- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 30th, 2016
Transmission BitTorrent Client Website Hacked Again to Spread Mac Malware
Transmission client included the Keydnap backdoor trojan
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 24th, 2016
Thai Bank Shuts Down Half of Its ATMs Following $378,000 Heist
Crooks used malware to rob 21 ATMs across Thailand
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 17th, 2016
Industrial Espionage Hackers Targeted 130 Companies in More than 30 Countries
Crooks deployed the HawkEye spywre for their attacks
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 16th, 2016
VeraCrypt Security Audit Continues Despite Missing Encrypted Emails
Mystery remains as OSTIF and others search for the emails
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 12th, 2016
LinkedIn Files Lawsuit to Uncover Massive Data Scraping Botnet
LinkedIn faced a similar data scraping attack in 2014
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 9th, 2016
"Foreign Hackers" Launch DDoS Attacks on Australia's Census Website
Australia's Census website is still down after DDoS attacks
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 9th, 2016
Bitfinex Bitcoin Trader Elects to Spread Losses from Recent Hack Among All Users
All users will lose 36.067% of their funds
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 2nd, 2016
FBI Agent Pleads Guilty to Being a Chinese Spy, Stealing Surveillance Tech
FBI agent now faces up to 10 years in prison
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 1st, 2016
China Arrests 10 White Hats from WooYoun Ethical Hacking Community
No details made public about the charges behind the arrests
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 22nd, 2016
MIT Faced 35 DDoS Attacks in the First Six Months of 2016
Biggest attack peaked at 295 Gbps, 58.6 Mpps
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 20th, 2016
DDoS Attack Takes Down US Congress Website for Three Days
Library of Congress and Copyright Office also affected
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 18th, 2016
UK Railway Network Suffered Four Cyber-Attacks in the Past Year
Intrusions were labeled as reconnaissance operations
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 18th, 2016
Steemit Social Network Hacked, User Funds Stolen, DDoS Attack Ensued
Company promises to refund affected users
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 14th, 2016
Programming Error in Citigroup Banking Software Goes Undetected for 15 Years
SEC fines Citigroup $7 million for its slip-up
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 12th, 2016
Russians and Malware Involved in $2 Million ATM Heist in Taiwan
ATM transactions suspended in Taiwan for two days
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 30th, 2016
Chinese Gambling Company Was Target of a Nine-Vector 470 Gbps DDoS Attack
The attack also reached 110 million packets per second
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 28th, 2016
Brexit Do-Over Petition Subject to an Automated Bot Attack
Government removes over 77,000 suspect signatures