Hacking News

Ransomware distributors expecting an easy payday are having their illicit earnings stolen before they’re even received by other cyber criminals who are hijacking the ransom payments and redirecting them into their own bitcoin wallets. But not only are the attacks giving criminals a taste of their own medicine in becoming victims of cyber theft, it’s […]

Infrastructure firms could face fines of up to £17m if they do not have adequate cybersecurity measures in place, the UK government has announced today. The plans follow proposals earlier this year from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport intended to comply with the EU Network and Information Systems (NIS) Directive, which comes

ATM manufacturers Diebold Nixdorf and NCR have warned that jackpotting attacks have come to the United States. Black box attacks, otherwise known as jackpotting, first appeared in Western Europe in 2015 and in Mexico years earlier. The logic-based technique targets ATM cash reserves are targeted and forces compromised machines to uncontrollably dispense cash. Read more

Experty’s keenly-awaited ICO has dissolved into disarray after a hacker targeted investors and stole roughly $150,000 in Ethereum (ETH) ahead of the event. Experty’s Initial Coin Offering (ICO), also known as a token sale, is designed to raise funds for a “Skype-like voice and video application” which could also take secure payments through the Blockchain.

Word of the offensive ads started no later than Tuesday, as people took to social media sites to criticize their antivirus programs were catching cryptocurrency mining code when they visited YouTube. Read more

Security researchers from Sucuri have found that about 2,000 WordPress CMS websites are infected with a malicious script (keylogger) that’s running on the WordPress backend login page and a web browser cryptocurrency miner called CoinHive on their frontends. Read more

These fake ad companies each had individual websites and even LinkedIn portraits for their fake CEOs. Their sole purpose was to interface with larger broadcasting platforms, looking as legitimate businesses. Read more

According to Voting Village organizers, they have been getting a bad time getting their palms on machines for white-hat hackers to test at the next Defcon situation in Las Vegas (held in August). That’s because polling machine makers are jumbling to get the machines off eBay and keep them away from the hands of the

University College of London conducted a study in which they surveyed fourteen year olds to know what they did in their free time. This study, named The Millennium Cohort Study, had a total of 11,000 respondents. The findings were quite surprising, as 5% of respondents claimed to have hacked or attempted to hack a computer

Internet of Things product manufacturers must get their act together and secure their devices or they risk creating new ways for wrongdoers to commit crimes, a senior police officer has warned. “All new technologies, all changes in the way that society is ordered — particularly if it is technology — always has a crime harvest.