Roman Valerevich Seleznev, a 32-year-old Russian national known online as “Track2,” has been convicted by a federal jury in the United States for his role in a major hacking scheme that is estimated to have cost banks more than $169 million.
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Why Chief Information Security Officers Need Their Own Cockpits
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Continue readingKaspersky Patches Vulnerabilities in Consumer Products
Kaspersky Lab has released updates for its consumer products to address several denial-of-service (DoS) and memory disclosure vulnerabilities identified by researchers at Cisco’s Talos group.
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RIPPER ATM Malware Linked to Thailand Heist
The malicious software used earlier this month to steal 12 million baht ($346,000) from ATMs at banks in Thailand might be a new ATM malware variant called RIPPER, FireEye researchers reveal.
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iPhone Spyware Spotlights Israel’s Secretive Surveillance Industry
The discovery of sophisticated spyware to infiltrate and remotely take control of iPhones without leaving a trace has put a spotlight on Israel's secretive surveillance industry, considered among the world's most advanced.
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St. Jude Refutes Medical Device Vulnerability Claims
Medical device manufacturer St. Jude Medical (STJ) has denied that its products are plagued by serious vulnerabilities following a controversial disclosure by MedSec and Muddy Waters that forced the vendor to temporarily suspend trading.
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User Data Possibly Stolen in Opera Sync Breach
Norway-based browser company Opera advised Sync customers on Friday to change their passwords after someone hacked the service and possibly accessed user data.
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Ramnit Banking Trojan Resumes Activity
After an eight-month pause, the Ramnit Trojan has resurfaced with two new live attack servers and a new command and control (C&C) server, IBM researchers reveal.
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F-Secure’s Mikko Hypponen Talks Cyber Crime and Cyber Unicorns
At some point in the recent past — he is not sure exactly when — F-Secure's Chief Research Officer Mikko Hypponen coined the term 'cyber crime unicorn'. His purpose was to highlight the growing professionalism of cyber criminals; and the term caught on. Now he has asked the question seriously: could a ransomware product actually be a criminal tech unicorn; that is, a start-up business valued at more than $1 billion?
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Industry Reactions to Shadow Brokers Leak: Feedback Friday
A group calling itself Shadow Brokers has leaked many exploits, implants and other tools allegedly stolen from the NSA-linked Equation Group, and it claims to possess much more information that it’s prepared to sell for 1 million Bitcoins.
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