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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.

Symantec has warned that user interest, paired with detection by security firms, will "trigger a new arms race between cybercriminals and defenders".

"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.

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

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.

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

Russian authorities are currently working to create a legal framework to regulate virtual currencies as their value and interest continues to boom.

Security experts believe that the prolific hacker group has launched a phishing campaign against cryptocurrency companies.

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.

Dr Richard Ford, Chief Scientist at Forcepoint, looks at attackers targeting vulnerabilities in cryptocurrencies.

Researchers found that around 27 of the top 100 most popular websites, as ranked by Alexa, were vulnerable to the ROBOT exploit.

Anonymous' call to arms to hacktivists across the world – hack, deface, dox, hijack, leak and DDoS any target linked to US and Israeli government.

Jha, a 21-year-old computer science student at Rutgers University, admitted to writing and implementing the Mirai code in July 2016.

Anonymous will reportedly launch a "destructive" cyberattack against the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) website in protest of plans to dismantle net neutrality

Numerous companies and websites have been found running similar code on their own sites to covertly generate digital currencies as an alternative to advertising.

A Google researcher had teased the release of the exploit last week, inflaming the infosec community about the potential uses of the tool.

"This experience of searching and finding passwords within this database is as scary as it is shocking," researchers said.

The week in cybersecurity was largely dominated by cryptocurrency. That's unsurprising, given that bitcoin spiked in value, reaching $17,000 at one point.

The trojan's varied capabilities include disabling the light indicator on the webcam and even triggering the Blue Screen of Death if anyone tries to shut down the process.

The critical remote code execution flaws have not been exploited in the wild and Microsoft has already issued a patch for them.

A Google security researcher tweeted about dropping a powerful iOS 11 tool, which the infosec community reportedly suspects may allow a full iPhone jailbreak.

The then-Uber CEO Travis Kalanic was reoprtedly aware of the breach and the bug bounty payment, which was made in November 2016.

Major banking applications used by HSBC, NatWest and Co-op had potential to let hackers steal usernames and passwords of account holders.

The state-sponsored hackers used Israeli-made spyware to spy targets residing in the US, Canada, UK, Germany, Australia, India and others.