An email campaign spreading malware via links purporting to be either for Men’s Health articles or military-related is spreading quickly, and appear to be coming from Australia or South Korea.
Does ACTA live on in the EC IPRED Directive?
The European Commission has run a public consultation on the enforcement of IPRED – the Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive. The consultation closed on the day before April Fool’s Day – but not everybody is amused.
American Express joins the ranks of US banks attacked by al-Qassam group
On Thursday last week the American Express website went offline for a couple of hours during a DDoS attack by the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters in pursuance of their ongoing protest against the Innocence of Muslims video.
Don’t forget: Evernote used for malware control
The cloud-based note-taking tool Evernote, with its adorable elephant logo and general user-friendly touchy-feely vibe, seems innocuous enough. However, cybercriminals are giving it a very different character, by hijacking the popular service and using…
Amazon cloud’s public buckets may be too public
Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) is a popular cloud storage service, used by business to store static files, and by individuals to share them. Storage can be either public or private; but new research suggests that public is possibly more public th…
Spamhaus suffers largest DDoS attack in history – entire internet affected
Spamhaus, an IP blacklisting service, has been under a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack for a week. Attack traffic has been rated at up to 300Gbps – three times higher than the previous record, and six times greater than the typical attack r…
Java vulnerabilities are almost ubiquitous
Java vulnerabilities are seemingly ubiquitous, with vulnerabilities and zero-days nabbing headlines on what seems like a weekly basis. According to an analysis, that perception cleaves fairly close to reality: 94% of endpoints are vulnerable to at leas…
The dark side of encryption and social networks: Pedophile Jailed in UK
An internet pedophile has been jailed at the Inner London Crown Court for eight years after using social networks for grooming and encryption to hide his offenses. Because of the encryption, the police can only guess at other crimes.
Trojans, RATs and Slovenian money gang involved in $2.5 million bank fraud
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.
Identifying individuals through mobile tracking
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’.