While underground forum users and other crooks are still very much interested in stolen credit card numbers, they’re also increasingly keen to trade in another type of information: personal data. Rather than just trying to grab credit card information, criminals

Yesterday, a US judge sentenced Vladimir Tsastsin to 87 months in jail for his lead role in an international crime ring that infected with malware over four million computers in 100 countries and pocketed the criminal and his accomplices $14 million (€12.4

Forcepoint has released its 2016 Global Threat Report, detailing some of the latest evolving cyber threats gathered from more than three billion data points per day in 155 countries around the world. The report analysed the security impact of several issues, including

The Swift (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) system has apparently fallen victim to the same sophisticated hacking scheme that was used to disrupt the Bangladesh central bank last month. The cyberattack in Bangladesh resulted in a loss of $951

A cyberespionage group active in Asia has been leveraging a Windows feature known as hotpatching in order to better hide its malware from security products. The group, which malware researchers from Microsoft call Platinum, has been active since at least

Young Internet users are more likely to lose their phones and eventually become victims of hacking compared to older adults, a report showed. A report by global cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab showed that one in every four of young adults

A nuclear power plant 75 miles from Munich has been harboring malware—including remote-access trojans and file-stealing malware—on the computer system that is used to monitor the plant’s fuel rods. Fortunately, as Reuters reported, the computer isn’t connected to the Internet,

As any online shopper knows, all credit cards have a 3-digit card verification value (CVV or CVV2) code printed on the back. Merchants are forbidden from storing this information — so how do online fraudsters manage to get hold of

The FBI is maintaining its silence about a hack that gave it access to data on a terrorist’s iPhone. As expected, the agency released a statement Wednesday arguing that it doesn’t know enough about the hacking method to submit it

U.S. judges will be able to issue search warrants giving law enforcement agents power to access computers in any jurisdiction, potentially even overseas, under a controversial rule change likely to be approved by the Supreme Court by May 1. Magistrate

A HACKER WHO broke into a large bank in the United Arab Emirates made good on his threat to release customer data after the bank refused to pay a bitcoin ransom worth about $3 million. The hacker, who calls himself

Microsoft’s Windows Defender Advanced Threat Hunting team works to track down and identify hacking groups that perpetrate attacks. The focus is on the groups that are the most selective about their targets and that work the hardest to stay undetected. The

Cyber criminals who have forced U.S. hospitals, schools and cities to pay hundreds of millions in blackmail or see their computer files destroyed are now targeting the unlikeliest group of victims — local police departments. Eastern European hackers are hitting

A security vulnerability with Waze allows anyone to monitor a user’s travels, according to newly revealed research by University of California, Santa Barbara researchers. Using this vulnerability, researchers were able to create so-called “ghost drivers” and monitor real drivers using

Hackers gained entry to Facebook’s internal corporate network for several months, with access to hundreds of the social network’s employee usernames and passwords. The hackers, which were actively exploiting Facebook’s network in July and September last year and possibly as