- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 21st, 2016
Cyber-Scammers Steal €50 Million from Austrian Airplane Manufacturer
FACC falls victim to a Business Email Compromise attack
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 16th, 2016
Casino Sues Security Firm for Failing to Contain Malware Infection
Casino chain seeks monetary damages in excess of $100,000
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 16th, 2016
Cryptsy Bitcoin Trader Robbed, Blames Backdoor in the Code of a Wallet
The stolen Bitcoin & Litecoin were worth over $5.7 million
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 11th, 2016
DDoS Attack on Minnesota Court System Takes Website Offline for Ten Days
Nobody claimed attacks, no data breach occurred
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 10th, 2016
FTC Fines Software Maker over False Data Encryption Claims
Software vendor lies about encryption, gets big-time fine
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 5th, 2016
Linode VPS Host Under Two-Week Long DDoS, Now Announces Data Breach
For Linode, the DDoS attacks just took a turn for the worse
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 4th, 2016
Donald Trump's Campaign Website Targeted by DDoS Attack
Same group that took down the BBC is behind the attack
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 3rd, 2016
BTCC Bitcoin Trader Blackmailed with DDoS Attacks
Blackmailer fails after BTCC invests in better servers
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 2nd, 2016
Linode Is Under a Barrage of DDoS Attacks Since Christmas
VPS cloud hosting provider sees 10 days of DDoS attacks
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 1st, 2016
BBC Services Suffer DDoS Attack on New Year's Eve UPDATE
iPlayer database malfunctions in DDoS attack, brings everything down, including main website and a radio app
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- December 29th, 2015
Anonymous Plans to Reveal Documents to Help Release a Man Wrongfully Convicted of Murder
Hacktivism group plans to reveal police corruption
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- December 29th, 2015
UConn Website Hijacked and Used to Spread Fake Flash Player Containing Malware
University of Connecticut loses control of its DNS entries
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- December 24th, 2015
13-Years-Old Software Bug Led to the Early Release of 3,200 US Inmates Each Year
Coding snafu leads to prisoners getting out of jail too soon
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- December 4th, 2015
Hacker Tried to Send 4 Million "Death to the Jews" SMS Messages
Anti-Semite hacker tried to spam UAE mobile clients
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- November 27th, 2015
Judge to DDoSing Teen: Take Up Rugby or Something
17-year-old sentenced to 12 months suspended prison term
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- November 26th, 2015
FBI Identifies Hacker That Stole 1.2 Billion Usernames and Passwords REUTERS
FBI links one of CyberVor's members to an online nickname
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- November 23rd, 2015
Bloggers Put Bounty on DDoS Extortionists
Site owners decide to go after DDoS attackers instead of filling their pockets with crypto-money (Bitcoin)