Hackers have hit a UK bank with a Zeus version 3 Trojan, compromising around 3,000 customer accounts and taking £675,000 between 5 July and 6 August. They combined the Zeus malware with exploit toolkits to remain undetected by anti-fraud systems, M86 Security Labs has discovered. Once the victim’s system had been infected and they...
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BEIJING, CHINA – Although cyber attacks have been frequently reported across the mainland, China is not home to a vast web of malicious hackers, as many attacks here originate from countries overseas, according to analysts. “It is very complicated to locate an original attack”, said a participant at the 9th Xcon conference, an annual...
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A talk on China’s military cyber-attack capabilities has been pulled from the Black Hat security conference schedule following pressure from Taiwanese and Chinese agencies. The talk, entitled “The Chinese Cyber Army: An Archaeological Study from 2001 to 2010,” was billed as an analysis of China’s government-backed hacking initiatives, based on intelligence gathered from a...
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ONE in 10 Australian internet users – more than 1.3 million people – lost an average of $1000 each to cyber criminals in the past 12 months. Crooks used online identity fraud to fleece victims of $1.286 billion in the past year, the VeriSign Online Fraud Barometer compiled by Galaxy Research revealed. More than...
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Two years ago, the White House and the Pentagon launched a massive, secretive $17 billion effort to shore up the nation’s defenses, and assigned Darpa a crucial role: build a replica Internet — a “National Cyber Range” — that could not only be used to test out information attacks, but could “emulate human behavior...
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The Philippines is wrestling with what authorities say is a language monster invading youth-speak in Internet social networks and mobile phone text messaging. The phenomenon has triggered enormous social debate, with the government declaring an “all out war” against the cyber-dialect, called ‘jejemon’, but the Catholic church defending it as a form of free...
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The US Defense Department must be able to operate freely in cyberspace amid dangers of “remote sabotage,” an Army general tapped to streamline offensive and defensive computer operations said. The potential for sabotage and destruction is “something we must treat very seriously,” General Keith Alexander said in his first public remarks since the new...
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World Cup fever is almost upon us and, with England’s World Cup squad due to be announced today, it looks like hackers and criminal gangs will be generating large volumes of infected and other malicious email with a football theme. Symantec has revealed that it expects a massive increase in spam and other malicious...
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A German cybercrime forum was hacked by attackers who have exposed the underground dealings of the criminal denizens. The hackers snagged the database containing what appears to be all the private correspondence of the forum members, and posted it to the web. The hackers also posted information on the IP addresses forum members used...
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Coincidences sure are funny things. Booz Allen Hamilton — the defense contractor that’s become synonymous with the idea that the U.S. is getting its ass kicked in an ongoing cyberwar — has racked up more than $400 million worth of deals in the past six weeks to help the Defense Department fight that digital...
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Shoppers need to be judicious about Web-based discount coupons as such schemes may be exploited by cybercriminals, a security expert has warned. The danger lies in the form of a new breed of Web coupons, which have the ability to contain a substantial amount of customer information within their barcodes, The New York Times...
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Cybersecurity experts from around the world meeting on ways to protect the Internet say they still have fears of “nightmare” scenarios in which attacks could cripple critical computer networks. “I live in a world of nightmares,” Patrick Pailloux, director general of France’s Network and Information Security Agency, told participants in the first Worldwide Cybersecurity...
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Some officials and computer security companies are arguing that the World Wide Web is battlefield in a “cyberwar” that has armies of hackers stealing online secrets and using the Internet to attack the mainframe of many real world companies. However, some security analysts countered that image saying this week at a conference that “cyberwarfare”...
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