Here you will find all the articles with the tag: Hackers.
The French police have taken over and neutralised a large botnet for cryptographic currency mining. The botnet managed nearly a million infected computers. It was the Retadup malware, writes Techcrunch. This malware infects computers and then uses processor power to minimize cryptographic currency. ... Read more
5 years ago
Cybercriminals have been working more and more closely together in recent years. In this way, hackers hope, among other things, to hide their identity. Cybercriminals also stack their attacks more often and have updated their techniques. Cybercriminals and groups are increasingly engaged in targete... Read more
5 years ago
Hackers have managed to invade SyTech, a contractor of the Russian secret service FSB. The group has stolen information about internal projects that the company was working on for the department. The hack took place on July 13th, writes ZDNet. A group called 0v1ru$ then managed to penetrate the Acti... Read more
5 years ago
Trend Micro security researchers have found that hackers can use the iOS URL Scheme to launch attacks on certain apps. Criminals may also steal sensitive user information from apps. The iOS URL Scheme was designed by Apple itself as a compensating workaround for its mobile sandbox technology. It is ... Read more
5 years ago
ICS-Forth, an organisation that manages large Greek domain names, has been the victim of a hack. The hackers behind the attack belong to a group that Cisco Talos described in April: Sea Turtle. ICS-Forth admitted the security incident in e-mails that it sent to domain owners on 19 April, according t... Read more
5 years ago
A group of hackers has broken into the systems of dozens of telecom companies worldwide. In doing so, they sampled large amounts of data from the past seven years. The cybercriminals are linked to the Chinese government by security company Cybereason. The hack campaign is now called Operation Soft ... Read more
5 years ago
The city council of Riviera Beach, a city in the American state of Florida, has decided to pay a ransomware group $600,000. In this way, the city council hopes to recover data that was encrypted in an attack three weeks ago. On 29 May, an employee of the police in Riviera Beach opened an e-mail, wh... Read more
5 years ago
A Chinese hacker group is currently scanning the Internet for Windows servers running MySQL databases. In this way, the hackers want to infect systems with GandCrab ransomware. ZDnet calls these attacks somewhat unique. So far, cyber security companies have not seen any actors threatening MySQL serv... Read more
5 years ago
A group of hackers has attacked a popular forum among a community of its rivals. Nearly 113,000 forum users - including email addresses, hacked passwords, IP addresses and private messages - were stolen. This is the OGUser.com forum, knows IT Pro. That forum is popular among a community of cybercrim... Read more
5 years ago
Hackers are said to have broken into the analytical service of Picreel and the open source project Alpaca Forms. The hackers would have adapted JavaScript files on the infrastructure of the two companies to add malicious code to over 4,600 websites. The attack is still active, security researchers o... Read more
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