Fraud

Tenth Anniversary Patch Tuesday brings crucial Microsoft Explorer fix

Microsoft issued four critical security bulletins and four additional important bulletins covering IE, Windows and Microsoft Office

Four suspected users of Silk Road Internet drug marketplace arrested in the UK

More arrests to follow, the U.K.'s new National Crime Agency said

Symantec seizes part of massive peer-to-peer botnet ZeroAccess

Researchers freed 500,000 infected computers from operators of the ZeroAccess botnet

Rogue hardware used in attempted cyberheist at Santander bank branch

One criminal impersonated a maintenance engineer and tried to attach a KVM switch to a bank computer for remote control purposes

Two sentenced to prison for point-of-sale credit card theft

The Romanian men targeted hundreds of computers at U.S. merchants, the DOJ says

NIST subjects draft cybersecurity framework to more public scrutiny

NIST seeks feedback from industry on common practices to secure IT systems

Cybercrime service automates creation of fake scanned IDs, other identity verification documents

The service produces high-quality fake scans that can be used in fraud attacks to impersonate victims, Group-IB researchers said

Software piracy discovered at the IRS

Attackers use Ramnit malware to target Steam users

New Ramnit variant uses man-in-the-browser techniques to capture Steam log-in credentials, Trusteer researchers said

More Android malware distributed through mobile ad networks

Security researchers from Palo Alto Networks found Android apps downloading malware from rogue mobile ad networks