Internet of Things

492 articles

Malware, Cybercrime

“I can make money from it, so why not”: The criminals who hack webcams to spy on young girls

Malware, Cybercrime

“I can make money from it, so why not”: The criminals who hack webcams to spy on young girls

An investigation by a British talk radio station has shone light on the hackers who spy on young girls via webcams on compromised PCs.

Rob Waugh • 20 Jun 2013

Malware

Needles and haystacks - the art of threat attribution

Malware

Needles and haystacks - the art of threat attribution

ESET researchers explain the difficulties in attribution of targeted attacks; evidence is often circumstantial and the source never positively identified.

Aryeh Goretsky • 17 Jun 2013

Malware, Cybercrime

Quantum Dawn 2 cyber war game to test defenses of U.S. banks

Malware, Cybercrime

Quantum Dawn 2 cyber war game to test defenses of U.S. banks

A simulated cyber attack with the Hollywood-esque title Quantum Dawn 2 will bombard the defenses of American banks on June 28 - in an exercise designed to test how Wall Street would endure a sustained hi-tech assault.

Rob Waugh • 16 Jun 2013

Malware, Cybercrime

Microsoft liberates two million PCs from $500m cybercrime botnet

Malware, Cybercrime

Microsoft liberates two million PCs from $500m cybercrime botnet

Microsoft has said that it has “liberated” two million PCs worldwide from Citadel botnets after an action on June 5 which targeted 1,400 networks.

Rob Waugh • 16 Jun 2013

Malware, Scams, Cybercrime

Banks "ignore early warnings" of cyber attacks, says Australian security chief

Malware, Scams, Cybercrime

Banks "ignore early warnings" of cyber attacks, says Australian security chief

Banks should look to spam emails and their own server errors as a source of information, says Nicholas Scott of National Australia Bank (NAB), speaking at the RSA Conference Asia-Pacific in Singapore.

Rob Waugh • 07 Jun 2013

Malware, Cybercrime

British Prime Minister warned over Huawei security risks

Malware, Cybercrime

British Prime Minister warned over Huawei security risks

British Prime Minister David Cameron has been warned that telecoms equipment made by Chinse firm Huawei should be tested by security services to protect against cyber attacks.

Rob Waugh • 06 Jun 2013

Malware, Cybercrime

FBI and Microsoft break up $500 million Citadel botnet

Malware, Cybercrime

FBI and Microsoft break up $500 million Citadel botnet

Microsoft and the FBI have broken up a large portion of the Citadel botnet - a network which had stolen $500 million from bank accounts in 90 countries around the world by installing keylogger software on five million machines.

Rob Waugh • 06 Jun 2013

Malware

Operation Hangover: more links to the Oslo Freedom Forum incident

Malware

Operation Hangover: more links to the Oslo Freedom Forum incident

In our previous post on Operation Hangover, we revealed the existence of an attack group, apparently operating from within India, who were mainly targeting systems in Pakistan. In this post, we will analyze the Mac OS X samples that have been linked to this group and will provide new evidence that the Mac and Windows spywares are related.

Jean-Ian Boutin • 05 Jun 2013

Malware, Cybercrime

Drupal.org resets passwords after hack exposes usernames, email addresses

Malware, Cybercrime

Drupal.org resets passwords after hack exposes usernames, email addresses

The free open-source content management system Drupal has reset all Drupal.org passwords after unknown attackers gained access to user account data including usernames, email addresses and hashed passwords.

Rob Waugh • 30 May 2013