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In a shocking news reported by Chinese media, the security researchers have reveled that there are more than a million smartphones in China have been infected with a deadly Trojan horse malware. The experts have referred infection of so many devices as a botnet, which has the ability to be controlled by a third party. It can […]
One of the biggest cyber attacks in Europe has been identified by the researchers. All this started in 2007 according to the researchers and attacked many leading infrastructural websites of the country which included: embassies, oil and gas institutes and nuclear station. The way of attack was the same i.e. by sending malware in the […]
Bahrain’s cyber police have laid a cyber crime crack down over the sexual predators. There have been a lot of uprisings in the world of cyber crimes from the sexual predators, due to them there is lot of social abuse going on these days. The criminals have been blackmailing young women over the sharing of […]
The EU’s cyber security agency ENISA has published its Cyber Threat Landscape analysis of 2012 which puts drive-by-exploits as the top web threat.
As part of an EU drive to combat the growth of cybercrime across member states a new European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) based at Europol headquarters in The Hague opens Friday 11th January.
In a story that could be lifted direct from a Hollywood script, a Japanese hacker placed a memory card on the collar of a stray cat found wandering on an island near Tokyo.
A new cyber crime unit has been launched in EU with the name of EC3, the unit has been established at Hague, and the main purpose behind the formation of this particular unit is to get hold of the cyber criminals within EU. Rise of cyber crimes have become one of the major concerns for an economy […]
The group of unknown hackers have hacked into the Japan’s Agriculture Ministry server and left with over 3,000 classified documents. The compromise documents are of high value, specially the documents related to Trans-Pacific Partnership multilateral trade pact. Japan’s national site Yomiuri, reports that a malicious malware Htran was found in the Agriculture Ministry’s server. Malware developed by Chinese hackers of the Honker Union of China group. […]
This year is probably one of the best years for the cyber criminals. The criminals went through the defenses of many renowned sites and systems this year. Though, in the beginning government do not seek this as one of the concerned issue but with the time as more and more cases belonging to cyber crimes […]
Online scamming has these days have become more then simple crimes these days. Criminals see them as a business more than a crime committed by them. 2012 saw a tremendous increase in the scams carried by the criminals, not only the scams got increased but they also got sophisticated too. Ordinary people faced huge losses […]
A 16 years old hacker has been arrested for allegedly hacking into different computers across the Spanish city of Alicante, stealing users personal information such as bank account details, passwords of their social media accounts, emails, addresses and other confidential data. According to the people close to the case said the 16 year old was blackmailing the victims for money in exchange […]
As cyber crimes is getting sophisticated with each passing day, the experts now have now predicted a new dimension in the world of cyber crimes. This time around they have predicted the most worst form of criminal act i.e. A murder through the internet. However, they don’t see happening soon but in a year or so it may be […]
India is one of the most affected countries from the hands of cyber crimes this and statistics prove this too. This year an increase of about 57 percent is recorded in the amount of websites being hacked from all over India in comparison to the year 2009 which recorded only over 9000 website’s hackings. This year only October such […]
Today, a Swedish card payment processor was sentenced for a 48 month jail for campaigning a $71 million fraud-lent activity through infecting computers through scare-ware and selling rogue anti-virus software. Mikael Patrick Sallnert, 37 year old citizen from Sweden was charged by the U.S. code of law. Not only the verdict was sentenced jail but also was ordered […]
New malware that attacks point-of-sale (POS) systems had been detected in 40 countries in recent months. The malware, dubbed “Dexter” is able to skim credit card information from compromised POS systems.
Detectives from the UK Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) investigating cyber criminals who use “ransomware” have arrested three people. Ransomware is a form of malicious software or malware that is served up by infected websites (which themselves may be legitimate). Victims inadvertently download the software which infects their computer. The scam takes different forms in
In America, transit authorities have installed microphone-enabled surveillance systems on public buses in various cities including San Francisco, Eugene, Traverse City, Columbus, Hartford, and Athens. That means, now they can listen to every word you say! To add a little more shock, some of these systems have a technology for distinguishing conversations from the background […]
With each passing day, cyber crimes are getting more and more sophisticated and difficult to deal with. Net surfers around the world are in serious confusion at the moment, especially, after the release of this new mysterious cyber crime that we will tell you about in this article. The crime came into the light after […]
Africa has faced a number of cyber crimes this years. Zimbabwe Uganda and South Africa has faced massive losses this year. This is proven by a stat which list all about the cyber crimes in Africa : “In the first quarter of this year, 8,903 cyber security incidents were reported in Africa and of those, […]
Cyber crime during the year 2012 has reached to it’s heights and UAE is one of the most affected countries worldwide due to this uprise. This aspect was stated in a recent report launched by Symantec and Norton officials. According to them, UAE has been a center of a large number of spams and firms […]
A country which is probably the 7th best amongst world’s top defense countries doesn’t have any legalized cyber crime laws in the country can you image that ? Probably not. Where, nearly all the countries in the world are struggling hard to combat cyber crimes, even, developing countries such Nigeria is also taking strict measures […]