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Customers of Russia’s biggest banks are under attack.Dell SecureWorks has detected an ongoing campaign that is targeting users of several Russian banks and payment service providers. The cyber-criminals behind this affair are believed to be operating a large botnet that spreads the Tinba 2.0 banking trojan and aggregates financial information from its victims. Tinba is […]
Hackers with links to Russia tried to infiltrate Hillary Rodham Clinton’s home e-mail server at least five times — even as other e-mails show her making cavalier jokes about Chinese hackers, according to the latest e-mails released by the State Department. The scammers sent Clinton five infected e-mails disguised as New York speeding tickets on […]
F-Secure report details “The Dukes” malware family and its Russian connections. For the past seven years, a cyberespionage group operating out of Russia—and apparently at the behest of the Russian government—has conducted a series of malware campaigns targeting governments, political think tanks and other organizations. In a report issued today, researchers at F-Secure provided an […]
A man credited with helping to create the infamous Gozi banking malware has pled guilty in a US court. Deniss Calovskis, 30, of Latvia was arrested November 2012 and spent 10 months in the Baltic state’s cooler before being extradited to the USA where he’s been behind bars ever since. Last Friday Calovskis appeared in […]
ussian-speaking hackers have breached 97 websites, mostly dating-related, and stolen login credentials, putting hundreds of thousands of users at risk. Many of the websites are niche dating ones similar to Ashley Madison, according to a list compiled by Hold Security, a Wisconsin-based company that specializes in analyzing data breaches. A few are job-related sites. Batches […]