In the Swiss city of Zurich, a hacker broke into various digital information boards on Tuesday to play porn videos on them. Information boards normally show departure times of trams and buses, now travelers using public transport were confronted with images from the Pornhub website. It is still unknown which smart bastard is behind the […]
A hacker remotely accessed the computer system the operator was monitoring that controls chemical levels in the water as well as other operations. The operator observed the mouse moving around on the screen to access various systems that control the water being treated. The hacker tried to poison the town’s water supply by raising the […]
A criminal organisation set up shell companies in the United States and opened bank accounts for these companies. To gain the trust of the financial institutions, members of the criminal network made transfers to the US-based accounts from different locations in the EU. Based on this trust, the American-based banks issued debit and credit cards […]
Emotet is malware that can install additional malware on systems, steals passwords from browsers and email clients and is very difficult to remove. A computer infection with Emotet malware often comes about through a phishing attack by email. In doing so, the victim is tempted to click on a malicious link, for example in a […]
Details of the Ukraine Cyber Police in collaboration with cryptocurrency exchange Binance show insight into how the group operated. As per reports, they also offered money laundering services of cryptocurrencies through underground forums which are a hotspot for criminals. This led to a source of money from various illegal activities including but not limited to: […]
Transmitted information via satellite broadband connections – something that’s useful in areas where fixed internet connections might be slow or non-existent – could get their traffic sniffed, potentially putting usernames and passwords into the hands of attackers, as well as the ability to track sensitive but often not encrypted information about individuals or corporations. You […]
Research shows that tens of thousands of virtual office workplaces can be abused remotely by hackers directly via the internet. This often still happens most often via a Remote Desktop or Remote Desktop connection from Windows. Many organizations are unaware of this, so it is a matter of patience before an unwanted person or ransomware […]
A pensioner from Voorburg lost his entire pension, after ING seemed to call him to warn him of theft and to secure his money in his account. In the chat trick, the fake ING employee indicated from a spoofed ING existing number that his account was being emptied by people from the Ukraine and had […]
For a long time it was possible to read the previous login details of the password manager LastPass by sending the user to a site with incorrect code. The researcher managed to retrieve the credentials of the previous site that someone had visited. Read more about this: https://www.pcmag.com/news/370778/lastpass-extension-bug-can-leak-passwords-to-malicious-websi
The Spanish police have rounded up a gang of internet crooks who have been active for several years and specialized in setting up online fake shops. These were often indistinguishable from the real thing, behind hundreds of checking accounts. A 23-year-old man is considered Spain’s biggest internet fraudster. His scam earned him around 300,000 euros […]
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