Love it! Steve Nichols reports: A cyber hacker gets scammed when he targeted a Clearwater cyber security firm. KnowBe4 trains corporate clients on defending against “phishing attacks”, a term for using realistic-looking but fake emails for illicit gain. Last Friday, the company’s chief financial officer received an email purportedly from the chief technology officer requesting…
Category: Malware
Trump International Hotel & Tower Las Vegas notifying customers that malware was present in payment card system for more than one year (UPDATE 1)
Norton Rose Fulbright, a law firm representing The Trump Hotel Collection, is sending out notifications to customers who used a payment card at Trump International Hotel & Tower Las Vegas between May 19, 2014, and June 2, 2015. They write: Although an independent forensic investigation has not conclusively determined that any particular customer’s payment card information was taken…
KY: North Oldham High School student data potentially compromised after employee falls for phishing attempt
Allison Ross reports: North Oldham High School is alerting 2,800 current and former students that a data breach earlier this month could have exposed their names, social security numbers and other personal information. On Sept. 10, an outside scammer breached a computer after a nutrition services staff member at the school “ended up at a website…
‘Self-deleting’ Mexican ATM malware let sneaky miscreants slurp ca
John Leyden reports: Security researchers have lifted the lid on a new ATM malware strain, dubbed GreenDispenser, which gives crooks the ability to walk up to a compromised machine and drain its cash. When installed, GreenDispenser displays an “out of service” message on the ATM – but attackers who enter the correct pin codes can…
Cyber Sleuths Track Hacker to China’s Military
Josh Chin reports: The email attachment would tempt anyone following the diplomatic standoff between China and other countries in the South China Sea. The Microsoft Word document contained text and photos depicting Thai naval personnel capturing Vietnamese fishermen and forcing them to kneel at gunpoint. But the attachment was a decoy: Anyone who opened it…
Apple to notify those who downloaded infected apps
Trevor Mogg reports: While Apple says it so far has no evidence suggesting that malware-infected apps discovered recently in its iOS store have stolen personal data or caused any other issues for users, it’ll nevertheless be contacting anyone who’s downloaded one or more of the infected apps with advice on what steps to take. Read…