Cybercrime

Although Twitter is no stranger to phishing scams, the latest incident does highlight serious flaws in Twitter's ad approval system.

Code signing certificates can be bought for under £1000 each, offering a back door into your system.

Since the source code for version 2.0.8.9 of the ZeuS trojan was leaked in 2011, other threat actors have taken inspiration from the malicious code.

Forever 21 has over 815 stores in 57 countries including the US, UK, Australia, China, India, Germany, Japan and Latin America.

UK-based Bitcoin exchange Exmo, took to Twitter to inform its users about having suffered a DDoS attack just days after one of its employees was kidnapped.

McAfee claims his Twitter account was used by unknown hackers to promote little-known cryptocurrencies.

"While these devices are never supposed to be exposed on the internet, we have shown that they can and will find their way directly on the internet," Trend Micro said.

The FBI reportedly purchased biometric data from a French firm, which contains code created by a Russian company with close ties to the Kremlin.

28-year-old Todd Michael Gori was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for threatening cyberattacks against a company.

The malware installs a Monero miner and a malicious Chrome extension, which helps it spread to other victims.

Security experts said that they detected a barrage of attacks exploiting the zero-day flaw, with the U.S., Italy, Germany and Egypt being hit the hardest.

The breach impacts Nissan's Canadian customers and may have involved hackers stealing extensive personal information.

Experts believe that the hackers were likely employed by a private company that was contracted by the Chinese military.

The WWE wrestler's private WhatsApp conversations and nude photos were also leaked by hackers just last month.

The hackers allegedly spoofed the website's domain and customers who unknowingly visited the fake site reportedly had their funds stolen.

Despite "password" constantly topping surveys as the riskiest password one could use, men seem to have a strong preference for this unsecure option, a new survey found.

"This case illustrates the Crime-as-a-Service (CaaS) model, as the services were offered to any criminal online," Europol said.

Some sites have found a new way to make money from you: using your computer to generate virtual currencies.

Security experts have linked the malware to the Sphinx cyberespionage campaign, which saw APT-C-15 hacker group target PC users in the Middle East.

Zachary Buchta admitted to running a phone-bombing scheme that let customers pay to target someone with relentless, harassing phone calls.

The South Korean Bitcoin exchange was first hacked in April, which saw hackers steal nearly 4,000 Bitcoins, now worth over $70m.

A 19-year-old computer hacker from the UK has avoided a jail sentence after admitting to launching a series of cyberattacks on high-profile firms including BT, O2 and Amazon.

The new malware variant indicates that the hacking group is still active and continues to improve their product, researchers said.

The attribution, reportedly supported by private security firms and the UK, serves as an aggressive move for the Trump administration.

Researchers at Palo Alto Networks look at Monero mining using Coinhive, one of the more popular browser-mining services.

British firms are stockpiling cryptocurrencies including bitcoin and ethereum so they can pay off hackers in the event of a ransomware or malware attack.

Moscow had dismissed hacking allegations as "baseless" while Trump has continued to denounce the ongoing Russia probe as a "witch hunt".

David Chukwuneke Adindu tricked victims into wiring millions of dollars into bank accounts he opened in China.

The malware surreptitiously harvests victims' credit card data, by conducting man-in-the-middle attacks.

Security experts suspect the malware, which has already been used against a target in the Middle East, was created by state-sponsored hackers.