Nick Bilogorskiy writes: Cyphort Labs discovered a malware infection at the Ukrainian website of UniCredit bank – unicredit.ua . UniCredit Group is a leading European commercial bank with an international network spanning 17 European countries with more than 149,000 employees. It has 950 billion Euros in assets. UniCredit is the largest Italian bank by market capitalization. The…
Category: Malware
Wicked WikiLeaks leaks considered harmful: Alert over malware lurking in dumped docs
Chris Williams reports: Documents laced with malware have been found in WikiLeaks.org’s cache of files obtained from hacked CIA wannabe Stratfor. Intelligence biz Stratfor was ransacked by Jeremy Hammond in late 2011, and its email archives passed to whistleblowing website WikiLeaks in early 2012. The Julian Assange™-led organization soon began distributing the archives using the BitTorrent file-sharing…
FireEye intern accused in huge hacking bust
CNN reports that one of those busted today in the huge Darkode takedown and associated crimes was a FireEye intern. Among those charged with crimes was Morgan Culbertson, a 20-year-old from Pittsburgh. He’s accused of creating a nasty malware that infects Android phones, steals data and controls the device. Culbertson is currently a sophomore at Carnegie Mellon…
Computer hack reveals identity of Syrians in contact with Israel
Elhanan Miller reports: Computer hackers likely working for the Syrian regime and Hezbollah have managed to penetrate the computers of Israeli and American activists working with the Syrian opposition, exposing sensitive contacts between the sides. Al-Akhbar, a newspaper serving as Hezbollah’s mouthpiece in Lebanon, published a series of articles over the weekend purporting to divulge…
Four months after confirming payment card breach, Mandarin Hotel begins notifying customers
Back on March 4, Brian Krebs reported that the Mandarin Hotel had confirmed a payment card breach affecting some customers. The breach wasn’t reported to the California Attorney General’s Office until today, however. In a letter from their external counsel, the hotel chain explains: On February 25, 2015, Mandarin Oriental was alerted to the suspected…
NY: Credit card information stolen from Hoffman Car Wash
Lindsay Nielsen reports: A local car wash is the victim of hackers, and the criminals are already using the cloned cards. A Guilderland woman, who did not want to be identified, said she’s been the victim of credit card fraud at two different car washes: the first at Colonial Car Wash, and most recently, at…