Olzhas Auyezov reports: Ukraine’s state security service on Thursday said it had broken up an international hacking ring that infiltrated foreign banks’ computer networks and stole $72 million. The hacker group, organised and led by Ukrainians, used a computer virus to access bank accounts abroad, the SBU security agency said. Read more from Reuters Canada.
Category: Malware
Man infects college PCs to steal huge database
Dan Goodin reports: A former college student has admitted taking part in a criminal scheme that used malware to steal and sell large databases of faculty and alumni, change grades, and siphon funds from other students’ accounts. Daniel J. Fowler, 21, of Kansas City, Missouri, pleaded guilty in federal court there to computer hacking conspiracy…
Virgin alerts infected customers
About 1,500 customers of internet service provider Virgin Media have been warned that their PCs are infected with a malicious virus. The targeted customers had fallen victim to the SpyEye trojan that steals log-ins for online bank accounts. Letters have been sent to those affected, giving them advice on how to clean up their computers….
Virus on Penn State Altoona computer may have put 12,000 alumni, faculty, and staff Social Security Numbers in hacker’s hands
Russ O’Reilly reports: Thousands of faculty, staff and former students at Penn State Altoona are examining their bank accounts and credit reports this week after receiving a letter that their personal information could be at risk after a security breach in the university’s database. A computer virus created with malicious intent to steal information breached…
Financial data stealing Malware now on Amazon Web Services Cloud
Dmitry Bestuzhev of Kaspersky writes: There were some recent comments about Amazon Cloud as a platform for successful attacks on Sony… Well, today I found that Amazon Web services (Cloud) now is being used to spread financial data stealers. The evidence indicates that the criminals behind the attack are from Brazil and they used several…
CA: SF utilities agency warns of potential breach
Elinor Mills reports: The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is warning its customers that their personal data may have been exposed in a recent breach, an SFPUC spokesman told CNET today. SFPUC noticed a few weeks ago that an unsecured server that was storing customer data also had some viruses on it, according to spokesman…