Hacked US Treasury websites serve visitors malware

Websites operated by the US Treasury Department are redirecting visitors to websites that attempt to install malware on their PCs, a security researcher warned on Monday.

The infection buries an invisible iframe in bep.treas.gov, moneyfactory.gov, and bep.gov that invokes malicious scripts from grepad.com, Roger Thompson, chief research officer of AVG Technologies, told The Register. The code was discovered late Sunday night and was active at time of writing, about 12 hours later.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/03/treasury_websites_attack/

Miley Cyrus Hacker Still Hacking

"FEBRUARY 25--Undeterred by an FBI probe into his hacking of Miley Cyrus's e-mail account and MySpace page, a Tennessee man continues to engage in other computer intrusions and spamming operations, according to his own admissions. Joshua Holly, 20, has recently described his ongoing hacking and spamming activities in forums on the Digital Gangster web site, where Holly first distributed racy images of Cyrus he found in her Gmail account. In posts this month, Holly bragged about hacking Google's new "Buzz" feature, and he previously offered to sell a "bot" that spams Facebook users. According to the below search warrant affidavit, filed last year in U.S. District Court in Nashville, FBI agents have been probing Holly's Cyrus hacks since July 2008."

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China Jails Trojan Virus Authors in Cybercrime Crackdown

A Chinese court Wednesday sentenced 11 members of a malware ring for writing and distributing Trojan horse viruses meant to steal online game account passwords, according to state media.

The people, who stole login information for more than 5 million game accounts, were given prison sentences of up to three years and were fined a total of 830,000 Chinese yuan (US$120,000), China's Xinhua news agency said. Dozens of other members of the ring, which is suspected of 30 million yuan ($4.4 million) in crime, are expected to be sentenced soon, Xinhua said.

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/184909/china_jails_trojan_virus_authors_in_cybercrime_crackdown.html

Tory MP hacked on Facebook

IT security and control firm Sophos is reminding computer users to be on their guard against phishing attacks following news that the Facebook account of Conservative MP for Lichfield, Michael Fabricant, has been hacked.

According to reports, the MP fell foul of a phishing campaign that stole his username and password, and hackers then sent messages to Fabricant's 1,500 friends saying "Look at this!" and pointing recipients to a malicious webpage. Facebook has now suspended the politician's page.

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Hacker demands $10M ransom for data

May 07, 2009

A hacker who claims to have stolen 8 million records from a database that tracks prescription drug abuse in Virginia is demanding a $10 million ransom for the information's return, according to media reports.

"I have your s@*t! In *my* possession, right now, are 8,257,378 patient records and a total of 35,548,087 prescriptions," the WikiLeaks note reads. "Also, I made an encrypted backup and deleted the original. Unfortunately for Virginia, their backups seem to have gone missing, too. Uhoh :("

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Senator says his office computers were hacked

"One of attacks looked "pretty serious, and it [was] talking to a computer in some international arena,” Nelson said during the March 19 hearing". Read more

IPhone Jailbreak hack Violates Law

February 13, 2009 (Computerworld) Hacking an iPhone is against the law, Apple Inc. has argued in comments filed with the U.S. Copyright Office.

According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a freedom-of-speech advocacy organization, this is the first public statement from Apple about its legal position on "jailbreaking," the term used to describe hacking an iPhone to install third-party applications not sold via Apple's own App Store. Read more...

FAA files hacked... again

Hackers have once again gained entry to the US Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA's) computers.

Tom Waters, president of union Local 3290, and an FAA contract attorney, revealed that FAA officials told union leaders that hackers had gained entry to 48 files. Two of them may have provided the bad guys with names and social security numbers of 45,000 employees and retirees. However, another file they got their hands on, which contained medical information, was encrypted. Read more...

CheckFree warns 5 million customers after hack

January 6, 2009 (IDG News Service) CheckFree Corp. and some of the banks that use its electronic bill payment service are notifying more than 5 million customers that criminals took control of several of the company's Internet domains and redirected customer traffic to a malicious Web site hosted in the Ukraine. Read more...

MD5 considered harmful today

MD5 attacks and proof of concepts. Read more...

SF engineer to stand trial in hijacked network

A network administrator will stand trial for allegedly hijacking the network he designed and maintained for the city of San Francisco. Read more...

IMF Hacked

Another major international financial institution has had its computer system attacked by unknown cyber-hackers, FOX News has learned. Read more...

Hacking The Hill

How the Chinese -- or someone -- hacked into House of Representatives computers in 2006, and what it will take to keep out the next electronic invader. Read more...

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The future of fighting fraud

In the days when all hacking was done via a fixed phone line, the first skill a novice learnt was how to get free calls. Without that their exciting new hobby was likely to prove too expensive. Read more...