Brian Krebs writes: A California escrow firm has been forced to take out a pricey loan to pay back $465,000 that was stolen when hackers hijacked the company’s online bank account earlier this year. In March, computer criminals broke into the network of Redondo Beach based Village View Escrow Inc. and sent 26 consecutive wire…
Category: Malware
Massive keylogger cache posted to Pastebin.com
Steve Ragan reports: Details for thousands of accounts, from Facebook to PayPal, have surfaced over the weekend on Pastebin.com. The details, which come from keylogging software, appear to have been dumped automatically to the site based on observations from BitDefender, who tipped The Tech Herald off to their existence on Friday. Along with usernames and…
Il: Hacker Arrested for Stealing Bank Info
Short item from Israel National News: A 21 year old Or Akiva resident has been arrested on suspicion that he hacked into computers and stole personal details – including bank account details – from dozens of people. The hacker used a trojan horse, working in the background and collecting data from its victims, and forwarding…
Olympus apologises after shipping malware-laced cameras in Japan
John Leyden reports: Olympus has apologised after it distributed a digital camera in Japan that came with added malware on its internal memory card. An estimated 1,700 Stylus Tough 6010 digital compact cameras shipped pre-pwned with auto-run code designed to infect Windows PCs they were connected to, net security firm Sophos reports. The malware uses…
Security breach exposes Tufts alumni records (UPDATE)
Thousands of Tufts University alumni have received letters over the past few days warning about a computer security breach that may have left their social security numbers and other personal information exposed. According to school officials, several computers were exposed to an unknown virus or malicious software program. The computers contained old student files and…
Another Small Company Takes a Financial Hit on the Cyber Chin
Matthew Gardiner writes: Similar to the case of Hillary Machinery that I previously blogged about, another small company, DKG Enterprises, has recently taken a nearly $100K hit from cyber thieves. Very simply the thieves stole the corporate controller’s banking credentials, fraudulently transferred money to multiple mules, and voila, goodbye $100K. The headline of the KrebsonSecurity…