As Bitcoin’s price continues to soar beyond $4,000 USD per, cyber criminals are responding in kind by using techniques long reserved for adware, click-fraud and spying to now drop cryptocurrency miners onto compromised computers. The latest incident comes from a rash of drive-by downloads that are being used to install coin-mining malware called Zminer, according to […]

A new spam campaign has hit Facebook Messenger through the past few days. Users have received a video link that redirects them to a fake malicious website, attracting them to install malicious software. The campaign has been discovered by security researchers from Kaspersky Lab and Avira, but how the malware spreads is still unknown. It

Google said it is adding a firewall to its Google Cloud Platform App Engine so developers can allow or deny requests by IP addresses and location. The firewall is designed to enable developers to test production apps with better security. The beta of the Google App Engine firewall allows developers and administrators to set rules, specify IP

The FBI has filed charges against a Chinese malware broker named Yu Pingan, alleging that he provided hackers with malware, including the Sakula trojan, to breach multiple computer networks belonging to companies in the US. Yu was arrested on August 21 at Los Angeles International Airport, the Justice Department confirmed to ZDNet. The FBI’s criminal complaint alleges

The Victorian government has launched a new five-year cybersecurity strategy to build resiliency against cyber threats and ensure government information, services, and infrastructure are protected and personnel are ready should the situation arise. Under the Cyber Security Strategy released on Friday, the state government is aiming to protect sensitive citizen and other data against loss, malicious alteration,

A ransomware development kit that doesn’t require any coding skills is being sold on underground forums. All a wannabe cyber criminal needs to build their own file-locking malware is an Android phone. Downloadable from hacking discussion boards for free, the Trojan Development Kit (TDK) apps comes with an easy to use interface that allows criminals

Google has detailed how its custom Titan security chip will prevent cyberattacks that use firmware-based attacks. As Google explained when it unveiled its tiny Titan chip, it would use it to give each server in its cloud its own identity. Now, it’s provided a more detailed rundown of what that means and how Titan will serve

Today, August 24th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes secret documents from the ExpressLane project of the CIA. These documents show one of the cyber operations the CIA conducts against liaison services — which includes among many others the National Security Agency (NSA), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The OTS (Office of

A newly discovered form of ransomware is targeting organisations with tailored phishing emails, demanding a huge ransom from unfortunate victims. The ransomware has been dubbed ‘Defray’ by researchers at Proofpoint who uncovered it. The name is based on that of the command-and-control server host-name in the first observed attack — ‘defrayable-listings’. It’s an appropriate name for

AccuWeather is still sending precise geolocation data to a third-party advertiser, ZDNet can confirm, despite updating its app earlier this week to remove a feature that collected user’s location data without their permission. In case you missed it, AccuWeather was until this week sending the near-precise location of its iPhone app users to Reveal Mobile, a data monetization