Elinor Mills reports: Symantec is warning about a new Trojan horse that encrypts files on compromised computers but offers no ransom note like other software designed to hold data hostage for a fee. Instead, a Web search for terms related to the Trojan horse leads to a company offering a way to remove the malware….
Category: Malware
London cyber criminals face jail over Natwest fraud
Asavin Wattanajantra reports: London-based cyber criminals face jail after siphoning off £600,000 from bank customers with a trojan virus. According to a report in the West Sussex County Times, the criminals used a trojan to infected computers, which waited until a user logged onto an account and then slithered its way into online cash transfer…
Operation Phish Phry reels in 100 in U.S. and Egypt
The largest number of defendants ever charged in a cyber crime case have been indicted in a multinational investigation conducted in the United States and Egypt that uncovered a sophisticated “phishing” operation that fraudulently collected personal information from thousands of victims that was used to defraud American banks. This morning, authorities in several United States…
Gmail, AOL and Yahoo logins posted online; weak passwords
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…
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….