Infosecurity News

  1. Lazarus Group Exposed with Major New North Korea Link

    Kaspersky Lab researchers highlight huge scale and sophistication of operations

  2. Chinese Hackers Targeted Global Firms Via Supply Chain

    APT10 group pegged for massive Operation Cloud Hopper campaign

  3. Bogus Nintendo Switch Emulator Scams Gamers

    The emulators are duping gaming enthusiasts into downloading unwanted applications and more.

  4. Most Users Haven't Changed Social Media Passwords in a Year

    About 53% of users haven’t changed their social network passwords in more than one year—with a fifth having never changed their passwords at all.

  5. New Study to Explore Relationship Between Autism and Cybercrime

    Bath university researchers will start project today

  6. IT Admin Guilty of Hacking of Former Employer

    El Paso bootmaker suffered serious downtime and extra costs following incident

  7. Cerber Learns to Evade Machine Learning

    For every new malware detection technique, an equivalent evasion technique is created out of necessity.

  8. CyberFirst Girls' Hacking Competition Showcases Teen Skills

    The UK’s CyberFirst Girls’ competition saw 37 young ladies representing 10 teams displaying impressive code-cracking abilities.

  9. Law Firms Face Increase in Attacks

    One in four of all legal firms have been the subject of a cyber-attack

  10. Fake WordPress Plugin Opens Sites to Criminals

    Dubbed WP-Base-SEO, the plugin is a forgery of a legitimate search engine optimization plugin.

  11. New Malware Lets Attackers Encrypt 'Hand-Picked' Systems & Files

    New ransomware technique dubbed 'What You See Is What You Encrypt'

  12. New Mirai Variant Hits Target with 54-hour DDoS

    US college under fire from app-layer attack

  13. 40% of ICS, Critical Infrastructure Targeted by Cyberattacks

    Every fourth targeted attack detected by Kaspersky Lab in 2016 was aimed at industrial targets.

  14. Russian Hacker Pleads Guilty to Ebury Botnet Role

    Maxim Senakh said to have benefitted from scams that made millions

  15. Hong Kong’s 3.7 Million Voters Exposed in Massive Breach

    Encrypted details are stolen on two laptops

  16. Apple iPhone Users in Crosshairs of a Scareware Campaign

    A scareware attack is targeting Apple iPhone and iPad users, “locking” their browsers unless they pay a ransom.

  17. Led by AdultFriendFinder, Breached Records Spike 86%

    1,792 data breaches led to almost 1.4 billion data records being compromised worldwide during 2016.

  18. Apple Dials Up Encryption as Mobile Threats Soar

    Nokia report reveals 83% increase in smartphone infections

  19. LastPass Races to Fix Yet Another Serious Flaw

    Google’s Ormandy once again the bearer of bad news

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