Tag: russia
Russian Hackers Demand Ransom For Medical Records
Sara Hicks Yahoo News Russian hackers are holding a Gold Coast medical centre to ransom after encrypting thousands of patient health records. The hackers are demanding a ransom of $4,000 to decrypt the sensitive information held on a server at the Miami Family Medical Centre. IT security expert Nigel Phair says this latest attack [...]
Five Week Financial Cyber Attack Against Largest US Banks Continues
Chris Dougherty VirtualThreat Contributing Writer For five weeks now some of the largest banks in the United States, including HSBC, Capitol One and BB&T, have been under a sustained cyber attack from unidentified hackers. The attackers are using denial of service (DOS) attacks to cripple access to the banks’ websites. In a phone interview [...]
Russian Hackers Plan U.S. Cyber Bank Heist
Matt Egan Fox News – Business Security professionals have recently learned that a cartel of Russian hackers is planning to launch a separate attack aimed at stealing money from about 30 U.S. financial institutions, an apparent attempt to piggyback and capitalize on the ongoing cyber attacks on U.S. banks. The emergence of Russian hackers [...]
Android Smartphone Hackers Building Malware in Russia
Antone Gonsalves CSO The malware business growing around Google Android — now the leading smartphone operating system — is still in its infancy. Today, many of the apps built to steal money from Android users originate from Russia and China, so criminal gangs there have become cyber-trailblazers. Sophos and Symantec on Wednesday released their [...]
Financial Sector Faces Increased Botnets & DDoS Attacks
The Hacker News DDOS attacks against the financial sector almost tripled during the first quarter of this year, according to DDoS mitigation specialist Prolexic. The firm also reported a 3,000 per cent quarter-on-quarter increase in malicious packet traffic targeted at the financial services sector, compared with the final quarter of 2011. China leads the [...]
