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HITB Florian Lukavsky hacks criminals profiting from out-of-control multi-billion dollar CEO wire transfer scams... and they hate him for it. The director of SEC Consult's Singapore office has made a name striking back at so-called "whaling" scammers by sending malicious Word documents that breach their Windows 10 boxes and pass on identity information to police. View full story Original source: The Register

An eye-watering 98.1 million accounts, and their cleartext passwords, have been stolen from Russia's biggest web portals Rambler.ru. The breach occurred way back on 17 February 2012 according to breach repository siteLeakedSource and appears to have gone unreported in intervening years. It represents a significant win for hackers wanting to compromise Russian accounts. View full story Original source: The Register

A new version of the Cerber ransomware was released last week, which is easily to identify based on the .cerber3 extension it adds to all encrypted files. The move comes after crooks released version v1.5 and v2 in quick succession at the start of August. Before releasing Cerber v2, the crooks distributed v1 for more than six months, with very small updates, once in a while. View full story Original source: Softpedia

For those who have been following the news recently, the debacle involving an Israeli company of hackers called NSO Group breaking into iPhones might sound familiar. Now, reports regarding how much the group charges anyone who is interested in hacking smartphones, are circulating, and the amount is staggering. View full story Original source: Econo Times

Entertainment news site Variety was briefly taken over by the infamous hacker group OurMine, the same group responsible for infiltrating several high-profile figures' social media accounts and media outlets in recent months. On Saturday (3 September) the hacking collective managed to break into Variety's content management system at approximately 9 am PT and deface the LA-based publication's site with a post of their own claiming responsibility for the attack. View full story Original source: International Business...

Myrotvorets, a group of Ukrainian nationalist hackers, has leaked the personal details of local journalists they consider pro-Russian for the second time in four months. The last incident occurred in August and targeted journalists who had managed to acquire press accreditation for the Russian-held sections of eastern Ukraine. View full story Original source: The Register

There’s been a startling 200 percent increase in mobile ransomware detection in Q2, according to Quick Heal. This amounts to nearly 50 percent of the ransomware detected in all four quarters of 2015 combined. View full story Original source: Help Net Security

TalkTalk has lost its appeal against the Information Commissioner's Office decision to fine the company £1,000 for a data breach last year. View full story Original source: The Register

Apple in a patch last week blocked a particularly nasty malware package called "Pegasus" from infiltrating iOS devices, and the company is now doing the same for its OS X desktop operating system. View full story Original source: Apple Insider

Ransomware is having quite the year. According to the FBI, crypto-malware authors extorted more than 200 million USD from users in the first three months of 2016. They’re well on their way to raking in over one billion dollars by the end of the year. View full story Original source: State of Security