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Hacking Team has largely stayed under the radar after a gigantic leakexposed its spyware-selling ways, but the company might be on the rebound. Security researchers have noticed that recent Mac malware installs a version of Hacking Team's Remote Code Systems tool from around October, or three months after the outfit was publicly torn apart. There is a chance that a third-party group simply obtained and reworked some of the leaked source code, but clues suggest that this wasn't the work of amateurs. View...

The U.S. federal government designed Einstein, the Department of Homeland Security's intrusion detection and prevention system, to use signatures - or patterns of malicious data - to identify cyber incursions. However, Einstein cannot detect intrusions employing methods such as analyzing anomalous behaviours in an IT system. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: BankInfoSecurity

Apple cannot be compelled to bypass the lock screen on an iPhone seized by the government in a New York drug case, according an order issued today by magistrate Judge James Orenstein. It’s a significant rejection of the government's interpretation of the All Writs Act, which prosecutors have advanced in multiple jurisdictions across the country—most prominently, in connection with a locked iPhone 5c that once belonged to one of the San Bernardino shooters. Today's order...

The ATMZombie Trojan is believed to have stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars from victims using banks located in Israel in a fresh campaign. ATMZombie, identified in November 2015 by researchers from Kaspersky Lab, has been detected in a cyberattack campaign focused on stealing funds from Israel bank accounts. According to the cyberforensics firm, the malware is not only stealthy and sophisticated but is able to launch Man-In-The-Middle (MITM) attacks to intercept traffic and steal...

Snapchat is famous for its disappearing messages, but unfortunately not everything in this world is ephemeral when you need it to be. The LA-based company disclosed today that a number of its current and former employees had their identifies compromised by a cyber attack this month. “Last Friday, Snapchat’s payroll department was targeted by an isolated email phishing scam in which a scammer impersonated our Chief Executive Officer and asked for employee payroll information,” Snapchat explained in a blog post. “Unfortunately,...

A ransomware cyberattack targeted computers at the Los Angeles Department of Health Services, it was reported Friday. Department spokesman Michael Wilson told the Los Angeles Times that remnants of ransomware were found on five computers on Wednesday, but operations were unaffected. The attack was reported to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, according to The Times. The report comes weeks after Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center paid $17,000 in untraceable virtual currency known as Bitcoin...

The online Islamic extremists, who call themselves the Caliphate Cyber Army, hijacked the website of Solar UK on January 31. The hack on the tiny company, which has only 11 staff members, redirected customers to a different page with chilling jihadi threats during the attack. It warned: "Fear us. We are the Islamic Cyber Army. We have responded to the call of war and have risen across the globe, from within their own back yard...

Officials at the University of California Berkeley said on Friday that they were alerting 80,000 people, including current and former students, faculty and vendors of a cyber-attack on a system that stores social security and bank account numbers. The news comes just more than a week after a Southern California hospital paid hackers $17,000 in the digital currency Bitcoin to regain control of their computer systems after a so-called "ransomware" attack. The San Francisco Bay...

Google has launched a free service to protect news websites against DDoS attacks. Project Shield will also be offered to human rights and election monitoring websites as a way of fending off increasingly commonplace site-swamping DDoS assaults. Google is offering to "reverse proxy" qualifying websites' traffic through Google's cloud platform. Publishers can opt in to route all their traffic through Google by making changes in their DNS settings. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register  

A December power outage in Ukraine affecting 225,000 customers was the result of a cyber attack, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Thursday, marking the first time the U.S. government officially recognized the blackout as caused by a malicious hack. Security experts had already widely concluded that the downing of utilities in western Ukraine on December 23 was due to an attack, which is believed to be the first known successful cyber intrusion to...