A US-based man has pleaded guilty to creating a giant botnet that was used to disrupt access to much of the web in October 2016. The Mirai malware also caused…
Day: December 14, 2017
Barclay's Employee sentenced for aiding malware thieves
Barclays bank bod in the cooler for aiding Dridex money launderers Six years’ porridge. Dridex not laundry soap – it’s a Trojan By Richard Priday An employee of Barclays Bank…
Spider Spins a Ransomware Web
Tara Seals A ransomware named Spider has been crawling around the web, using decoy documents to lure victims in the Balkans into its lair with threats of “debt collection”. According…
Starbucks cafe's wi-fi made computers mine crypto-currency
By Leo Kelion Starbucks has acknowledged that visitors to one of its branches were unwittingly recruited into a crypto-currency mining operation. The wi-fi service provided by one of the coffee…