Charles Arthur of The Guardian suggests that the leaked email passwords may affect even more people than previously suggested: More than a quarter of a million email accounts on the biggest webmail services are believed to be at risk from online criminals after thousands of passwords belonging to users of the Yahoo, AOL and Gmail…
Category: Malware
Confirmed: Thousands of Hotmail passwords leaked online (updated)
Tom Warren reports: Neowin has received information regarding a possible Windows Live Hotmail “hack” or phishing scheme where password details of thousands of Hotmail accounts have been posted online. An anonymous user posted details of the accounts on October 1 at pastebin.com, a site commonly used by developers to share code snippets. The details have…
URLZone touted as most sophisticated banking trojan yet
Angela Moscaritolo reports: A new banking trojan called URLZone enabled cybercriminals to steal roughly $439,000 from German bank accounts during a recent 22-day crime spree, according to researchers at web security firm Finjan. “So far, this is the most sophisticated bank trojan that we have seen,” Yuval Ben-Itzhak, CTO of Finjan, told SCMagazineUS.com on Wednesday….
Man on trial over £600k NatWest phishing scam
John Leyden reports: Fraudsters used a sophisticated Trojan to steal online bank login credentials from the compromised PCs of their victims, London’s Southwark Crown Court heard on Tuesday. The malware redirected surfers to a counterfeit NatWest bank website that attempted to trick prospective marks into handing over telephone numbers, passwords, and bank card PINs under…
Hackers Breach Payroll Giant, Target Customers
Brian Krebs reports: Hackers last week apparently used stolen account information from a New Jersey company that provides online payroll services to target the firm’s customers in a scheme to steal passwords and other information. […] Unlike typical so-called “phishing” scams — which are sent indiscriminately to large numbers of people in the hopes that…
FBI: Virus suspected in school thefts
Brett Rowland and Kate Schott report: As much as $350,000 reported stolen from Crystal Lake District 47 bank accounts earlier this summer could be linked to cyberthefts at other suburban schools. The FBI’s Chicago office is investigating the cases, at least one of which involves a hard-to-detect computer virus. No arrests have been made or…