Infosecurity News
BEC Attacks Jumped 17% Last Year
Wire transfer fraud dominates as scammers widen the net
Euro SMBs Paid Out $98m for Ransomware Decryption Last Year
Small businesses also experienced serious downtime, according to Datto
Crypto-Wars: Bitgrail Hits Back at Dev Team After $170m 'Theft'
Crypto-exchange founder now claims Nano developers defamed him
Necurs Fuels Massive Valentine's Day Spam Campaign
The campaign delivers short email blurbs supposedly from Russian women living in the US.
MSSPs Waste Hours of Time on False Alerts
A full 44% of respondents report a 50% or higher false-positive rate on security alerts.
Lazarus Rises Again with Aggressive Bitcoin-Stealing Campaign
The campaign uses implants that have never before been seen and indicate a newly sophisticated level of attack.
IBM Patches Spectre and Meltdown for Power Servers
Big Blue also warns of new Notes vulnerability
Crypto-Mining Malware Found on 4000+ Sites
ICO, NHS, US Courts and many other government sites hit
Winter Olympics Site Taken Out for 12 Hours
Russia suspected of pre-ceremony cyber-attack
Server-Side Exploits Take the Lead for Financially Motivated Hackers
At the same time, the number of known vulnerabilities doubled in 2017.
Niche Cryptocurrency Dentacoin Expands Focus and Gains Momentum
Dentacoin is coming to North America for the first time.
Roku-Based Smart TVs Open to Remote Takeover
Hackers can pump the volume to blaring levels, cycle through channels, open disturbing YouTube content or kick the TV off Wi-Fi.
RSA Security: Consumers Falsify Data to Safeguard PII
Majority would also boycott firms with poor track record on data security
Apple Calms Nerves After GitHub Code Leak
Smartphone giant says there’s nothing to worry about from iBoot leak
Over 19 Million Californian Voter Records Held for Ransom Again
Newspaper’s error means firewall was down for two weeks
Air Gaps, Faraday Cages Can't Deter Hackers After All
One method exploits the magnetic field generated by a computer's CPU.
Litecoin Emerges as Most Popular Dark Web Currency, After Bitcoin
Surprisingly, it's not Dash.
81% of Cybersecurity Pros See Value in Threat Intelligence
68% of organizations are currently creating or consuming threat data.
Fraud Attempts Soar 113% in Q4
Bots and breached credentials continue to fuel insatiable rise
Global Arrests as $530m Carding Forum Folds
Infraud Organization inflicted $2.2bn in intended losses
