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Belgian bank Elantis blackmailed by hackers over unencrypted customer data
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2012-05-04 08:22
Hackers claimed to have breached the systems of the Belgian credit provider Elantis and threatened to publish confidential customer information if the bank does not pay €150,000 (£122,000) before Friday, May 4, they said in a statement posted to Pastebin. Elantis confirmed the data breach on Thursday, but the bank said it will not give in to extortion threats.
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Hacking Android Devices: It's Not Just Apps You Need to Worry About
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2012-05-04 06:15
It’s not just malicious apps you need to be wary of infecting your smartphone. Now, navigating to poisoned websites are a threat, too.
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Reveton Citadel: Ransom malware merged with bank trojan
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2012-05-02 09:35
Adding injury to insult, fraudsters have merged the phenomenon of ransom Trojans with banking malware, producing a hybrid that demands money before attempting to steal user logins.
Noticed by several security firms since the turn of the year, the web drive-by Reveton Trojan tries to coax victims into handing over payments of up to $100 with the warning that they have been found accessing violent and child porn content by the US Department of Justice.
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Police find 15,400 Aussie credit cards on hacker forums
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2012-04-30 05:51
More than 15,000 Australian credit cards worth an estimated $3.75 million in total were salvaged from underground hacker forums in a global police sting.
The cards were held across 36 carding websites that used automated vending carts to sell the accounts in large batches.
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How a Cell Phone Busted a Hacker
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2012-04-30 05:49
The recent arrest of Higinio O. Ochoa III, of Galveston, Texas -- allegedly a member of the Anonymous-linked CabinCr3w --generated considerable amusement (and some unbearably bad puns) when it was reported that the FBI tracked him down using photos he had posted of his girlfriend's breasts (covered somewhat by a bikini top).
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