For many years and until quite recently, credit card data stolen from online merchants has been worth far less in the cybercrime underground than cards pilfered from hacked brick-and-mortar stores. But new data suggests that over the past year, the economics of supply-and-demand have helped to double the average price fetched by card-not-present data, meaning cybercrooks now have far more incentive than ever to target e-commerce stores.

By Ryan De Souza

The majority of the bots are located in Brazil and Peru but the number of victims is constantly increasing across diverse regions. Threat actors who previously targeted cryptocurrency wallets through Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have now launched another malware loader to facilitate their botnet Trojan. This time, they have used the Smoke Loader […]

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A recently-patched critical flaw in Oracle WebLogic is being actively exploited to peddle a new ransomware variant, which researchers call "Sodinokibi."

Details are scarce, but the "backdoor" appears to be benign.

A bug in the popular anti-piracy framework allows a side-channel attack on premium content.

An Ohio parish lost a whopping $1.75 million after attackers breached two employees' email accounts - and then tricked other employees into sending wire transfers to a fraudulent bank account.

By Uzair Amir

The 24 GB database was hosted on a Microsoft cloud server. Another day, another data breach; this time researchers have discovered an unprotected cloud repository containing personal and financial information of more than 80 million US households. This incident reminds us of two similar breaches in which highly sensitive data of 200 million and 82 […]

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Penalties related to some HIPAA violations are lowered

When is an address bar not an address bar? When it's a fake.

What's worse than a massive data breach? A massive data breach followed by a shareholder derivative lawsuit. Learn what's at stake and what CISOs can do to mitigate the damage.