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Cybercrime Economy Generates $1.5 Trillion a Year

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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.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 21, 2018

LinkedIn Fixes User Data Leak Bug

LinkedIn has quietly patched a vulnerability which could have allowed malicious third parties to steal members’ personal data.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 20, 2018

Gold Galleon hackers target maritime shipping industry

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.

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Apr 19, 2018

Allscripts: Ransomware, recovery, and frustrated customers

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.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 15, 2018

The ransomware that says, “I don’t want money” – play a violent game instead!

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.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 14, 2018

Avoiding the Ransomware Mistakes that Crippled Atlanta

Last month, five of Atlanta's 13 government offices were "hijacked," as the city's mayor put it, by ransomware that disrupted far-reaching facets of the city’s digital infrastructure. From the courts to the police department to public works, government activity was essentially frozen as the hackers gave the city a week to pay the ransom – roughly $50,000 worth of bitcoin – or have critical data and processes deleted permanently.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 12, 2018

As legal threats rise, this new report aims to guide ethical hackers

Security researchers, ethical hackers, and bug hunters spend their days trying to make the world safer and more secure. And yet the US legal system makes it almost impossible for them to do their jobs, thanks to flimsy interpretations of long, outdated laws.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 10, 2018

Surprise: We're getting better at cybersecurity

Organizations are closing the skills and preparedness gap between hackers and themselves, improving a picture that's all too often painted as grim. That means we — at least those of us in the Western Hemisphere — are getting pretty good at cybersecurity, according to the latest numbers from one of the largest cybersecurity firms.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 07, 2018

Iran 'the New China' as a Pervasive Nation-State Hacking Threat

Of the four new advanced persistent threat (APT) groups christened by FireEye last year, three were out of Iran. Mandiant, the incident response services arm of FireEye, witnessed a major increase in nation-state hacking activity by Iranian attackers in 2017, especially on the cyber espionage side of things. Iranian groups now are maintaining and keeping a foothold in victim organizations for months and sometimes years, demonstrating their sophistication, according to Mandiant's newly published M Trends Report on its incident investigations in 2017.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 05, 2018

Saks, Lord & Taylor Payment Card Breach Affects 5 Million

Luxury department store behemoth Saks Fifth Avenue and sister stores Saks OFF 5TH and Lord & Taylor have become the latest retail victim of a data breach. The incident impacts 5 million payment cards that were used at stores in North America, from May 2017 to March 2018.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 03, 2018

150 million MyFitnessPal accounts compromised – here’s what to do

MyfitnessPal has been hacked! Because email addresses were among the information stolen, criminals have been able to send MyfitnessPal spear phishing emails for the past month. These spear phishing attacks are especially dangerous because stolen personal information that users had logged in the app can be used to make phishing emails very convincing and difficult to detect.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 02, 2018

Saks, Lord & Taylor hacked; 5 million payment cards compromised

Hackers made off with a whopping five million credit and debit card numbers from Saks Fifth Avenue, Saks Off 5th and Lord & Taylor, placing it “among the most significant credit card heists in modern history.”

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 02, 2018

Update Drupal ASAP: Over a million sites can be easily hacked by any visitor

Developers of popular open-source CMS Drupal are warning admins to immediately patch a flaw that an attacker can exploit just by visiting a vulnerable site.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 29, 2018

GoScanSSH Malware Targets Linux Servers

A recently discovered malware family written using the Golang (Go) programming language is targeting Linux servers and using a different binary for each attack, Talos warns.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 28, 2018

Cyberattack disrupted Baltimore emergency responders

There appears to be no honor among thieves. Threat actors have been cashing in on hacking and cyberattacks for years. Pillaging bank accounts, stealing identities, selling access to botnets to disrupt websites -- the possibilities are endless.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 28, 2018

As predicted, more branch prediction processor attacks are discovered

Researchers from the College of William and Mary, Carnegie Mellon, the University of California Riverside, and Binghamton University have described a security attack that uses the speculative execution features of modern processors to leak sensitive information and undermine the security boundaries that operating systems and software erect to protect important data.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 27, 2018

Thousands of etcd installs are leaking secret server keys online

Thousands of servers running etcd are exposing user credentials publicly on the Internet. According to security researcher Giovanni Collazo, a quick query made through the Shodan search engine revealed a total of 2,284 etcd servers which are leaking credentials, including the passwords and keys required for cms_admin, mysql_root, and postgres server infrastructure.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 26, 2018

A “tamper-proof” currency wallet just got backdoored by a 15-year-old

For years, executives at France-based Ledger have boasted their specialized hardware for storing cryptocurrencies is so securely designed that resellers or others in the supply chain can't tamper with the devices without it being painfully obvious to end users.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 21, 2018

Open-source Exim remote attack bug: 400,000 servers still vulnerable, patch now

Admins are being urged to update email server program Exim, patched in February, to close a remote execution flaw.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 07, 2018

Hacking operation uses malicious Word documents to target aid organisations

A newly uncovered 'nation-state level' cyber espionage operation has targeted humanitarian aid organisations around the globe via the use of backdoors hidden within malicious Word documents.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 05, 2018

Linux Hacks & Cracks - Page 22

U.S. Investigation into China-Backed Telecom Companies Hack: The Role & Risks of Encryption Backdoors

FASTCash Linux Malware: A New Cybercrime Menace Targeting Payment Switch Systems

The Infiltration of Supply Chain Attacks in Open-Source Software Management