Ecuador Bank Hacked — $12 Million Stolen in 3rd Attack on SWIFT System

Bangladesh is not the only bank that had become victim to the cyber heist. In fact, it appears to be just a part of the widespread cyber attack on global banking and financial sector by hackers who target the backbone of the world financial system, SWIFT.

Yes, the global banking messaging system that thousands of banks and companies around the world use to transfer Billions of dollars in

U.S. developing Technology to Identify and Track Hackers Worldwide

Without adequate analysis and algorithms, mass surveillance is not the answer to fighting terrorism and tracking suspects.

That's what President Obama had learned last year when he signed the USA Freedom Act, which ends the bulk collection of domestic phone data by US Intelligence Agencies.

There is no doubt that US Government is collecting a vast quantity of data from your smartphone to

Ransomware Virus Shuts Down Electric and Water Utility

Ransomware has become an albatross around the neck, targeting businesses, hospitals, and personal computers worldwide and extorting Millions of Dollars.

Typical Ransomware targets victim's computer encrypts files on it, and then demands a ransom -- typically about $500 in Bitcoin -- in exchange for a key that will decrypt the files.

Guess what could be the next target of ransomware malware?

PLATINUM Hackers Hijack Windows Hotpatching to Stay Hidden

In Brief
The Microsoft’s Windows Defender Advanced Threat Hunting team detected that a cyber espionage group of hackers, known as PLATINUM, has found a way to turn the Windows's Hotpatching technique (a way of updating the operating system without requiring a restart) to hide its malware from Antivirus products.

PLATINUM group has been active since 2009 and launching large-scale attacks

DDoS Extortionists made $100,000 without Launching a Single Attack

In Brief
Cyber crooks find a new and ingenious way to make hundreds of thousands of dollars with no effort.

An unknown cyber gang, pretending to be Armada Collective, has made more than $100,000 in less than two months simply by threatening to launch DDoS attack on websites, but never actually launched a single attack.

A group of Cyber Extortionists is sending threatening emails to

Advanced Malware targeting Internet of the Things and Routers

Anything connected to the Internet could be hacked and so is the Internet of Things (IoTs).



The market fragmentation of IoTs or Internet-connected devices is a security nightmare, due to poor security measures implemented by their vendors.



Now, the researchers at security firm ESET have discovered a piece of Malware that is targeting embedded devices such as routers, and other

The 7 Most Wanted Iranian Hackers By the FBI

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has lengthened its Most Wanted List by adding seven Iranian hackers who are accused of attacking a range of US banks and a New York dam.



On Thursday, the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) charged seven Iranian hackers with a slew of computer hacking offences for breaking into computer systems of dozens of US banks, causing Millions of

NSA Data Center Experiencing 300 Million Hacking Attempts Per Day

Utah State computer systems are experiencing a massive cyber attack on up to 300 Million Hacking attempts per day due to National Security Agency’s (NSA) data center in the state.



Yes, 300,000,000 hacking attempts in a day!



According to the statistical survey, it is evident that the computer systems in the US State of Utah began to experience the hacking attack a few years back,

Israeli Power Grid Authority Suffers Massive Cyber Attack

The country which built a Digital Iron Dome, Israel had undergone one of the largest serious cyber attack this year.



This time, the name of Israel is being popped up in the current headlines is for the massive cyber attack which triggered against the Nation's Electrical Power Grid Authority's Network.



"Yesterday we identified one of the largest cyber attacks that we have experienced,"

602 Gbps! This May Have Been the Largest DDoS Attack in History

Cyber attacks are getting evil and worst nightmare for companies day-by-day, and the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is one of the favorite weapon for hackers to temporarily suspend services of a host connected to the Internet.



Until now, nearly every big website had been a victim of this attack, and the most recent one was conducted against the BBC's websites and Republican

Hackers Install Free SSL Certs from Let's Encrypt On Malicious Web Sites

Who else didn't see this coming?



It was so obvious as I stressed earlier that the Let's Encrypt free HTTPS certificates would not just help legitimate website operators to encrypt its users' traffic, but also help criminals to bother innocent users with malware through secure sites.



Let's Encrypt allows anyone to obtain free SSL/TLS (Secure Socket Layer/Transport Layer Security)

Hackers Cause World's First Power Outage with Malware

SCADA system has always been an interesting target for cyber crooks, given the success of Stuxnet malware that was developed by the US and Israeli together to sabotage the Iranian nuclear facilities a few years ago, and "Havex" that previously targeted organizations in the energy sector.



Now once again, hackers have used highly destructive malware and infected, at least, three regional

Anonymous Declares War On Donald Trump — #OpTrump

After targeting the Islamic State (ISIS) group in the wake of Deadly terror attacks in Paris, hacktivist group Anonymous has now turned its attention to controversial US presidential candidate Donald Trump.



The hacktivist group has declared war against Donald Trump following his recent radical speech stating he wanted to ban Muslims from entering the United States.

Someone Just Tried to Take Down Internet's Backbone with 5 Million Queries/Sec

Someone just DDoSed one of the most critical organs of the Internet anatomy – The Internet's DNS Root Servers.



Early last week, a flood of as many as 5 Million queries per second hit many of the Internet's DNS (Domain Name System) Root Servers that act as the authoritative reference for mapping domain names to IP addresses and are a total of 13 in numbers.



The attack, commonly known as

How to Build a Successful Incident Response Plan

The fight to protect your company’s data isn’t for the faint of heart.

As an embattled IT warrior, with more systems, apps, and users to support than ever before, keeping everything up and running is a battle in itself.

When it comes to preventing the worst-case scenario from happening, you need all the help you can get, despite your super-hero status.



According to SANS, there are 6 key

What is Threat Intelligence and How It Helps to Identify Security Threats

Simply put, threat intelligence is knowledge that helps you identify security threats and make informed decisions. Threat intelligence can help you solve the following problems:How do I keep up to date on the overwhelming amount of information on security threats…including bad actors, methods, vulnerabilities, targets, etc.?
How do I get more proactive about future security threats?
How do I

Duuzer Trojan: A New Backdoor Targeting South Korean Organizations

Security researchers at Symantec have uncovered a new Backdoor Trojan that grants hackers remote access and some control over infected machines.



"Duuzer," as dubbed by the researchers, has been targeting organizations in South Korea and elsewhere in an attempt to steal valuable information.



The Trojan is designed to infect both 32-bit and 64-bit computers running Windows 7, Windows

More than 250 iOS Apps Caught Using Private APIs to Collect Users' Private Data

Apple is cleaning up its iTunes App Store again – for the third time in two months – following another flood of iOS apps that secretly collect users’ personal information.
Researchers discovered more than 250 iOS apps that were violating Apple's App Store privacy policy, gathering personal identifiable data from almost one Million users estimated to have downloaded those offending apps.
The

Cisco Takes Down Ransomware Operation Generating $30 Million in Revenue For Hackers

This will blow the minds of every single cyber criminal group out there – Researchers have discovered a group of hackers that is making an estimated $30 Million a year from their online criminal operation.



Yes, $30 MILLLLLLION annually.



Researchers from cyber security firm Cisco announced that they discovered a large ransomware campaign connected to the Angler Exploit Kit, one of the

YiSpecter — First iOS Malware that Attacks both: Non-jailbroken and Jailbroken Devices

Less than a month after Apple suffered one of its biggest malware attacks ever, security researchers have discovered another strain of malware that they claim targets both jailbroken as well as non-jailbroken iOS devices.



Last month, researchers identified more than 4,000 infected apps in Apple's official App Store, which was targeted by a malware attack in which some versions of software