Cybercrime

Up to 17.4 million Android users downloaded a form of Trojan malware found in 144 separate mobile applications, security researchers from McAfee warned this week.

Jason Murdock Nov 15, 2017

The hijacked radio station is allegedly used by the Kim Jong-un regime to transmit secret codes days before Pyongyang conducts a weapons test.

India Ashok Nov 15, 2017

The new alerts come amid rising tensions between the US and North Korea over Pyongyang's rapid advancement of its nuclear programme and defiant missile tests.

Hyacinth Mascarenhas Nov 15, 2017

Customers' names, email addresses, passwords, billing addresses, phone numbers, payment details and more may have been stolen by hackers.

India Ashok Nov 15, 2017

National Cyber Security Centre chief Ciaran Martin will confirm that Moscow hacked the UK's energy grid to try to cause a blackout in Britain.

Brendan Cole Nov 14, 2017

IcedID is fairly new to the cybercrime arena, and its capabilities are believed to be on par with other sophisticated Trojans like Dridex and Zeus.

India Ashok Nov 14, 2017

Hacking groups linked to North Korea will continue to devastate the UK with major cyberattacks over the next year, former GCHQ director Robert Hannigan has warned.

Jason Murdock Nov 13, 2017

Last week, over 580 Parity wallets containing millions of dollars worth of Ethereum were mysteriously locked down and inaccessible.

India Ashok Nov 11, 2017

From the return of WikiLeaks to the Nepal bank cyber-heist: Here are the biggest cybersecurity stories of the week from the IBTimes UK technology team.

Jason Murdock Nov 11, 2017

The Dark Overlord hackers stole a trove of confidential photos of high-profile clients from the plastic surgery clinic last month.

India Ashok Nov 11, 2017

A cybercrime group is causing havoc in the US and Canada by hacking into the websites of police stations and schools and defacing them with pro-Islamic State propaganda.

Jason Murdock Nov 09, 2017

Joseph Willner and his co-conspirators made at least $700,000 in profits through the hack-and-trade scheme

Hyacinth Mascarenhas Nov 09, 2017

The use of two notorious strains of banking Trojan that are able to silently infect computers, steal login details and empty accounts has spiked in recent months.

Jason Murdock Nov 08, 2017

The hacker reportedly claims that he can track international flight data, access tax records and Interpol searches.

India Ashok Nov 08, 2017

Officials from the NIC Asia Bank based in Kathmandu have been scrambling in recent weeks to recover from a hack on its computer networks.

Jason Murdock Nov 07, 2017

A Reddit user claimed that the UFC site is running the Coinhive javascript and secretly mining cryptocurrency.

India Ashok Nov 07, 2017

SchoolDesk is currently working with various local, state and federal law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, to investigate the source of the attack.

Hyacinth Mascarenhas Nov 07, 2017

Hackers were reportedly distributing the ransomware, which may be linked to Russia, via a new phishing campaign.

India Ashok Nov 07, 2017

Some of the websites compromised belong to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, China's BDStar and the Armed Forces of the Philippines among others.

Hyacinth Mascarenhas Nov 07, 2017

The Crunchyroll site was taken offline after hackers "gained access" to its Cloudflare configuration to serve up visitors with malware.

India Ashok Nov 06, 2017

The British wrestler Saraya-Jade Bevis, who goes by the name Paige, was targeted by hackers earlier in March as part of the so-called "Fappening 2.0".

Staff Reporter Nov 06, 2017

The sites were reportedly infiltrated a few months before Trump traveled to Moscow for the Miss Universe pageant in November 2013.

Hyacinth Mascarenhas Nov 06, 2017

The latest breach impacted six websites, including Toyotanation.com and Jeepforum.com – the company's second most popular website.

Hyacinth Mascarenhas Nov 06, 2017

Equifax has drawn intense scrutiny since the disclosure of the massive hack that compromised valuable personal and financial information of 145.5 million Americans.

Hyacinth Mascarenhas Nov 04, 2017

Deep Instinct researchers noticed a new, modified variant of the malware is being distributed via spam emails with Office documents attached.

Hyacinth Mascarenhas Nov 04, 2017

The AP investigation revealed that Russian-linked hackers used brute force tactics for months to try and break into the emails of people across the Democratic Party.

Hyacinth Mascarenhas Nov 04, 2017

The APT group's new corporate espionage campaign makes use of phishing emails and specialised malware to spy on and steal from targets.

India Ashok Nov 04, 2017

Hackers are reportedly taking advantage of Google's algorithms to infect people with banking malware, gaming the system by using search engine optimisation (SEO) tactics.

Jason Murdock Nov 03, 2017

A corrupt banking insider working for Barclays, and four other men, have been jailed after helping a gang of Eastern European hackers launder £16m.

Jason Murdock Nov 03, 2017

Despite the size of the botnet, Sean Tiernan insisted that the profits made from the scheme were "comparatively small".

Hyacinth Mascarenhas Nov 03, 2017