Hackers once again took a swing at the Locky distribution network and replaced the malicious payload with a benign file, researchers at F-Secure report.
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ATMs Targeted With Improved “Skimer” Malware
Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have come across a new and improved version of an old piece of malware that allows cybercriminals to steal money and payment card data from ATMs.
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Ukrainian Pleads Guilty in Hack-for-Profit Scheme
A Ukrainian national has pleaded guilty to charges of hacking into databases holding unpublished company press releases to gain insider information that led to $30 million in illicit gains, officials said.
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Indiana Hospital DeKalb Health Disrupted by Ransomware Attack
Nobody likes to admit to a breach – but when the breach involves ransomware it cannot be denied for long. Visitors cannot access public-facing systems and they they start to ask questions. This is what happened at DeKalb Health, an Auburn, Indiana-based hospital.
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Google to Soon Kill SSLv3, RC4 Support in Gmail
Starting on June 16, 2016, the old SSLv3 and RC4 security protocols will no longer be supported on Google’s SMTP servers and on Gmail’s web servers.
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Apple Patches Flaws in iOS, OS X, Other Products
Updates released on Monday by Apple for OS X, iOS, iTunes, Safari, tvOS and watchOS patch tens of vulnerabilities discovered by external researchers and the company’s own security team.
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Critical Vulnerability in Symantec AV Engine Exploited by Just Sending an Email
Symantec has updated its Antivirus Engine (AVE) to address a critical memory corruption vulnerability discovered by Google Project Zero researcher Tavis Ormandy.
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Snowden Files Set for Wider Release
The full cache of secret documents from former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden is being opened to journalists and organizations willing to work with the news organization holding the archive.
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Attackers Deliver Latest Flash Exploit via Malicious Documents
FireEye has shared some technical details on the Flash Player zero-day that was patched last week by Adobe and revealed that attackers have been exploiting the vulnerability via specially crafted Microsoft Office documents.
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Vietnam’s Tien Phong Bank Victim of SWIFT-based Attack
Hanoi-based Tien Phong Bank (TPBank) released a statement late on Sunday saying that it had interrupted the attempted theft of approximately $1.1 million via fraudulent SWIFT messages. It would appear that the statement was in response to inquiries from Reuters, following clues in BAE System's Cyber Heist Attribution report published late last week.
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