Slovenian Police have detained five citizens in a $2.5 million, highly targeted bank fraud campaign. The criminal group was found to be using 25 money mules to electronically transfer funds out of the accounts of smaller companies.

A new report published in Nature’s Scientific Reports section shows how the location data available from mobile devices can be used as a virtual fingerprint to identify individual people regardless of whether the data is ‘anonymized’.

The UK Ministry of Justice has issued a new consultation paper aimed at NHS data controllers asking for views on whether the ICO should be able to impose a data protection audit on NHS bodies without their consent.

Pirated software may carry an ostensibly small price tag compared to the real thing, but it often also carries something else: ride-along malware that will cost consumers 1.5 billion hours and $22 billion this year in identifying, repairing and recover…

The next evolution of credit card payment details extraction has hit Russian underground hacking forums in the form of the vSkimmer malware, a botnet that directly targets card payment terminals using Windows.

This weekend saw the release of around 35,000 names and other details, allegedly including Mossad agents, stolen by Anonymous and following a warning that OpIsrael phase 2 – designed to ‘erase’ Israel from the internet – would commence on 7 April.

We’ve been busy this week, still behind on our emails, but going strong with Kali development. We packaged some new tools which were pointed out by the community as missing, such as inguma, arachni, bully, lbd, uniscan, automater, as well as star…

Sykipot malware, often tied to a Chinese origin, has been used extensively over the last few years to target primarily US defense organizations. Now the latest zero-day exploits used by the gang have been revealed.

South Korea, the globe’s most-wired country and one of its biggest tech hubs, has been hit with a wave of attacks on major media and banks, freezing networks and broadcast infrastructure and rendering a swath of ATMs, mobile banking, websites and payme…

A critical review of the Jimmy Savile case, who now posthumously has hundreds of sexual abuse allegations against him, suggests that a combination of his celebrity status and police privacy rules combined to protect him for decades.