As cryptocurrency enjoys greater acceptance, it's no wonder there's been a correlative influx of schemes to grab some of the virtual loot during the lucrative holiday shopping season.
An unclassified e-mail system used by the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, their chairman and his support staff was infiltrated by Russian hackers in August 2015, according to CBS News, citing former Joint Chiefs Chairman Martin Dempsey.
A U.S. district court on Friday unsealed a federal indictment that charges three Romanian nationals with 21 counts of conspiracy, fraud and identity theft for their alleged roles in a cybercriminal operation known as Bayrob.
According to a research report, hackers are using Punycode, a technique for encoding domain names with Unicode characters, to bypass anti-phishing protections in Office 365 productivity software.
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