Cybersecurity

The incident comes as cryptojacking heists become increasingly common and sophisticated alongside the rise and popularity of cryptocurrency.

"We believe this is the next team to watch," FireEye's director of intelligence analysis John Hultquist said.

Authorities said thousands have already fallen victim to the scheme described as a "new twist on an old scam".

The finding immediately triggered fierce uproar with many saying "there is absolutely no justification" for including a password stealer in a flight simulation add-on.

Hackers have been found targeting several vulnerabilities in different servers to secretly install cryptomining software and generate digital currencies using victims' resources.

Hackers have targeted a slew of banks worldwide in recent years to gain illegal access to the Swift network and initiate fraudulent money transfers.

"We take the security of personally identifiable information very seriously," California's Department of Fish and Wildlife said.

For their roles in what US prosecutors have called "one of the largest" known cybercrime schemes, two Russian nationals were handed lengthy prison terms this week.

More than 110,000 scanned ID documents including passports and driving licences linked to a subsidiary of delivery firm FedEx was left exposed online, experts reveal.

GPU manufacturers are scrambling to deal with rapidly rising demand for graphics cards.

The new variant of AndroRAT disguises itself as an app called TrashCleaner, which once installed, can allow hackers to perform various malicious activities.

"Salon never has access to your personal files or information during this process," the media site notes.

Widely believed to be linked to the North Korean regime, Lazarus Group has been linked to the 2014 Sony hack and the WannaCry ransomware attack in 2017 among others.

The hacker group created customised chat apps with backdoor functionalities for both Android and Windows.

Over the past few months, security experts have observed a steady rise in cryptojacking attacks, malware-based miners and browser-based cryptominers.

Over the past few months, researchers observed an uptick in phishing campaigns targeting several Olympics organisations by the Kremlin-linked hacking group Fancy Bear.

The incident comes as cybercriminals increasingly look to tap into the growing digital currency market with cryptojacking attacks, malware and more

"Best international practice says that you don't talk about an attack," IOC spokesman Mark Adams said.

"DNS is still often treated differently providing a golden opportunity to leak data," Forcepoint researchers said.

The three-year-old code was initially stolen by a former Apple intern who shared it with a group of five friends in the iOS jailbreaking community.

A separate database that contained personal details of 53,000 current and former Sacramento Bee subscribers was also compromised.

The case has been dubbed "one of the largest cyber fraud enterprise prosecutions ever undertaken" by the Justice Department.

"I clicked on it and instantly knew that I had been had," one retired Air Force major general, who was sent a dubious phishing link, said.

The company said there is currently no indication to suggest this data was downloaded or accessed by any Mixpanel employee or third party.

For anyone typing quickly or letting browser autocomplete lead them to the "right" website, they may be just one letter away from being led to the dubious phishing website.

"Those infected devices are actively trying to spread malicious code," researchers said.

Cybercriminals managed to infiltrate the site and install maliciously modified copies of the Firefox, OnyX and Deeper applications.

The social media influencers included in this database, mostly young and female, span across the globe from France to the rest of Europe and the US.

Similar to other ransomware, Scarabey demands a Bitcoin payment from victims after infecting their system and encrypting all files.

Trend Micro has observed hackers abusing session-replay scripts to view what a victim does on every site they visit during a browsing session.