Tag: Cybercrime
Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai said on Wednesday he opposes China Mobile Ltd’s bid to provide U.S. telecommunications services, citing security risks, and said the commission will vote on whether to deny the company’s application in May. China Mobile …
Researchers had already found a spyware app called Exodus plaguing Android. Now it has shown up on iPhones. PRIVATE COMPANIES AROUND the world have evolved a gray industry supplying digital surveillance and hacking tools to governments and local law enforcement. As the once …
The Chamois botnet once infected 20 million Android devices. Here’s how Google finally tore it up. IN MARCH 2017, the Android security team was feeling pleased with itself. The group had detected, analyzed, and neutralized a sophisticated botnet built on tainted apps …
Twitter’s lead regulator in the European Union, the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC), said on Friday it was investigating the company for a breach notification received from the social networking site. DUBLIN (Reuters) – Twitter’s lead regulator in the European …
Hackers target West African financial sector — Tim Cook makes privacy recommendations — It’s the money issue of MC, starting with a prediction that cyberattacks will cost companies worldwide $5.2 trillion over the next five years. An Accenture study anticipates the …
Seldom do people responsible for launching crippling cyberattacks face justice, but increasingly courts around the world are making examples of the few who do get busted for such crimes. On Friday, a 34-year-old Connecticut man received a whopping 10-year prison …
The costs of restoring services after a DNS (Domain Name System) attack are higher for financial services firms than for companies in any other sector. According to a survey of 1,000 large financial services firms in Europe, North America and …
Department for Health and Social Care estimates the immediate cost of the May 2017 WannaCry attack on the NHS was £92m, and says it will have spent about £275m on improvements to its cyber security infrastructure by the end of …
Facebook Friday offered more details about its recent breach. Here’s how to see if you were affected. AT THE END of last month, Facebook made a bombshell disclosure: As many as 90 million of its users may have had their so-called access tokens—which keep you logged …
Anti-phishing firm Cofense analyses more than 3,000 reported emails every day, with more than 10% found to be malicious across key industries. That 10%, which was nearer 20% in the legal and utilities sectors, has bypassed other security solutions such as email gateways …
This is for a variety of reasons, including a lack of faith in law enforcement’s ability to help, failure to see how reporting a cyber crime has any benefit, belief that the organisation or incident is too small for police …
Ransomware is not an unfamiliar threat. For the last few years it has been affecting the world of cybersecurity, infecting and blocking access to various devices or files and requiring users to pay a ransom (usually in Bitcoins or another …
“OOPS, YOUR FILES have been encrypted!” This was the chilling message that greeted hundreds of thousands of computer users last summer. The WannaCry ransomwareattack brought production to a standstill at Renault factories across France, put lives at risk by attacking hospitals in the …
The exploitation of companies like Amazon, Facebook and Instagram has caused a $1.5 trillion boom in cyber crime, according to new research. The study by Dr Michael McGuire, senior lecturer in criminology at the University of Surrey, explored methods by …
Some cyber attackers are exploiting trust in FTP servers to distribute malware, security researchers warn. A short-lived email campaign distributing a variant of the Dridex banking Trojan indicates that cyber criminals are using compromised FTP sites to download malicious documents. Using FTP sites instead …
Cyber criminals stole nearly 20,000 patient records from the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit in early December, exploiting cribbed email credentials to break into the hospital’s network. The breach follows a trend this year of increasing attacks that are …
Business has a crucial role in fighting cyber crime in terms of intelligence sharing and pursuing cyber criminals, according to the country’s top cyber cops UK law enforcement has an established and effective co-ordination plan in place that is resulting …
