Kate Dries reports: The website for the vegan makeup company Lime Crime, whose wares are sold by Urban Outfitters and Nasty Gal, among others, admitted they’d been hacked earlier this week and that customer information has been compromised. But customers are up in arms over the way the site handled telling them that – or…
Category: Malware
Alex Yücel, co-creator of Blackshades RAT, pleads guilty
Well, he reportedly tried to back out of his plea deal less than two weeks ago, but yesterday, Alex Yücel, the co-creator of the Blackshades Remote Access Tool, pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to one count of distribution of malicious software. Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the plea,…
Credit card info stolen in Big Fish Games site compromise
Help Net Security reports: Seattle-based casual gaming company Big Fish Games has has (sic) its site and personal and financial information of some of its users compromised in an attack that started on last Christmas Eve. “An unknown criminal installed malware on the billing and payment pages of our website that appears to have intercepted…
Beyond Stuxnet and Flame: Equation ‘most advanced’ cybercriminal gang recorded (updated)
Charlie Osborne reports: Kaspersky Labs has discovered the “ancestor” of Stuxnet and Flame, a threat actor which surpasses everything else in complexity and technique sophistication. On Monday at the Kaspersky Labs Security Analyst Summit, the firm unveiled research concerning the existence of a cyberattack team dubbed The Equation Group. The group, which Kaspersky Lab Global…
Bank Hackers Steal Millions via Malware
David E. Sanger and Nicole Perlroth report: …. In a report to be published on Monday, and provided in advance to The New York Times, Kaspersky Lab says that the scope of this attack on more than 100 banks and other financial institutions in 30 nations could make it one of the largest bank thefts…
Accused BlackShades owner, “marjinz,” seeks to back out of plea deal
Joseph Ax reports: A Swedish man who had been set to plead guilty on Monday to resolve U.S. charges stemming from his alleged creation of malicious software used to hack a half-million computers worldwide has apparently backed out of the deal, according to court records. Read more on Reuters (UK).