Constant innovation by hackers is seeing a surge in attacks. The onus now falls on the industry, government and law enforcement to try and find a solution, reports Kate O’Flaherty.…
Day: October 1, 2015
Russian hacker, nabbed in Spain, cops 4+ years for Citadel botnet
Citadel operator finally sentenced. Alexander J Martin: Dimitry Belorossov a Russian cyber-criminal who used the Citadel banking trojan has been sentenced to four years and six months in…
Cyber criminals 'posing as CEOs to con staff into transferring them money'
Europol’s major review of online threats warns fraudsters are emaling or phoning employees with access to company funds. Paul Gallagher: Cyber criminals are posing as CEOs of companies and conning…
Thai government websites hit by denial-of-service attack
New internet proposals see DDoS response. Several Thai government websites have been hit by a suspected distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, making them impossible to access. The sites went offline at 22:00…
Chris Blackhurst: Lost thousands in a cyber scam? Sorry, there's nothing the banks can do
Increasingly, online criminals appear to be getting away with it. Chris Blackhurst: The other evening, the head of one our best-known banks asked me if I had any idea about…
PC support scams net con artists $1.5bn
Since May last year, Microsoft had dealt with more than 175,000 complaints about the bogus tech support calls. More than 3.3 million Americans will fall victim to fake PC support…