SpyEye bank Trojan hides its fraud footprint
Posted January 5, 2012 The latest variants of the information-stealing SpyEye Trojan are now specializing in hiding fraudulent transactions from your online banking statements. Should we rethink giving...
View ArticleHackers snatch $6.7m in South African cyber bank robbery
Posted January 20, 2012 A mere three years after a South African bank spent $1.8 million on a new fraud-detection system, hackers managed to swindle $6.7 million out from under that system’s nose....
View ArticleCybercrooks preying on small businesses
Posted July 6, 2012 Small businesses might think they are little enough to escape cybercrooks’ attention, but they’re increasingly wrong. Read the full story on Naked Security.
View ArticleWoman gets 2.5 years in prison for managing ATM-sucking gang of fraudsters
Posted August 28, 2012 Over $9 million was stolen from cash machines in 280 cities around the world in less than 12 hours, using a mixture of a gang of low-level operatives and high-tech hacking. Read...
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SpyEye bank Trojan hides its fraud footprint
This Christmas, banks were visited by the ghost of malware past: an ever nastier version of SpyEye that manages to hide fraudulent transactions from unsuspecting victims. Security vendor Trusteer last...
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Hackers snatch $6.7m in South African cyber bank robbery
A mere three years after a South African bank spent $1.8 million on a new fraud-detection system, hackers managed to swindle $6.7 million out from under that system’s nose. As the South African Times...
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Cybercrooks preying on small businesses
Small businesses might think they are little enough to escape cybercrooks’ attention, but they’re increasingly wrong. Case in point: thieves in May took a mere few hours to vacuum $1.2 million out of...
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Woman gets 2.5 years in prison for managing ATM-sucking gang of fraudsters
A Chicago woman was sentenced last Tuesday to 2.5 years in federal prison for managing a gang of money mules who used bogus accounts, PINs and ATM cards to drain more than $9 million from WorldPay US...
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Five Slovenians arrested for $2.5M email banking fraud
Slovenian police on Thursday raided 12 homes and arrested five Slovenian citizens in connection with sending malware-packed email to small and medium businesses’ accounting departments. The email was...
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Bank robbers pose as IT guys, rig device to slurp £1.3m from Barclays
London’s Metropolitan Police have arrested eight men in connection with a £1.3 million ($2.08 million) bank heist carried out with a remote-control device they had the brass to plug into a Barclays...
View ArticleDatabase of 2.2m suspected terrorists, money launderers leaked online
A database that classifies people, major charities, activists, and mainstream religious institutions as potential terrorists or money launderers was found available to anybody who knew where to look...
View ArticleCobalt/Carbanak bank malware gang's alleged leader arrested
Police have arrested the alleged mastermind behind the Carbanak gang: a group of cybercrooks that’s targeted banks since late 2013, phishing their way into networks, infecting servers and gaining...
View ArticleGoogle Maps scammers put their own phone numbers onto bank listings
Google Maps lets users edit and update listings: crowd-sourcing that’s helped Google to fill in the details of its maps, such as adding new roads or parks: a helpful feature, particularly in areas...
View ArticleDesjardins’ employee from hell spills 2.9m records
A rogue employee tore a 2.9 million-record-sized hole into his (now former!) employer’s hide, according to an advisory posted on Thursday by Canada’s Desjardins Group, the largest federation of credit...
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