No less than $75,000 in cryptocurrency (Bitcoin or Ether), or $100,000 in iTunes gift cards — this is the exorbitant ransom that cybercriminals have demanded from Apple. The group,. Calling themselves the Turkish Crime Family, claims to have stolen access to 300 million iCloud accounts, and have threatened to wipe them on April 7 (tomorrow) […]
Ransomware’s popularity has attracted the attention of cybercriminal gangs; they use these malicious programs in targeted attacks on large organizations in order to steal money. In late 2016, we detected an increase in the number of attacks, the main goal of which was to launch an encryptor on an organization’s network nodes and servers. This […]
Evgeniy M. Bogachev is in his early thirties and lives a comfortable life among his collection of luxury cars in a small resort city on the shores of the Black Sea. He is the most-wanted cybercriminal in the world, and the FBI is offering 3 million dollars for his capture. The US accuses Bogachev of […]
Laptops, handheld video games, cameras, tablets… unless it has some sort of medical use, all electronic devices bigger than a smartphone will be banned from the cabin of all flights originating in North Africa and the Middle East and bound for the US or UK. The Trump administration announced the drastic measure, which will affect […]
It’s a tough economy out there. Things are looking up, alright. But for some low-life criminals like Joe Crook, ANY work will always be too much work anyway. So what do people like Joe Crook do? They scheme. They’re on the lookout for the latest scam so that they can defraud you of your hard-earnt […]
There’s a new challenge that lies ahead for businesses that have operations within the European Union. The new General Data Protection Regulation came into effect on 25 May, 2016, and will begin to be enforced 25 May, 2018. With the focus on protecting the fundamental rights and freedoms of natural persons and their right to the protection […]
As numerous studies have shown, smart houses, smart cars, and smart cities are undeniably beneficial to people in everyday life, but quite often can become a threat to their safety. It is not only a matter of personal data leakage. Just imagine that, for example, a smart refrigerator, affected by a third party at one […]
What You See Is What You Encrypt. The trend of installing malware on corporate networks through the Remote Desktop Protocol is booming among cybercriminals. In the last few months we have analyzed several cases of ransomware attacks directed at companies from different European countries that share this methodology and are being perpetrated by the same […]