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Bet nobody in your high school got in trouble for this: a 16-year-old hacker was arrested in Concord, California for launching a phishing campaign to steal teachers' login data and change grades. The student, whose name was withheld because he's a minor, faces 14 felony counts.
One of the major issues in IT security is not that attacks and exploits are successful. It's that they're successful and then go unnoticed for so long.
As many as five Mexican banks may have been targeted by what appears to be a highly co-ordinated cyber-attack in which unauthorized transfers were made to bogus accounts.
Social engineering tactics are the bread and butter of hackers. Preying on trust, malicious actors are able to lure users into sharing personal information, even login credentials.
Despite companies increasing their security budgets and investing a fortune in the best cybersecurity tools, organizations today are subject to more successful breaches than ever before – with five million data records lost or stolen every day, according to the fifth annual Cyberthreat Defense Report from CyberEdge group and sponsored by Gigamon.
The Islamic Republic of Iran commonly responds to sanctions with offensive cyber-campaigns. Since at least 2009, Iran has relied on cyber-attacks to achieve many of its policy goals.
UK small businesses are up to 20 times more likely to suffer damaging data breaches than their larger counterparts, according to new data from Terbium Labs.
Jury selection is set to begin in Virginia in the trial of a Latvian man accused of running a hacking operation offering malware products and services to cybercriminals.
Under-fire credit reporting agency Equifax has released updated figures clarifying the types and volumes of data stolen in its massive 2017 breach.
A new phishing scam capitalizes on the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to trick Airbnb customers into sharing personal and financial data, Redscan reports. The scale of the campaign is unknown, though it likely targets email addresses taken from the open Web.
It happened again. Another major web service lost control of its database, and now you’re scrambling to stay ahead of the bad guys.
A severe vulnerability in a widely used industrial control software could have been used to disrupt and shut down power plants and other critical infrastructure.
Much like the rest of the world, healthcare organizations are shifting work to cloud services in order to improve accessibility and patient care. However, the migration of these workloads and moving valuable information such as PHI (personal health information) and PII (personally identifiable information) to the cloud has also led to cybercriminals taking a particular interest in the industry.
Some 43% of UK businesses have experienced a security breach or cyber-attack in the past 12 months, a slight drop from a year previously, according to the latest government research.
Being hit by ransomware must be bad enough when you don’t have a secure backup of your critical data that you can turn to. Just imagine how it feels to then be ripped off a second time by the data recovery firm you turn to for help in your moment of panic.
If cybercrime was a country, it would have the 13th highest GDP in the world. Attackers generate $1.5 trillion in annual profit, which is about equal to the GDP of Russia, according to a new study on the interconnected economy of cybercrime.
LinkedIn has quietly patched a vulnerability which could have allowed malicious third parties to steal members’ personal data.
Researchers have uncovered a Nigerian hacking ring which targets maritime shipping firms in order to try and steal millions of dollars on an annual basis.
The actors behind SamSam launched an attack against Allscripts in January 2018, leaving the company’s customers without access to the services needed to run their medical practices — some for more than a week.
Not all ransomware is made equal. To be clear, we’re not for a moment suggesting that any form of ransomware is technically, ethically, morally or legally acceptable.
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