Cybercrime

A Kremlin security agency has ordered $15,000 of electric typewriters - sparking international gossip about a return to “old school” security measures.

Governments around the world are recruiting “cyber-mercenaries” - groups of skilled cyber professionals who target institutions such as banks and energy companies, British politicians have warned.

The threat of cyber attack loomed over the opening ceremony for the London Olympics last year, officials have revealed.

A sustained brute force cyber attack battered Nintendo’s defences for a month this summer - and allowed cybercriminals access to private data such as names, addresses and phone numbers for up to 24,000 accounts.

Investment research firm Morningstar says that personal information including credit card numbers for clients, email addresses and passwords may have been compromised during an intrusion into its systems in April 2012.

Many industries are now being targeted by well-tailored spear-phishing scams, the FBI has warned, with emails containing accurate information about victims, harvested from social networks or from previous intrusions into the same network.

Up to 900 million devices running Android could be affected by a new vulnerability which would allow cybercriminals “full control” over affected handsets, Bluebox Labs has warned.

Game publisher Ubisoft has fallen victim to a website hack, which exposed data including email addresses, user names and encrypted passwords.

Cybercriminals have targeted U.S. energy companies with a wave of brute force cyber attacks, according to the Industrial Control Systems Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT).