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British retailers will lose millions of pounds to online fraudsters this Christmas, an anti-cybercrime organisation has warned, as hackers continue to ramp up attacks. Over the past 90 days, ThreatMetrix, which authenticates transactions on behalf of 4,000 customers across the world, has detected 45m attempted attacks against online retailers, a 25pc increase on the previous quarter. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Telegraph

The Kremlin has admitted that Russian television accidentally showed secret plans for a nuclear torpedo system on air. Two Kremlin-controlled channels, NTV and Channel One, showed a military official looking at a confidential document containing drawings and details of a weapons system called Status-6, designed by Rubin, a nuclear submarine construction company based in St Petersburg. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Guardian

A chance finding by a German security researcher has revealed ATMs run by German Bank Sparkasse leaked potentially sensitive information during a software update. Benjamin Kunz-Mejri, chief exec and founder of Germany based security firm Vulnerability Lab, came across the problem when he unsuccessfully attempted to use his card to withdraw funds. The cash machine become unavailable before Kunz-Mejri pressed a “special keyboard combination” that result in a display of a software update process on...

If you’re a fan of Fantasy Football, there’s a big chance you’ve been targeted by hackers. Malwarebytes has discovered that the official Barclays Premier League Fantasy Football website has been hit by criminals intent on luring unsuspecting users to an infected site. An ad for OKzilla, a British yacht company, was being displayed to fantasy managers, automatically redirecting anybody who clicked it to a malware download page. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Gizmodo

CryptoWall 4.0 is back, but a vaccine is available according to Romanian cyber-defence company, Bitdefender. The company announced its development of a vaccine earlier this week, saying “to stop the spread of this threat, Bitdefender anti-malware experts have developed an antidote, a piece of software that allows users to immunise their computers and block file encryption attempts.” The post also mentioned that it had found strains of this new version of CryptoWall in Western Europe and as...

A man-in-the-middle attack has left Vizio TV owners compromised after smart TVs made by the company were found to be broadcasting their viewing habits. This was due to the device not validating the HTTPS certificates of the servers it was connecting to. The TV actually accepted self-signed forged certificates. The sharing of data was in contravention of privacy policies that owners had subscribed to. Researchers from Avast found further footholds that attacks could use to...

An anonymous hacker has leaked documents to The Intercept that detail a massive data breach at Securus, a company that provides phones in US prisons. An estimated 70 million phone call records from the last 2 years were accessed. The data was taken from over 37 states, showing how much data was kept by the company. Much of the data was calls that never should have been accessed. Civil rights campaigners are up in arms...

April 2014 was a big day for cybersecurity as the world reacted to the discovery of Heartbleed, a flaw in the systems behind secure internet communications. At the time no-one had any idea how great its impact was, or how bad it could get. Investigators say this was the largest theft of consumer data from financial institutions. 'Victim 2' - an unnamed financial firm based in Boston, was accessed by Heartbleed. We're now getting reports...

Cheetah Mobile's researchers have come across over 30 tablet brands in total having products being sold on Amazon that come with Trojans pre-installed. The Cloudsota Trojan, the malware discovered on the devices, allows remote control of devices where it is present and bypasses user consent in performing activities - which includes installing more malware and adware, uninstalling antivirus software and plagues devices with adverts on their homepage, even turning wallpapers into adverts. It is alleged...

Matthew Hancock, UK Cabinet Office Minister, warned of the UK government being under "constant and relentless" sophisticated cyberattacks, citing Sony, TalkTalk and the OPM to prove his point. Talking at IA15, the UK government's flagship security conference, he said that the ongoing bombardment of UK systems, although it doesn't make the headlines, is a real and persistent threat. He went on to say that "Last year, 90 percent of large businesses reported an information security breach....