There’s been a reported payment card breach involving the Detroit Zoo‘s gift shop’s third-party vendor: Service Systems Associates is reporting stolen credit card information. Malicious software, or “malware,” was found in SSA’s software, affecting purchases made at the zoo gift shops between March 23 and June 25, 2015. In addition to credit and debit card…
Category: Malware
UK online banking users hit with Dyre malware phishing attacks
Jason Murdock reports: Online banking customers in the UK are being warned of a major phishing campaign using a notorious piece of malware designed to steal financial data. Customers of Barclays, Santander and Lloyds TSB are being targeted by the trojan malware known as Dyre. Nearly 20,000 malicious emails have been sent in the last…
Researchers find previously unknown exploits among Hacking Team’s leaked files
Lucian Constantin reports: Researchers sifting through 400GB of data recently leaked from Hacking Team, an Italian company that sells computer surveillance software to government agencies from around the world, have already found an exploit for an unpatched vulnerability in Flash Player. There are also reports of exploits for a vulnerability in Windows and one in…
Bitstamp Incident Report (February, 2015)
From the introduction of the report: This is a confidential report prepared by George Frost, General Counsel of Bitstamp Limited (“Bitstamp” or the “the Company”). This report includes information gleaned from Bitstamp’s own records (including contemporaneous emails, forensic evidence and witness interviews), and derived from ongoing investigative reporting provided by the Stroz Friedberg private investigative…
College student tops Brazilian banking malware creator list
Charlie Osborne reports: A 20-year-old college student living in Brazil has developed and distributed over 100 Trojans tailored to steal financial information worth roughly $300 each, researchers say. The Trend Micro security team says a student from Tocantins, Brazil, has become one of the country’s top banking malware creators. The Computer Science student goes under the alias…
Europol brings down Zeus, SpyEye cybercriminals
The Local reports: Investigators from six different European countries, including Austria, have succeeded in bringing down a cybercriminal group in Ukraine. Europol said that the action, which took place in Ukraine on June 18th and 19th, resulted in five arrests and the confiscation of computer equipment and other devices for further investigation. The high-level cybercriminals…