cybercriminals

The top privacy data leaks in 2014 include: data breaches at Target and Home Depot, hacks of JP Morgan and Barclays banks, and leaks at Orange and Dropbox.

If you use an ATM card, you are of interest to carders. How do these criminals act and how can you keep your bank account safe?

We collected the 10 best tweets related to an IT security event in 2014.

A third-party plugin for WordPress CMS – RevSlider – made vulnerable up to 100K WordPress-based sites, with more than 10K blocked by Google for re-distributing malware they fell victims prior

Cybercrime is a rather lucrative business. Cybercriminals are earning a lot, or at least their effort-to-profit rate is good enough for them to keep going. But how good is it?

Kaspersky Lab revealed a cyberspy campaign, Darkhotel, which had been active for seven years in a number of luxury Asian hotels.

Using a trojan malware with the Russian name, Tyupkin, hackers made cash withdrawals without so much as accessing bank accounts.

The final month of summer wasn’t full of cybercriminal stories, but law enforcement groups around the world still found and punished some evildoers.

July is over and that means it’s time to look back and observe the latest results of the battle between cybercriminals and prosecutors.

The first summer month brought us news about the eternal confrontation of law enforcements and cybercriminals. Let’s see who was busted in June.

Microsoft hit hard at No-IP.com, a dynamic DNS service which was in active use by cybercriminals. However, the “collateral damage” toll appeared to be a little too high.

Big Data is widely used for security purposes, especially in the banking sphere. However, the amount of security-related data causes an issue of its own.

Big Data allowed to beat cyberfraudsters over the extended frontage. Unfortunately, they read the very same books as the security and Big Data experts.

A new criminal campaign targeting a large European bank had been discovered earlier this year – the Luuuk. For one week, criminals managed to steal as much as 500k Euros from 190 accounts, before they hastily withdrew from sight.

Cybercriminals go for small businesses the same way lions go for a herd of antelope: it’s the weakest that will go down. Yet there are a few simple safety rules that will allow your business to stay breach-free.

Two months have passed since the Heartbleed disclosure. Now it is time for a round-up: What damage did it inflict and what can we expect?

There was a lot of interesting news about hackers and other cybercriminals, so let’s see who has been busted in May.

May 2014 appears to be very stormy and volatile in regards to information security. Still overshadowed by Heartbleed and Windows XP “official demise” from April, it has brought a lot of troubles on its own.

The criminals continue their bad business, and law enforcement agencies successfully chase them down. It happens every month, so here are the most interesting cases from April.

April 2014 was destined to be the month ‘when Windows XP’ died, but this didn’t happen. The ‘Heartbleed’ bug outshone everything else. Still, there were incidents (unrelated to Heartbleed) worth mentioning.

The criminals continue to do their bad business and law enforcement agencies successfully chase them down. That happens every month, so here are the most interesting cases from March. A