A mysterious cybercrime group apparently driven by profit has been targeting industrial organizations in Europe, Asia and North America as part of an information theft campaign.
A prominent underground online criminal forum by the name of Maza has been compromised by unknown attackers, making it the fourth forum to have been breached since the start of the year.
Two newly discovered forms of ransomware with very different traits show just how diverse the world of ransomware has become as more cyber criminals attempt to join in with cyber extortion.
Security researchers with threat intelligence firm Gemini Advisory say they have observed dark web activities related to bypassing 3D Secure (3DS), which is designed to improve the security of online credit and debit card transactions.
In a public disclosure, the Swiss outfit confirmed it had last month fallen victim to a wide-ranging data security incident that ensnared passengers from some of the world’s largest airlines.
Microsoft said this week that targets included infectious disease researchers, law firms, higher education institutions, defense contractors, policy think tanks, and non-governmental groups.
Dubbed GoldMax, GoldFinder, and Sibot, the new set of malware adds to a growing list of malicious tools such as Sunspot that were stealthily delivered to enterprise networks by alleged Russian operatives.
Besides 10 organizations in the Indian power sector and two ports, Chinese state-sponsored hackers might also have targeted Indian Railways infrastructure, an expert with cyber intelligence company Recorded Future said on Thursday.
Identified by Positive Technologies security researcher Alexander Popov, the high severity bugs resided in the virtual socket implementation of the Linux kernel. A total of five vulnerabilities were recently identified and fixed in the Linux kernel.
The Czech capital Prague and the Labour Ministry said there had been cyber attacks on their email systems but although the mayor of Prague said it was a large attack, he added the damage caused was limited.