Cybercrime

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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".

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

The Turkish hacking group named Akincila previously targeted a number of Dutch websites, and posted pro-Turkish and anti-European messages.

Hackers have compromised a major database maintained by Hetzner Ltd, one of the largest data centre and web hosting services in South Africa.

Predator from Luton who was caught with an "application form for a secret paedophile club" on his computer has been handed a two-year suspended sentence.

In 2013, hackers with links to Russia allegedly infiltrated the Trump Organisation computer networks, but unlike the Democratic Party attacks years later, did not steal emails.

The malware has been around since last year and has been targeting popular cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, ZCash, Ethereum, Monero and others.

At least 10 financial institutions around the world have been hit with a new banking Trojan by an alleged Russian-speaking cybercrime group codenamed "Silence".

21-year-old Alex Bessell from Liverpool has been accused of using a 9,000-strong botnet army to launch attacks on Google, Skype and Pokemon servers.

A phishing campaign has been spotted spreading via Facebook Messenger and targeting users across Europe including Germany, Sweden and Finland, security experts have found.

Inspired by Guy Fawkes and the mask made famous by the movie "V for Vendetta", the 5 November event will see Trafalgar Square in Westminster become the centre of attention.

A hacking group called The Dark Overlord is currently threatening to leak the internal client data of a Hollywood production studio called Line 204, IBTimes UK has learned.