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One of the biggest lottery scams in the history of the US is coming to a close as the mastermind behind the operation has pleaded guilty in an Iowa court, at the end of last month. Eddie Tipton, 54, admitted to creating malware in the form of a DLL file, which he loaded on the secure computers of the Multi-State Lottery Association (MSLA), a company that runs lotteries in 33 states, but also in the...

Darknet hoster Deep Hosting has claimed to have suffered a major security breach over the weekend which led to some of its customers’ data being compromised. The hacker registered a shared account with the platform then used it to upload two shells to its servers, one in PHP and one written in Perl. The former was able to execute. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Infosecurity Magazine

Swiss users are once again hit with emails delivering banking malware, for both Windows and macOS systems. Trend Micro researchers believe the campaign to have been mounted by the threat actors behind Operation Emmental, who have been targeting users based in Switzerland for at least four years, as well as occasionally users based in several other “rich” countries like Sweden, the UK and Japan. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: HelpNetSecurity

Windows 10 users will finally be allowed to reset their account passwords from the lock screen, with Microsoft currently testing a feature that would enable password recovery with help from digital assistant Cortana. Available in the latest preview build of Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, the new password recovery option is displayed alongside the sign-in options link. As MSPU notes, Microsoft has designed the whole process to be very intuitive, once users click on the option that...

Personal details of some 120 Million customers have been allegedly exposed on the Internet in probably the biggest breach of personal data ever in India. Last night, an independent website named Magicapk.com went online, offering Reliance Jio customers to search for their identification data (Know Your Customer or KYC) just by typing in their Jio number. Reliance set up the Jio 4G network across the length and breadth of India in September last year and gained...

Donald Trump appeared on Sunday to back away from a proposed cyber security unit that he had discussed forming with Russia's president Vladimir Putin. The president had described a new era of co-operation with Russia as he returned from Europe on Sunday, outlining plans for a joint cyber-security unit to protect against election hacking. In his first public comments on his meeting mr Putin at last week’s G20 summit in Hamburg, Mr Trump said he “strongly pressed” the...

A US payment kiosk vendor has been stung by malware scum. Avanti Markets helps employers monetise the lunch-room and get rid of counter-service, going beyond a simple vending machine to cover the whole sandwiches-fruit-drinks-junk-food with one payment system. Last week, as first spotted by Brian Krebs, the company posted this breach notice. The outfit explains it's telling people their personal information, payment card data, and maybe biometric data, is at risk. The biometrics in question seem...

FACEBOOK and WhatsApp users have been warned about a dangerous piece of malware that can steal sensitive information from your favourite apps. The SpyDealer malware has existed for almost TWO years and is capable of stealing information from 40 apps including Facebook, WhatsApp and Skype. The trojan is capable of grabbing vast amounts of sensitive information from users, such as phone numbers, messages, contacts and call history. It is even capable of finding out the location of...

Some of the world’s biggest companies are counting the cost of lost business following last week’s “NotPetya” ransomware cyber-attack, with Nurofen maker Reckitt Benckiser taking an estimated £100m hit in revenue. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Guardian

Since May, hackers have been penetrating the computer networks of companies that operate nuclear power stations and other energy facilities, as well as manufacturing plants in the United States and other countries. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: NY Times