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President-elect Donald Trump has dismissed a report by the CIA claiming that there is proof that Russian government hackers smoothed his route to the White House. On Friday, representatives from the CIA told US Congress that it had evidence that the Russians had hacked the servers of both the Democrats and Republicans, but had only released data from the former in order to help Trump win the election. Senators on both sides of the political...

Cyber attacks on the global banking system Swift are still finding success ten months after $81m (£63.91m; €76.16m) was stolen from Bangladesh Bank, the country's central bank. The network, which handles trillions of dollars in transfers daily, has warned other central banks across the world of the escalating threat to their systems. "The threat is very persistent, adaptive and sophisticated – and it is here to stay," Swift officials said, in a letter seen by Reuters. A number...

Ransomware scum are suggesting that victims infect their friends instead of paying for decryption keys. Thre ransomware variant "Popcorn Time", unrelated to the popular Bittorrent client by the same name, first tells users they have a week in which to pay one one bitcoin (US$770) in order to have their files decrypted. The menace, spotted by the MalwareHunter group, also offers victims the chance to infect two other users to avoid payment. View full story...

Technical support scammers have new bait with the discovery that Microsoft's Edge browser can be abused to display native and legitimate-looking warning messages. The flaws exist in Microsoft's Edge protocols ms-appx: and ms-appx-web: which the browser uses to present warning messages when phishing or malware delivery sites are located. When Edge detects suspected Malicious sites it colours them red with a feature called "SmartScreen." View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register

More than a year after a drowned Syrian toddler washed up on a beach in Turkey, the tiny refugee’s body, captured in a photograph that shocked the world, reappeared on computer screens across Saudi Arabia -- this time as a prelude to a cyber attack. The strike last month disabled thousands of computers across multiple government ministries in Saudi Arabia, a rare use of offensive cyberweapons aimed at destroying computers and erasing data. The attackers,...

Tesco Bank left its users vulnerable to hackers by issuing cards with sequential numbers, according to The Financial Times. Comments, from rival lenders, come after the bank suffered a damaging cyberattack that saw $2.5 million stolen from around 9,000 customers. Issuing cards with sequential numbers is a risk that most banks avoid taking, as it increases the chances that a hacker will be able to quickly use a software tool access the accounts. And decreases...

US President Barack Obama has ordered intelligence agencies to review cyber-attacks and foreign intervention into the 2016 election and deliver a report before he leaves office on January 20, the White House said on Friday. In October, the US government formally accused Russia of a campaign of cyber-attacks against Democratic Party organizations ahead of the November 8 presidential election, and Obama has said he warned Russian President Vladimir Putin about consequences for the attacks. View...

The White House said on Thursday that it raised concerns about China’s new cyber security law during a meeting with a Chinese official after the latest round of talks between the two countries on cyber crime. U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice met with Chinese State Councilor Guo Shengkun to discuss the importance “of fully adhering” to an anti-hacking accord signed last year between the China and the United States, National Security Council spokesman Ned...

A new malware-laden phishing campaign, dubbed August, has been detected targeting customer service and managerial staff at retailers, according to a new report from Proofpoint. The clever ploy spreads through an email arriving in the inboxes of targeted individuals with subject lines referring to supposed purchases via the company's website. Recipients are specifically selected who are appropriate reps to deal with customer issues. The message further dupes recipients by saying more detailed information is contained in the...

After hackers infiltrated the German Parliament’s computer network in May 2015, it took nearly a year before the country’s intelligence agency concluded that the attack was most likely the work of their Russian counterparts. Last week, when 900,000 Germans lost access to internet and telephone services, it took a matter of hours before politicians began pointing fingers at Moscow. Berlin is now concerned that Germany will become the next focus of Moscow’s campaign to destabilize Western democracies...