A recently discovered form of ransomware is being used in a highly targeted campaign that may have its roots in North Korea, according to security researchers at Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. Called Ryuk, the ransomware was first detected in the wild in mid-August. In the days following, it infected several organizations in the U.S. Reflecting ...

Microsoft Corp. said Monday that it had shut down six domains relating to an effort by Russian state-sponsored hackers to hack conservative organizations and senators. The domains were being used as part of a phishing campaign that attempted to gain login details for sites with similar names to those being used by the hackers. Domains ...

A California man has been indicted on multiple charges in relation to him operating as a “bitcoin exchanger” between 2014 and 2016. Jacob Burrell Campos, 21, was arrested Thursday while entering the U.S. at the Mexican border. A court ordered he be held without bail on 31 charges relating to his bitcoin dealings. In an indictment ...

New research released by the reviews site TheBestVPN claims that vulnerabilities in routers from Netgear Inc., D-Link Corp. and ZTE Corp. could result in “a complete takeover of your router.” Reported today by TechRadar with limited details, the vulnerabilities initially appears to be accessed by the creation of a malicious web page or link that injects ...

The Winklevoss twins’ Virtual Commodity Association has finally gotten off the ground in the form of an initial working group with the backing of four cryptocurrency exchanges operating in the U.S. First proposed back in March, the VCA is aiming to be a self-regulatory organization designed to police digital-currency markets and custodians. The VCA Working Group, ...

A new report claims Apple Inc. is digging into its past for future products in the form of a new low-cost Mac Mini desktop and MacBook Air laptop as it apparently seeks to offer products to more price-conscious consumers. Bloomberg, quoting people familiar with the plans, today said the new Mac Mini would end a ...

The days of minor cryptocurrencies may be numbered as the market shifts back into bitcoin for secure long-term growth. The market move away from minor cryptocurrencies to bitcoin hit a breakthrough level Aug. 11, when it was reported that bitcoin had returned to 50 percent of the cryptocurrency market by value, the first time in ...

Three suspects have been arrested in China on allegations they were behind the hacking theft of bitcoin and Ethereum worth $87 million from multiple victims. The story starts in March, when a man made a formal complaint to police in the city of Xi’an, Shaanxi Province. He said his computer system had been hacked and his ...

The Necurs botnet that made headlines last year for taking screenshots and gathering data from infected personal computers is back in the news with a new phishing campaign targeting banks. Detailed in a blog post by security firm Cofense Inc., the campaign started Wednesday and has so far targeted 2,700 bank domains and employees who ...

A teen in Melbourne, Australia, has appeared before a court for allegedly hacking Apple Inc. and stealing 90 gigabytes of data from its corporate server. Fairfax Media reported today that the teen, unnamed because of Australian law, appeared before the Children’s Court of Victoria Thursday local time on unspecified criminal charges relating to his hacking of the ...