Rob Waugh

Cybercriminals ‘manage’ phishing emails using techniques similar to those used by marketing agencies, including the use of ‘test audiences’ to see how effective a particular email is, according to an email security specialist.

The head of Europol’s cyber crime division, Troels Oerting, has warned against using public Wi-Fi hotspots, after the law enforcement agency has seen an increase in the misuse of public Wi-Fi for identity theft and financial attacks.

University of Berkeley researchers have revealed a technique for identifying individual web pages visited ‘securely’ by users, with up to 89% accuracy, revealing data such as health conditions, financial details and sexual orientation.

Android phones and tablets from four different manufacturers are arriving with malware “pre-installed” - a bogus version of Netflix which sends password and credit card information to Russia, according to app security specialist Marble Security.

Criminals seeking to kill endangered species and sell trophies online are turning to increasingly hi-tech methods to target their prey - including cyber attacks built to steal information on where animals patrol, according to the World Wildlife Fund’s Wildlife Crime division.

The attackers were able to steal all the bitcoins stored in the bank’s “hot wallet” - the portion of its funds on computers accessible via the internet - due to a transaction flaw in its code.

An emailed warning and enforced password reset sent out to Twitter users on Monday due to a supposed compromise of their accounts provoked much discussion among site users - before the company admitted the reset had been initiated by mistake.

More than 300,000 wireless routers worldwide are under the control of an unknown group of cybercriminals, who have made malicious changes to the devices' settings - and the attack is part of a "growing trend", researchers claim.

Bitcoin exchange Mt Gox has admitted that nearly $500 million in bitcoin has “disappeared”, in a new statement posted online - as chunks of computer code have appeared on Pastebin which appear to be part of the backend for the site.