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Banks Bilked Out Of More Than $1 Billion

Reuters is reporting that Kaspersky Labs is working with Interpol, Europol and other law enforcement authorities to ferret out more details of the attack, but they have announced several details. Gene Kaspersky, founder and head of Kaspersky Labs is well known in white hat (good guy) hacking circles.  His public pronouncements, while sometimes flashy, usually […]

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Company Bilked Out Of $17 Million in Spear Phishing Attack

Scoular Company, a $6 Billion, 800 employee commodities trading company got bilked out of a little more that $17 million in a modified spear phishing attack. Simply put, the attacker generated emails over time last summer to the company’s CFO that looked like they came from the company’s CEO and their Auditor that instructed the […]

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Apple iOS Users Are Target Of Massive Espionage Campaign

It is being reported by several sources (see here) that iPhone and iPad users are being targeted as part of a massive cyber espionage campaign that is being linked, at least by one firm, to Russia. Operation Pawn Storm is using a specially crafted iOS app to quietly steal text messages, contact lists, location information, […]

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