HACKING

David Chukwuneke Adindu tricked victims into wiring millions of dollars into bank accounts he opened in China.

The malware surreptitiously harvests victims' credit card data, by conducting man-in-the-middle attacks.

Security experts suspect the malware, which has already been used against a target in the Middle East, was created by state-sponsored hackers.

Researchers found that around 27 of the top 100 most popular websites, as ranked by Alexa, were vulnerable to the ROBOT exploit.

Anonymous' call to arms to hacktivists across the world – hack, deface, dox, hijack, leak and DDoS any target linked to US and Israeli government.

Jha, a 21-year-old computer science student at Rutgers University, admitted to writing and implementing the Mirai code in July 2016.

Alongside the rest of the world, experts warn that North Korea is likely profiting from the rise of bitcoin, a cryptocurrency the regime has been hacking, stealing and mining.

Anonymous will reportedly launch a "destructive" cyberattack against the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) website in protest of plans to dismantle net neutrality

The threat actors even provide instructions on how to download and use the Tor browser to access the payment site.

Numerous companies and websites have been found running similar code on their own sites to covertly generate digital currencies as an alternative to advertising.

A Google researcher had teased the release of the exploit last week, inflaming the infosec community about the potential uses of the tool.

"This experience of searching and finding passwords within this database is as scary as it is shocking," researchers said.

The head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency warned that China is allegedly using social networks to try to cultivate lawmakers and other officials as sources.

The Vietnamese hacker has previously compromised numerous Vietnamese websites including those of telecom firms, banks and an online military newspaper.

Several popular websites and their software have already been found to be targeted by the StrongPity group.

The week in cybersecurity was largely dominated by cryptocurrency. That's unsurprising, given that bitcoin spiked in value, reaching $17,000 at one point.

The trojan's varied capabilities include disabling the light indicator on the webcam and even triggering the Blue Screen of Death if anyone tries to shut down the process.

The critical remote code execution flaws have not been exploited in the wild and Microsoft has already issued a patch for them.

A Google security researcher tweeted about dropping a powerful iOS 11 tool, which the infosec community reportedly suspects may allow a full iPhone jailbreak.

The then-Uber CEO Travis Kalanic was reoprtedly aware of the breach and the bug bounty payment, which was made in November 2016.

Major banking applications used by HSBC, NatWest and Co-op had potential to let hackers steal usernames and passwords of account holders.