Monthly Archives: February 2019

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SWIFT says helping bank rebuild network after cyber heist

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Credits: ABC NEWS

International payments network SWIFT said on Saturday it had signed an agreement with Bangladesh’s central bank to help it rebuild its infrastructure after hackers used it to steal USD 81 million in 2016 in the world’s biggest cyber heist.

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By |February 3rd, 2019|Cyber News|

Cyber Crack Squad Formed in Zambia

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Credits: Zambia News

In order to specifically deal with the growing trend in cyberspace crimes, a special branch called the Special Joint Cybercrime Crack Squad (SJCCS) has been formed by the government of Zambia.

Transport and Communications Minister, Engineer Brian Mushimba, notes that […]

By |February 3rd, 2019|Cyber News|

Cyberbit: A military approach to training cyber security teams

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Credits: ZdNet

There’s a war raging between criminal hackers and corporate computer defense systems — and when it comes to wars, military organizations know how to fight them best. The Israeli military is known for the high quality of its cybersecurity training, […]

By |February 3rd, 2019|Cyber News|

Texas lawyer suing Apple over FaceTime bug claims it was used to snoop on a meeting

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Credits: The Register

A Texas lawyer is suing Apple over its FaceTime eavesdropping bug, claiming it allowed someone to overhear a meeting with a client.

Larry Williams II filed the case in Harris County, Houston, following revelations that it was possible for callers to listen […]

By |February 3rd, 2019|Cyber News|

Ethical Hacker Faces 8 Years in Prison for Exposing Vulnerability in Telekom’s System

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Credits: Hungary Today

The Prosecution Service of Hungary has accused a computer specialist of breaking into the Magyar Telekom database by which, according to the office, he has committed a ‘crime of disturbing a public utility’ and endangered society.

The young man […]

By |February 1st, 2019|Cyber News|

Cookieminer: New malware targets Macs to steal from cryptocurrency wallets

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Credits: zdnet

Mac users are being targeted with newly discovered Mac malware that aims to steal the contents of cryptocurrency wallets.

Dubbed CookieMiner by researchers because of its capability for stealing browser cookies associated with cryptocurrency exchanges and wallet service websites visited by the […]

By |February 1st, 2019|Cyber News|

Apple yoinks enterprise certs from Facebook, Google, killing internal apps, to show its power

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Credits: The Register

Analysis After briefly punishing Facebook and Google for violating the rules of its enterprise developer program, Apple has relented. Cupertino is in the process of restoring the digital certificates used by Facebook and Google to sign and distribute in-house iOS […]

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Iran-Linked APT39 group use off-the-shelf tools to steal data

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Credits: securityaffairs

The APT39 cyberespionage group is carrying out a widespread campaign using a broad range of custom and off-the-shelf tools. The group has been active at least since November 2014, its operations are aligned with the ones attributed to the Chafer group and OilRig groups, it brings […]

By |February 1st, 2019|Cyber News|

Ahmedabad cops get average of 300 cyber fraud cases a month

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Credits: TOI

Since demonetization was announced in November 2016, a huge number of people had to adopt digital transactions overnight without awareness of associated traps and pitfalls.

Online fraudsters are making the most of this opportunity and allegedly online frauds have shot up […]

By |February 1st, 2019|Cyber News|

Five arrested in cyber crime raids in Birmingham and Abingdon

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Credits: BBC

The Metropolitan Police detained them during raids at three addresses in Birmingham and one in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, on Wednesday.

The suspects are aged between 29 and 53.

They were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud businesses and organisations, and money laundering.

The […]

By |February 1st, 2019|Cyber News|