- Hacking News
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 8th, 2016
Anonymous Shifts Focus from Banks to Stock Exchanges As OpIcarus Continues
Group engages in phase three of OpIcarus
- Security Blog
- By Eduard Kovacs
- January 6th, 2014
FireEye’s Market Value Increases Considerably Following Mandiant Acquisition Reuters
On Friday, the company’s shares were at $55.33 / €40.67 per share on the NASDAQ
- Security
- By Eduard Kovacs
- August 23rd, 2013
Nasdaq Outage Could Be the Work of Hackers, Experts Say
DDOS attack, security breach, technical glitch, or human error?
- Security
- By Eduard Kovacs
- August 22nd, 2013
Man Accused of Being Penny Stock Fraud Kingpin Arrested in Thailand
Sandy Winick and his co-conspirator tricked investors from around 35 countries
- Security
- By Eduard Kovacs
- July 16th, 2013
IOSCO Publishes Study on Cybercrime, Systemic Risk and Global Securities Markets
Hackers haven't targeted trading platforms, but the risks should not be underestimated
- Security Blog
- By Eduard Kovacs
- November 20th, 2012
Penny Stocks Spam Influences Trading Volume Once Again, Experts Find
Avira warns users about emails in which they're asked to invest with a certain firm
- Security Blog
- By Eduard Kovacs
- November 10th, 2012
Businessman Sentenced to Prison for Cyberattacks on Hong Kong Stock Exchange
The DDOS attacks forced HKEx to suspend trading for some stocks
- Incidents
- By Eduard Kovacs
- August 7th, 2012
Oil Markets Affected by Fake Tweet About the Death of Syria’s President
Journalist Tommaso De Benedetti once again demonstrates his theory
- Security Blog
- By Eduard Kovacs
- April 26th, 2012
L0NGwave99 Hackers Target NASDAQ, Major Stock Exchange Sites
DDOS attacks are planned as part of Operation Digital Tornado
- Security
- By Eduard Kovacs
- April 24th, 2012
75,000 Individuals Duped in “Stock Picking Robot” Scheme
SEC has filed a complaint against twin brothers from the UK for running the plot
- Security
- By Eduard Kovacs
- April 19th, 2012
Russian Brokerage Account Hacker Charged by FBI (Updated)
The man is suspected of running a $1 million (750,000 EUR) trades scheme
- Security
- By Eduard Kovacs
- April 4th, 2012
Royal Bank of Canada Accused by US Regulator of Wash Sale Scheme
The bank is accused of running a scheme that brought tax benefits for several years
- Incidents
- By Eduard Kovacs
- March 23rd, 2012
Traders Drop Price of Silver by Exploiting NASDAQ Vulnerability
In the stock trading business even a few milliseconds are worth gold
- Security
- By Eduard Kovacs
- February 23rd, 2012
Crooks May Use GPS Spoofers for Financial Gain
On stock markets even a few milliseconds can be precious
- Google News
- By Lucian Parfeni
- February 21st, 2012
Google Adds Real-Time Data from the London Stock Exchange, Borsa Italiana
Boosting the relevancy of share price data in Google Finance
- Hacking News
- By Eduard Kovacs
- February 15th, 2012
Anonymous Takes Down NASDAQ Site with DDOS Attack
The names of future targets were revealed by the attackers
- Hacking News
- By Eduard Kovacs
- January 30th, 2012
Latvian Stock Fraudster Charged by US SEC
Four firms are accused of helping the man perform illegal trades