Supplier that handles billing and online payments for health-care provider became aware of incident Oct. 1.

The multi-year campaign used malware and botnets to falsify billions of webpages and "site users."

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8 suspects behind 3VE have also been identified. Last year in August, the Federal Bureau of Investigation organized a secret meet-up between cybersecurity and digital advertising experts in its Manhattan federal building. This included Google and nearly 20 tech firms while there were nearly 30 attendees at the meeting. The agenda of the meeting was to […]

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Eight people face charges for their alleged role in global cybercrime operation

DNS-related outage follows extended downtime last week

Sophisticated operation preyed on high-value targets

Responsible disclosure helps to put vulnerabilities on ice

Examples of how attackers carry out mass exploitation campaigns and how to defend against them.

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In 2015, Beijing based laptop manufacturer and seemingly reliable technology company Lenovo made headlines that its 750,000 laptops had pre-installed adware called VisualDiscovery developed by Superfish. The adware played a vital role in compromising online security protections installed by the users on their laptops, accessed financial data and performed man-in-the-middle attack on private and secure connections […]

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Colleagues of slain Javier Valdez Cárdenas, known for investigating drug cartels, were targeted just days after his death.