Medical information is now worth up to 10 times the price of credit card details on online black markets, due to weak healthcare security and a thriving black market in data to be used for medical fraud.
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Auction site eBay has remained defiant about ‘active’ listings ,containing computer code, despite multiple reports indicating that these are being used for phishing attacks.
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The hit shoot ‘em up Destiny has been targeted by a cybercriminal gang thought to be behind recent attacks on game companies including Sony and Blizzard, creators of World of Warcraft.
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In what appears to be a misogynist attack directed at Harry Potter actress Emma Watson, a site has appeared supposedly offering a countdown until images of her are released online.
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Home Depot says it was hacked to the tune of 56 million payment cards. What is behind the current wave of cybercrime? This recorded presentation offers answers and some defensive strategies for organizations at risk.
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Home Depot staff repeatedly ignored the concerns of employees about the security of its systems, prior to the Home Depot data breach, now thought to be the largest in history.
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This week offered a lesson in how cybercriminals follow the news, and time their attacks to dupe the unwary – with several different attacks aimed at iPhone fans, in the week where Apple unveiled its iPhone 6.
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This Thursday, September 18, is the biggest day in Scottish political history, as the country votes on whether it should become independent from the United Kingdom – but an ESET security expert has warned cybercriminals could strike.
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Gamers have reported losing millions of dollars to hackers running customized software which allows them to steal weapons, loot money, and even make people blow up in their own apartments, according to prominent Grand Theft Auto V YouTube reporter DomIsLive, who devoted an issue of his daily show to GTA V hacks this month.
Yahoo News reports that multiple players have been affected by glitches in online games, described variously as “unfairly moddedâ€, ie using in-game tools, or simply as “hackedâ€.
DomIsLive, who has nearly half a million subscribers on YouTube, says that several of his subscribers reported losing “millions†in online games which had seemingly been hacked.
On Rockstar’s forums, various gamers complain about having lost large sums of in-game currency to similar GTA V hacks. DomIsLive claims to have seen multiple threads on the forums relating to the same or similar hacks.
ESET Distinguished Researcher Aryeh Goretsky looks in detail at the blurred lines between cheating and crime in an extended blog post on We Live Security, saying, “Computer gaming is a huge and a wildly successful market, and as in any system that works at scale, there are going to be so-called businessmen or entrepreneurs who “seek to optimize their return on investment through whatever means possible†or, to put it more succinctly, criminals who abuse the ecosystem.â€
It appears GTA V’s online game system is not exempt.
In one screenshot posted on DomisLive’s channel, a gamer complains, “Dear Rockstar, I have just been robbed of my weapons by an unfair modder. He stole my weapons, causing me to pay around 1,000,000 and I earned it fair and square, and I wondered if I could get my money back because I’m extremely frustrated.â€
A Rockstar games representative replies, saying that the team will investigate, but warning that, “Rockstar will definitely look into this, however they may not be able to reimburse you with weapons and/or GTA dollars.â€
It’s unclear whether one specific GTA V hack is responsible, or a multitude of methods. DomisLive advises his subscribers, “Losing their money in public sessions, I advise you to stay out of public sessions and stick to private sessions with this friend. If you see something strange happening, and if you see someone dropping their money, leave that lobby now.â€
Responses from his subscribers seem to indicate that the problem is worse on Xbox 360 than on PlayStation 3. One poster says, “On Xbox it seems like every 20 sessions you join, you find one [a hacker]. On the PS3 I haven’t found that many, and from what people have told me, it’s because there aren’t that many.â€
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British internet users opening a spam email are three times more likely to be facing a malicious URL than users in the US, according to new research by phishing email specialists Proofpoint. German and French internet users were hit by fewer still, with just a fifth of the levels British internet users endure.
British users appear to be being targeted with high levels of financial malware, such as the banking Trojan Dyre.
Oddly, this finding does not correlate to a high level of spam email targeting the country. Germans receive the highest percentage of spam email overall, according to Tech World.
The findings come from an analysis of seven billion URLs monitored every week over a three week period this summer.
Tech World comments, “This raises the possibility that the higher phishing email levels aimed at the UK are a random fluctuation and a result of when the time period chosen than a fundamental trend.”
Proofpoint responded via email that the high level of targeted financial phishing email suggested that Britain was being targeted with malware simply because it brought lucrative returns.
“The attacks are clearly financially motivated. We’ve historically seen higher volumes of attacks targeted at regions that generate more success for the attackers because that’s where the money is,” said Proofpoint VP of security, Kevin Epstein.
“Relative to other countries in this report, this is a startlingly high number of targeted attacks against the UK. Given the financial motivations of the attacks, this strongly suggests cybercriminals have found UK organizations to be an unusually lucrative target.”
Infosecurity Magazine points out that among the malicious payloads delivered to British users was a high number of emails containing the Dyre banking Trojan, which was in the headlines again last week, after the malware was used to target users of the popular Customer Relationship Management software Salesforce.
Named Dyre, or Dyreza (and detected by ESET software as Win32/Battdil.A), the Trojan software was discovered by researchers investigating a phishing scam that was spreading via Dropbox. It is believed to be a completely new family of malware, similar to but sufficiently distinct from, the Zeus malware.
Dyre has been designed to target certain banks in particular – Bank of America, CitiGroup, but also a large number of British banks, in particular NatWest, RBS and Ulsterbank.
It is thought to be an example of ‘crime-as-a-service’ – malware for hire to the highest bidder. It has been found able to bypass both SSL encryption and two-factor authentication systems.
Speaking to Infosecurity, Proofpoint suggested that the malware had, “become increasingly popular in the wake of the Gameover Zeus takedown.”
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