“One company says a group is attempting to extort it with the threat of spreading a wave of fake, negative reviews and complaints across Instagram and Twitter. ‘We are experts in destroying personal or company reputation online,’ the group, calling itself STD Company, wrote to its targets, acc...
In describing the intelligence value to be derived in analyzing cryptocurrency transactions, security professional John Bambenek shared with the AUSCERT security conference his experience finding a cybercriminal’s private wallet key accidentally uploaded to VirusTotal. “On a whim, Bambenek searc...
By Shannon Perry The American media has never paid more attention to data breaches and cybersecurity than it does today. Major breaches in the last year – at large companies like Target and eBay – have made information security discussions more worrying and more widespread, albeit still not univ...
“Almost 30 Australian businesses, including 12 in Queensland, have been held to ransom in the past week by cybercriminals who lock up their computer files with unbreakable encryption.” Source:Cyber raiders hold Queensland firms to $3000 ransom by locking computer files | Information, Gad...
“A self-professed leader of the computer hacker group Anonymous was arrested by authorities in Dallas, officials said on Thursday. ‘He was arrested and brought in for booking about 11 p.m. last night,’ said Dallas County Sheriff’s spokeswoman Carmen Castro.” Source: ...
“A federal judge has rejected BancorpSouth’s plan to use contractual agreements with customers as a shield against liability claims stemming from an online heist of some $440,000 that was illegally wire-transferred from the account of one of the bank’s commercial customers in March...
“Call it a slow leak. Four months after the gaming site Gamigo warned users about a hacker intrusion that accessed some portions of its users’ credentials, more than 8 million usernames, emails and and encrypted passwords from the site have been published on the Web, according to the data br...
“A local business received a strange, threatening message every time someone tried to open a file Wednesday, police said. Hackers claimed to have hijacked the firm’s files through the use of encryption, though it is not clear if they were actually able to do this. If the company did not pay ...