Jeff Mays and Murray Weiss report: The hacking attack that left city agencies unable to receive some emails last week may have originated from somewhere near Russia and was an attempt to scam city employees and others out of money, according to law enforcement sources. And it may be more widespread than previously believed, with workers at…
Category: Malware
$3 Million Reward Offered for GameOver Zeus Botnet Mastermind
Today in Washington, D.C., the U.S. State Department, the Department of Justice, and the FBI announced a reward of up to $3 million for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev, currently one of the FBI’s most wanted—and most prolific—cyber criminals, for his alleged involvement in a major cyber racketeering enterprise….
IL: Midlothian cops pay ransom to retrieve data from hacker
Gregory Pratt reports: A south suburban police department paid a $500 ransom to an unidentified hacker to regain access to data from a police computer the hacker managed to disable, records show. Midlothian in January was hit with a form of computer virus called Cryptoware, said Calvin Harden Jr., an IT vendor who works with…
Lime Crime’s Website Is Hacked, Customer Information Stolen
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…
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…