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Hackers Steal $31m+ From South Korean Crypto-Exchange

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South Korean exchange Bithumb has been targeted by hackers for the second time in a year, this time losing over $31m in cryptocurrency.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 22, 2018

'Hidden Tunnels' Help Hackers Launch Financial Services Attacks

The security tools and strategies financial services organizations use to protect their data could be leveraged by cybercriminals who sneak in undetected via "hidden tunnels" to conceal their theft, according to a new report published by Vectra.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 21, 2018

Most Websites and Web Apps No Match for Attack Barrage

No matter how large or small, websites and web applications are under a constant barrage of attacks. Two new studies out today put a finer point on the numbers, showing just how frequently attacks hit the average website and how this constant pressure is yielding a huge number of compromised websites and web apps.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 20, 2018

Dixons Carphone Breach Hits 5.9 Million Cards

Millions of Dixons Carphone customers have had their financial and personal data illegally accessed after a major breach at the UK company.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 17, 2018

Bank of Chile Suffers $10m Loss

Banco de Chile publicly disclosed on 28 May that it had detected a virus, presumably from international networks, that affected thousands of its workstations. Now the bank has learned that the cyber-attack was malware and resulted in attackers transferring approximately $10m via the bank's SWIFT international money transfer systems.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 16, 2018

23,000 Compromised in HealthEquity Data Breach

Sometimes all it takes is one employee to spark a cybersecurity wildfire, as HealthEquity learned this week. The company, which handles more than 3.4 million health savings accounts, suffered a data breach when an unauthorized person accessed an employee's email account.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 15, 2018

Trial of two men accused of $20m hacked press release fraud begins

We didn’t know the information that made us rich was stolen from PR agencies! That appears to be the defence proffered by two defendants in the hacked press release trial.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 14, 2018

Serious Security: How three minor bugs make one major exploit

More insecure webcams! Inattention to IoT security! Who would have thought?

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 13, 2018

UK watchdog issues $330k fine for Yahoo’s 2014 data breach

Another fallout from the massive Yahoo data breach that dates back to 2014: The UK’s data watchdog has just issued a £250,000 (~$334k) penalty for violations of the Data Protection Act 1998.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 12, 2018

FBI Slaps New Charges Against Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry

Any hopes that Marcus Hutchins, the British security researcher credited with stopping WannaCry, might have harbored about a quick resolution of a US malware case against him were dashed this week with the FBI slapping four new charges against him.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 10, 2018

Chinese hackers stole undersea warfare data from US Navy contractor

Hackers associated with the Chinese government have broken into a US Navy contractor's systems and stolen data about undersea warfare. According to The Washington Post, these include secret plans to create a new anti-ship missile usable on US submarines by 2020.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 09, 2018

How NATO Defends Against the Dark Side of the Web

"Oops, your files have been encrypted!" This was the chilling message that greeted hundreds of thousands of computer users last summer.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 09, 2018

Bug Bounty Payouts Up 73% Per Vulnerability: Bugcrowd

The past year was a big one for bug bounties, with more programs offering more money to more researchers. Bug bounty programs grew 40% year-over-year, the average payout per vulnerability rose 73% to reach $781, and the number of Bugcrowd researchers grew by 71%.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 08, 2018

#Infosec18: Nation State Hacking is Biggest Change in Cyber-Threat Landscape

The former director general of GCHQ Robert Hannigan took to the keynote stage at Infosecurity Europe 2018 to discuss the evolving cyber-threat landscape, describing how – whilst changes in sophistication of lone actors and cyber-criminals are increasing the challenges of keeping data secure – it is the rise of nation state attacks that is “possibly the biggest change in the last couple of years.”

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 07, 2018

Security fail? One in three companies think paying hackers is worth the risk

A third of organisations would consider paying a ransom to hackers instead of investing more in security a survey has claimed.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 04, 2018

Customer Data Flies Away with Ticketfly Hacker

Ticket distribution service Ticketfly was hacked by a culprit who took responsibility for defacing the company's homepage with a message citing poor security as the reason for not apologizing.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 03, 2018

Two Canadian Banks Warn Customers of Possible Breach

Two Canadian banks confirmed on Monday that they have been contacted by ‘fraudsters’ claiming to have in their possession personal and financial information on tens of thousands of customers.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 31, 2018

Security alert: FBI warns of password-stealing North Korean malware

US authorities have provided more details of two pieces of malware which, they said, are used by North Korean hackers to infiltrate computer systems and steal passwords and other data.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 30, 2018

Spear-Phisher Gets Five Years for Helping FSB Yahoo Hackers

A Canadian man has been handed down a five-year prison sentence for his part in a Russian government conspiracy which resulted in the compromise of 500 million Yahoo accounts.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 30, 2018

FBI to all router users: Reboot now to neuter Russia's VPNFilter malware

The FBI is urging small businesses and households to immediately reboot routers following Cisco's report that 500,000 infected devices could be destroyed with a single command.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 29, 2018

Linux Hacks & Cracks - Page 20

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