As we have seen in previously published articles regarding ransomware, such as TorrentLocker targeting UK with Roya Mail phishing and ransomware in a country near you, these threats are appearing more frequently and in different regions. Starting a few days ago, we began receiving multiple reports of malware-spreading campaigns in various countries mostly in Latin … More CTB-Locker: Multilingual Malware Demands Ransom
The Swiss state owned Banque Cantonale de Geneve has confirmed that hackers have released confidential customer correspondences after the bank refused to pay the ransom demanded by the attackers, reports Tech Week Europe. The hack, which was revealed on the Twitter account of the hacking person(s) involved involved the theft of over 30,000 emails between the … More Swiss bank data released by hackers
Guess who hasn’t been using two factor authentication to protect its social media accounts? Twitter and YouTube accounts belonging to Central Command – the group responsible for United States’ military operations in the Middle East – were hijacked yesterday by hackers claiming to back Islamic State. In a series of messages posted on the @CENTCOM … More US military’s Twitter account hacked
19,000 Bitcoin – valued at around $275 each, so $5 million together – have been stolen from a majour European Bitcoin exchange, reports RT. Bitstamp, a four year old company based in the UK and Slovenia is described by the Financial Times as “the world’s third busiest Bitcoin exchange”. It immediately took action, halting withdrawals … More Bitstamp hacked for $5 million in Bitcoin
Facebook is to face a class action lawsuit over ‘reading’ its user’s messages, a U.S. judge has ruled. CNBC reports that the social network is accused of violating user privacy by scanning messages for URL links – which then counted towards the number of times a link has been ‘shared’ by the site. Facebook also … More Be careful what you post! Facebook faces court for ‘reading user messages’
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