scareware. The botnet thrived on...

Dutch Hacker Sentenced for selling 100,000 credit cards

A Dutch hacker was sentenced to 12 years in a US prison on Friday for trafficking over 100,000 credit card numbers stolen in a computer hacking conspiracy. David Benjamin Schrooten, 22, known as "Fortezza" in the hacker world, pleaded guilty in November to criminal charges related to hacking, ban...

Dutch Hacker Sentenced for selling 100,000 credit cards

A Dutch hacker was sentenced to 12 years in a US prison on Friday for trafficking over 100,000 credit card numbers stolen in a computer hacking conspiracy. David Benjamin Schrooten, 22, known as “Fortezza” in the hacker world, pleaded guilty in November to criminal charges related to hacking, ban...

DNS Changer malware mastermind pleaded guilty

Remember the DNS Changer malware that infected at least four million computers in more than 100 countries, including 500,000 in the United States, with malicious software or malware ? Valeri Aleksejev, 32 years old from Estonia, is the first of the seven individuals to enter a plea, admitting his...

DNS Changer malware mastermind pleaded guilty

Remember the DNS Changer malware that infected at least four million computers in more than 100 countries, including 500,000 in the United States, with malicious software or malware ? Valeri Aleksejev, 32 years old from Estonia, is the first of the seven individuals to enter a plea, admitting his...

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...

PayPal Addresses Months-Old SQL Injection Vulnerability, Frozen Accounts

Researchers with Vulnerability Lab today announced mega payment processor PayPal has fixed a flaw on its site that allowed a remote user or a local user with low privileges to compromise a Web application using a blind SQL injection. The vulnerability was first reported to PayPal back in August,...

Zaxby's Chicken Chain Warns of Possible Credit Card Thefts

At least 100 restaurants’ customers are at risk of credit and debit card fraud after a U.S. fast food chain announced it’s found data-swiping malware on some of its franchises’ computer hard drives. Zaxby’s Franchising, Inc. alerted customers via a news release that credit card processing compani...

URL redirect/jump vulnerability explanation-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

0x00 relevant background information Due to the application of more and more needs and other third party interactive applications, as well as in its own internal Application according to a different logic the user will be directed to a different page, for example, a typical login interface is oft...

How to Fail at Corporate Fraud

Working with forensics experts from the FBI, Ernst & Young’s Fraud Investigation and Dispute Services Practice developed a piece of linguistic, fraud-monitoring software that identified language commonly used among employees engaged in corporate malfeasance. The accounting giant plans to offer...

Fraudulent Certificate for Google Domains Found After Mistake by Turkish CA

Google has pushed out an update that blocks an intermediate digital certificate for .google.com after discovering that a Turkish certificate authority had mistakenly issued intermediate certificates to two organizations that should only have gotten normal SSL certificates. That error gave those t...

Regulator Warns Banks About DDoS Attacks, Encourages Information Sharing

In an alert issued by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency OCC, Deputy Comptroller for Operational Risk Carolyn G. DuChene warned financial and other critical institutions about the wave of ongoing distributed denial of service DDoS attacks targeting their networks. DuChene is urging the...