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A previously undocumented banking Trojan is targeting financial institutions across the globe and is being used by cybercriminals to spy on networks of compromised organisations and stealthily defraud them of funds. The Odinaff trojan has been active since January this year, carrying out attacks against organisations operating in the banking, securities, trading, and payroll sectors, as well as those which provide support services to these industries. According to cybersecurity researchers at Symantec, the Trojan contains...

Organizations ‒ both SMBs and large enterprises ‒ lack general awareness of the requirements of the new regulation, how to prepare for it, and the impact of non-compliance on data security and business outcomes, according to Dell. Designed to strengthen protection of personal data for all EU citizens, the new regulation goes into effect in May 2018 and affects companies of all sizes, in all regions, and in all industries. Those not fully compliant when...

An unsecured database has allowed at least one hacker to steal data from the servers of Modern Business Solutions (MBS), a company that provides data storage and database hosting solutions. The company has yet to provide an official statement to the press surrounding the incident, but they have secured the vulnerable database against external access. Responsible for the data breach is a hacker that goes on Twitter as 0x2Taylor. The hacker published the stolen data on his...

An alarming proportion of cops’ websites lack any form of automatic secure connection, meaning potentially sensitive data is communicated in plain unencrypted text - according to research. Findings from non-profit body the Centre for Public Safety revealed that almost one-quarter of police sites lack an automatic secure connection, in a review of 71 websites. Of these, more than 70 per cent (12 agencies) invited users to submit personal data - and in some cases information specifically...

France’s TV5Monde came “within hours” of being destroyed by hackers, according to the station’s boss. TV5Monde was taken off air for hours in April 2015. The interruption might have lasted longer but for the intervention of a techie who pulled the plug on a compromised system that was spreading malware, Yves Bigot, the director-general of TV5Monde told the BBC. All 12 of TV5Monde’s channels went off air at 20:40 on Wednesday, 8 April 2015. The first of...

The FastPOS malware that infects point of sale terminals has been updated in time for the Christmas shopping season, becoming harder to detect. That's according to a blog posts from Trend Micro which discovered a new variant of the malware that has undergone some significant upgrades. FastPOS malware is known for its speed, and as the Trend Micro blog explained, up until now the malware stole data as fast as possible, taking as much as it...

In an attempt to curb the spread of leaked emails from a high-ranking government official, the Turkish government reportedly blocked access to a slew of well-known technology and cloud services in the country, including Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, and Google Drive. According to Turkey Blocks, a web monitoring organisation that reported the outages, the nationwide censorship attempt was launched on 8 October. It followed the release of 17GB-worth of leaked emails allegedly from Berat Albayrak, minister of energy...

Whistleblowing outfit WikiLeaks has delivered on its promise to release more emails reportedly hacked from the personal email account of John Podesta, the chairman of the presidential election campaign of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. The second release, which consists of 2,086 emails in total, comes less than a week after the initial release of emails, which was made up of 2,060 messages and 170 attachments. WikiLeaks claimed the first publication was only one per cent of the total collection. View full...

A powerful cyber-attack came close to destroying a French TV network, its director-general has told the BBC. TV5Monde was taken off air in April 2015. A group calling itself the Cyber Caliphate, linked to so-called Islamic State, first claimed responsibility. But an investigation now suggests the attack was in fact carried out by a group of Russian hackers. The attack used highly targeted malicious software to destroy the TV network's systems. View full story ORIGINAL...

The NHS is under increasing attack from cyber blackmailers attempting to extort ransoms from dozens of hospitals using internet viruses which encrypt data. Health service trusts serving millions of patients have been hit by the “ransomware” attacks in the past 12 months, prompting concern that antiquated IT systems are leaving NHS data such as patient records vulnerable to exploitation by criminals. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: inews