Criminals exclusively target bank staff credentials with RAT-laced Microsoft Publisher email attachments
Cybercriminal target bank employees rather than customers.
Cybercriminal target bank employees rather than customers.
It took years of discussion and several revisions, but experts believe the long-awaited passage of Australia’s breach notification legislation will kick off a new era of transparency that will rapidly improve understanding of the country’s real cybersecurity threat climate.
David Braue | 15 Feb | Read more
Targeted attacks have made DDoS attacks part of everyday life – but businesses aren’t ready
David Braue | 25 Jan | Read more
Australia’s information-security industry continues to change rapidly as winners – and losers – stake their claims on a series of partnerships and investments with local implications.
David Braue | 03 Nov | Read more
The New York Times’ and BBC’s websites are among a handful of the world’s most popular news sites that hackers have abused to spread malware.
Locky, a new family of ransomware that emerged in the last few weeks, has quickly made a mark for itself.
Jeremy Kirk | 10 Mar | Read more
New figures suggested that scams are by far the most common type of cybercrime affecting Australians, while CIOs and CISOs faced a raft of other concerns as well – for example, new findings that 23 percent of documents shared via unauthorised 'shadow-IT' cloud apps are being made available to the public. Little wonder that, despite a surge in salaries for qualified candidates, cybersecurity professionals are less confident in their security infrastructure this year than last.
David Braue | 25 Jan | Read more
US casino Affinity Gaming has sued security firm TrustWave, accusing it of lying when telling the casino it had “contained” a data breach.
LAS VEGAS - Earlier this year, a disgruntled reseller leaked the source code for version 2.0 of the RIG exploit kit.
Steve Ragan | 04 Aug | Read more
A revised patch has been released for a flaw in the distribution platform for Ruby applications, RubyGems, which could be used to deliver malware to someone trying to download a program.
Jeremy Kirk | 23 Jun | Read more
The data breach landscape could look very different in the future with the increased adoption of chip-enabled payment cards in North America -- but for now point-of-sale systems account for the majority of breaches there, compared to a tiny minority in other regions of the world.
Lucian Constantin | 10 Jun | Read more
Cybercriminals are targeting employees who browse the Web or check their email from point-of-sale (PoS) computers, a risky but unfortunately common practice.
Lucian Constantin | 26 May | Read more
At the end of June, merchants that accept payment cards have five new security requirements to comply with -- and significant fines and other costs if they don't.
Maria Korolov | 16 May | Read more
A botnet designed for Web advertising fraud was also used to nudge up the number of views of some pro-Russian videos on the website DailyMotion, according to security vendor Trustwave.
Jeremy Kirk | 01 May | Read more
Malware typically used artificially inflate advertising revenues is now being used to promote Russian propaganda on the Dailymotion video site, according to a report released today by Trustwave.
Maria Korolov | 30 Apr | Read more