Incidents  

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • August 30th, 2016
Transmission BitTorrent Client Website Hacked Again to Spread Mac Malware

Transmission BitTorrent Client Website Hacked Again to Spread Mac Malware

Transmission client included the Keydnap backdoor trojan

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • August 24th, 2016
Thai Bank Shuts Down Half of Its ATMs Following $378,000 Heist

Thai Bank Shuts Down Half of Its ATMs Following $378,000 Heist

Crooks used malware to rob 21 ATMs across Thailand

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • August 17th, 2016
Industrial Espionage Hackers Targeted 130 Companies in More than 30 Countries

Industrial Espionage Hackers Targeted 130 Companies in More than 30 Countries

Crooks deployed the HawkEye spywre for their attacks

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • August 16th, 2016
VeraCrypt Security Audit Continues Despite Missing Encrypted Emails

VeraCrypt Security Audit Continues Despite Missing Encrypted Emails

Mystery remains as OSTIF and others search for the emails

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • August 12th, 2016
LinkedIn Files Lawsuit to Uncover Massive Data Scraping Botnet

LinkedIn Files Lawsuit to Uncover Massive Data Scraping Botnet

LinkedIn faced a similar data scraping attack in 2014

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • August 9th, 2016
"Foreign Hackers" Launch DDoS Attacks on Australia's Census Website

"Foreign Hackers" Launch DDoS Attacks on Australia's Census Website

Australia's Census website is still down after DDoS attacks

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • August 9th, 2016
Bitfinex Bitcoin Trader Elects to Spread Losses from Recent Hack Among All Users

Bitfinex Bitcoin Trader Elects to Spread Losses from Recent Hack Among All Users

All users will lose 36.067% of their funds

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • August 2nd, 2016
FBI Agent Pleads Guilty to Being a Chinese Spy, Stealing Surveillance Tech

FBI Agent Pleads Guilty to Being a Chinese Spy, Stealing Surveillance Tech

FBI agent now faces up to 10 years in prison

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • August 1st, 2016
China Arrests 10 White Hats from WooYoun Ethical Hacking Community

China Arrests 10 White Hats from WooYoun Ethical Hacking Community

No details made public about the charges behind the arrests

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • July 22nd, 2016
MIT Faced 35 DDoS Attacks in the First Six Months of 2016

MIT Faced 35 DDoS Attacks in the First Six Months of 2016

Biggest attack peaked at 295 Gbps, 58.6 Mpps

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • July 20th, 2016
DDoS Attack Takes Down US Congress Website for Three Days

DDoS Attack Takes Down US Congress Website for Three Days

Library of Congress and Copyright Office also affected

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • July 18th, 2016
UK Railway Network Suffered Four Cyber-Attacks in the Past Year

UK Railway Network Suffered Four Cyber-Attacks in the Past Year

Intrusions were labeled as reconnaissance operations

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • July 18th, 2016
Steemit Social Network Hacked, User Funds Stolen, DDoS Attack Ensued

Steemit Social Network Hacked, User Funds Stolen, DDoS Attack Ensued

Company promises to refund affected users

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • July 14th, 2016
Programming Error in Citigroup Banking Software Goes Undetected for 15 Years

Programming Error in Citigroup Banking Software Goes Undetected for 15 Years

SEC fines Citigroup $7 million for its slip-up

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • July 12th, 2016
Russians and Malware Involved in $2 Million ATM Heist in Taiwan

Russians and Malware Involved in $2 Million ATM Heist in Taiwan

ATM transactions suspended in Taiwan for two days

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • June 30th, 2016
Chinese Gambling Company Was Target of a Nine-Vector 470 Gbps DDoS Attack

Chinese Gambling Company Was Target of a Nine-Vector 470 Gbps DDoS Attack

The attack also reached 110 million packets per second

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • June 28th, 2016
Brexit Do-Over Petition Subject to an Automated Bot Attack

Brexit Do-Over Petition Subject to an Automated Bot Attack

Government removes over 77,000 suspect signatures

 
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