Chris Brook

Six members of a Ukrainian cybercrime ring were charged this week after they allegedly tried to illegally access the networks of a number of financial institutions.

Legislation filed late last week in the European Parliament that could broadly reform how convicted cybercriminals are handled fails to adequately differentiate good hackers from bad hackers, a political group argued today.

CERT warns of an unpatched vulnerability in HP’s Insight Diagnostics server management software that could lead to remote code execution attacks.

Calling it the company’s “most aggressive” botnet operation operation to date, Microsoft provided details early Wednesday evening regarding a massive disruption of the Citadel botnet.

A previously reported attack against Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) two years ago was actually much more widespread than initially reported according to a document released to banks from the FDIC late last month and recently uncovered.

Cloud-based note taking software Evernote this week pushed out three new security features including two-factor authentication for some users’ accounts, in hopes of adding an extra layer of protection to accounts.

Beta Bot, a new banking Trojan, has been refined with new infection capabilities and features that enable it to avoid detection by security software.