By Bruce Finley From The Denver Post Denver—Federal Bureau of Investigation officials in Denver are warning travelers and shoppers to avoid public free phone charging portals, warning that “bad actors” use these to install malware and tracking software onto computers and phones. “Bad actors have figured out ways to use public USB ports to introduce…

U.S. law enforcement authorities along with international partners have disrupted a “criminal online marketplace” that stole data from millions of computers infected with malware. Founded in March 2018, Genesis Market was an online platform that offered access to data stolen from more than 1.5 million compromised computers containing over 80 million account access credentials. In…

SEOUL—North Korean regime-backed hackers referenced the deadly Halloween crush in Seoul to distribute malware to users in South Korea, Google’s Threat Analysis group said in a report. The malware was embedded in Microsoft Office documents which purported to be a government report on the tragedy that killed more than 150 people after tens of thousands…

A new type of crypto-malware identified on Alphabet Inc-owned Google’s YouTube has been found to infect users’ devices and steal from 30 different types of cryptocurrency wallets and browsers. What Happened According to a recent report from cyber intelligence firm Cyble Research Labs, the newly developed cryptocurrency stealer named “PennyWise” uses multithreading to steal user data….

Apple Inc.’s iPhone is not immune to malware attacks when it is switched off, researchers at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany said in a research paper titled “Evil Never Sleeps.” A new type of malware developed by researchers at the university can infest the iPhone. Even with a user-initiated shutdown, the iPhone can be located through the…

Malicious actors are waging “increasingly sophisticated” attacks on smartphone and app users, according to a new report from U.S. mobile security firm Zimperium. According to its Global Mobile Threat Report 2022, around 30 percent of “zero-day” vulnerabilities—a known weakness in a system that has yet to be patched—were found in mobile devices over the course…

By Aman Jain The struggle to fight against cybersecurity breaches is real. There has been a concerning increase in data breaches of late. Since the onset of the pandemic, the FBI reported a 300 percent rise in cybercrimes like spear-phishing. Q2 2021 hedge fund letters, conferences and more Spear-phishing is a cybercrime that steals sensitive financial information via email. It…

Hackers using a custom Trojan-type malware stole nearly 26 million login credentials—emails or usernames and associated passwords—from almost a million websites over a two year period, including from such namesakes as Amazon, Facebook, and Twitter, according to cybersecurity provider NordLocker. The malware infiltrated over 3 million Windows-based computers between 2018 and 2020, with the cyber…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands—European and North American cyber cops have joined forces to disrupt what may be the world’s largest network for seeding malware infections. The operation appears to strike a major blow against criminal gangs that have used that network for years to install ransomware for extortion schemes and to steal data and money. Separately,…