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«Bitcoin alternatives like Monero and Ethereum continue their overall upward trend in value,» explains Sandiford Oliver, Cybersecurity Researcher for Proofpoint, «Putting them squarely in the crosshairs of threat actors looking for quick profits and anonymous transactions.»

Cybersecurity researcher Brian Krebs reports that scam artists have begun sending personalized letters via snail mail, threatening to tell the recipient's spouse about an alleged extramarital affair unless he or she pays the extortionist several thousand dollars in bitcoin.

Cybersecurity researcher Chris Vickery likens his work to driving on country roads.

She's a senior cybersecurity researcher at Tel Aviv University, who also moonlights as a security consultant for banks and global financial institutions.

Masarah - Cynthia Paquet - Clouston, a criminologist with the University of Montreal, and Olivier Bilodeau, a cybersecurity researcher at Montreal - based company GoSecure, have uncovered a large botnet that recruits everyday devices such as connected toasters, fridges or even your grandmother's router to help commit social media fraud.

Another risk in casting blame is exposing the victim's intelligence capabilities for little gain, says Herbert Lin, a cybersecurity researcher at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.

«If they scream publicly but can't back that up, they incur loss of status,» says Howard Shrobe, a cybersecurity researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge who was not involved in the study.

Last year, more than 30,000 PCs at South Korean banks and broadcasting companies were hit by a similar attack that cybersecurity researchers widely believe was launched from North Korea.

Whoever knows the answer to this isn't telling — but if cybersecurity researchers, the Iranian government and vocal Internet users are to be believed, the two prime suspects are the U.S. and Israeli governments.

Cybersecurity researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have gone a step further.

Led by cybersecurity researchers from SRI International and ISI with decades of years of experience designing, building, and operating large cybersecurity testbeds, the effort involved more than 150 experts, representing 75 organizations.

GW has focused on cybersecurity in the last few years even having 10 cybersecurity researchers at GW that were awarded National Science Foundation grants in 2015.

In a new 50 page report, a team of MIT cybersecurity researchers asserts that the most vital economic systems in the U.S. are essentially defenseless, imploring the Trump administration to do something about it instead of just waiting for everything to come crashing down.

According to reports, cybersecurity researchers at China's 360Netlab revealed a strain of mining malware called ADB.Miner over the weekend.

While bitcoin does offer users a level of anonymity, it's not impossible to uncover the owners of bitcoin wallets — a tactic which has helped cybersecurity researchers and the authorities track down and arrest some cybercriminals.

Late last month, cybersecurity researchers at Israel's Ben - Gurion University of the Negev released a report claiming to have discovered a serious security vulnerability in the Galaxy S4 and other devices that run Samsung's Knox security...

Cybersecurity researchers recently discovered that malicious attackers are now targeting YouTube ads to distribute cryptocurrency mining software.

Cybersecurity researchers at Google also last month discovered and blocked a new form of spyware, called Lipizzan, designed to compromise specifically - targeted Android devices and monitor details from the phone's communications to its location.

A new form of spyware, designed to compromise specifically - targeted Android devices and monitor details from the phone's communications to its location, has been uncovered — and blocked — by cybersecurity researchers at Google.

Not exact matches

Researchers from the cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks (panw) said on Wednesday that they discovered new malware that can infect Apple iOS devices even if they aren't jailbroken.

Chris Vickery, a MacKeeper security researcher, wrote Monday that he discovered the unsecured user data in January and worked with security organization Spamhaus and cybersecurity news site CSO Online to further investigate the data breach.

«Over the last four years, ransomware has evolved into one of the biggest cybersecurity threats in the wild, with instances of ransomware in exploit kits increasing 259 % in the last five months alone,» said Malwarebytes senior security researcher Nathan Scott in a statement.

For the past year, researchers at iSight Partners, a cybersecurity firm in Dallas, have been tracking a new form of malware, dubbed ModPOS, that attacks point of sale, or POS, machines at the kernel.

Alex McGeorge, a senior security researcher at the cybersecurity firm Immunity Inc., agreed that the leak was most likely a «careless» mistake.

A team of researchers have developed a new encryption system that's basically hack - proof, potentially improving the state of cybersecurity.

The researchers released a report resulting from this activity, titled «Cybersecurity Experimentation of the Future (CEF): Catalyzing a New Generation of Experimental Cybersecurity Research,» in July 2015.

In the paper, the researchers examined two aspects of 3D printing that have cybersecurity implications: printing orientation and insertion of fine defects.

The Department of Homeland Security established its United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US - CERT) in 2003 to collect, analyze, disseminate and respond to cybersecurity information shared among government agencies, the private sector and researchers.

Researchers from Indiana University's Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research and University Information Technology Services» Research Technologies Division have contributed to the development of a new tool designed to help software developers close critical security holes in their products.

To this day, thousands of threat researchers keep tabs on cybersecurity issues around the world and continually update their technology to offer protections on multiple devices.

«They wanted to take a progressive approach in the gaming industry, when it comes to cybersecurity, by making their new game as authentic as possible,» said Vitaly Kamluk, a Kaspersky researcher who worked with Ubisoft.

Home Daily News Yes, there's an email encryption vulnerability;... Cybersecurity By Jason Tashea Posted May 14, 2018, 5:00 pm CDT European security researchers have released a warning regarding a vulnerability in PGP and S / MIME, a form of encryption used in email.

In May, Chris Vickery, a researcher at the cybersecurity firm UpGuard, discovered documents from the contractor Booz Allen Hamilton in an Amazon cloud account not protected by password or encryption.

A team of researchers have developed a new encryption system that's basically hack - proof, potentially improving the state of cybersecurity.

Researchers from the Russian - based cybersecurity firm Kaspersky have investigated another strain of malware, dubbed Loapi, which they found hiding in applications in the Android mobile operating system.

Last month, cybersecurity provider Kaspersky Lab reported that researchers had uncovered malware attacks being executed on cloud - based instant messaging service Telegram, for the purpose of illicit cryptocurrency mining.

Russian cybersecurity provider Kaspersky Lab reported that researchers had uncovered malware attacks being executed on cloud - based instant messaging service Telegram, for the purpose of illicit cryptocurrency mining.

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab, a cybersecurity company, have recently found multiple «mining» apps on the Google Play Store that are disguised otherwise.

That researcher was Chris Vickery, who worked for the cybersecurity firm UpGuard.

Chris Vickery, a researcher with cybersecurity firm UpGuard, first noticed the breach on June 13th and privately informed Verizon.

Anyone with a free Amazon Web Services account could have looked at the hoard of information stored in the cloud by the U.S. Defense Department, according to Chris Vickery, a researcher at cybersecurity firm UpGuard who discovered the exposure.

Leaving your phone or computer's Bluetooth on all the time has never been a good idea, but now researchers at the cybersecurity firm Armis are claiming to have discovered a series of vulnerabilities that allow them to silently hack devices over Bluetooth.

«The group uses social engineering techniques, such as phishing emails with malicious attachments - for example Word documents with embedded exploits - to target employees in financial institutions of interest,» says Sergey Golovanov, a principal security researcher at Moscow - based cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab.

The Israeli government has been looking to purchase hacking tools from European cybersecurity firms and researchers through its Berlin...

Researchers from Chinese Cybersecurity company 360Netlab has discovered a new Android - based cryptocurrency mining malware that infects vulnerable Android devices to mine cryptocurrency, as reported in a blog post from the firm on Feb. 6.

v3.co.uk - China's technology and internet clampdown comes as President Xi Jinping looks to become leader for life The Chinese government has taken action to ensure security researchers from the country to do not share their knowledge at cybersecurity events outside of China - particularly those in West...