Cybercriminals are becoming a threat that rivals terrorist groups like al Qaeda, according to the nation's top law enforcement official.
This is part one of a week-long series on the ecosystem of cybercrime.
Divided into two teams, cyber attackers and cyber defenders get a lesson in an "attack" on critical infrastructure.
Nanhao Group is, in many ways, an ordinary technology company. Its staff make online scoring systems, exam-mark scanners and other educational hardware and software.
CNN's Brian Todd reports on a massive cyberspying operation targeting dozens of governments and companies worldwide.
As Android devices get more popular (today comScore reports Android phones comprise 40% of the U.S. smartphone market), they're becoming a more attractive target for cybercriminals. If you use an Android smartphone, you are now 2.5 times more likely to encounter malware (malicious software) than you were six months ago.
Computer hackers targeted the Zimbabwean stock exchange for the second time this week and used it as a phishing site, an official said Friday.
South Korean police arrested five men Thursday for allegedly collaborating with North Korean computer experts to hack into online game systems to generate millions of dollars in illicit gains.
Repeated and constant cyber attacks against the United States have turned the country's assessment of national security threats on its head.
This is part three of a week-long series on the ecosystem of cybercrime.
This is part two in a week-long series on the ecosystem of cybercrime.
Fourteen people have been arrested as part of an ongoing operation targeting the notorious hacking collective known as Anonymous, the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI said on Tuesday.
For one day, at least, you can call off the cyberwar.
From scanning news headlines over the last couple of months, you might think the walls around Internet strongholds are made of rotting wood.
A British man charged with attacks on three websites is due to appear in court Thursday, Scotland Yard said.
CNN's Deb Feyerick goes inside a state-of-the-art cloud and tells you how to keep your information safe.
On Wednesday, Google announced that hundreds of users of its Gmail service -- including high-ranking U.S. and South Korean officials, journalists and Chinese political activists -- had been targeted by hackers who sought to steal their passwords and monitor their e-mails. Google concluded the attack came from a provincial capital in eastern China, which is also the location of a technical reconnaissance center for the Chinese military.
CNN's Brian Todd reports hackers tapped into the personal Gmail accounts of government employees and military personnel.
The targeted phishing scheme that struck hundreds of top U.S. government officials' personal Gmail accounts was neither difficult to perform nor incredibly sophisticated.
Hundreds of personal Gmail accounts, including those of some senior U.S. government officials, were hacked as a result of a massive phishing scheme originating from China, Google said Wednesday.
CNN's John Vause speaks with Andrew Lih about cyber attacks on Google Gmail accounts.
The Pentagon has a new strategy for handling cyber attacks: treat them as acts of war. But is this the best approach?
The Pentagon is formulating a new strategy on how to respond to cyberattacks that would include using military force, a spokesman confirmed late Tuesday.
FBI agents combating international cybercrime are currently battling hackers on two new fronts -- from a remote corner of China to the virtual battlefields of "Call of Duty" emanating from the family playroom.
CNN's Brian Todd looks into the second cyber attack against an Iranian nuclear facility and who may be responsible.
Hot in your inbox: "Kate's Wedding Dress Details - Leaked!" and "Prince William's Bachelor Party Photos!" If you click on these emails, then you've probably been spammed!
A Malaysian man accused of hacking into the Federal Reserve's computer system pleaded guilty Wednesday in New York.
Last week the news broke that the world's largest permissions-based e-mail marketing company, Epsilon, had been hacked -- compromising the security of an unknown number of e-mail addresses and names. Major companies with millions of customers, such as JP Morgan Chase and Target, sent e-mail notices alerting customers of the breach.
Motherboard.tv looks at the bizarre criminal world of Ghana's e-mail scam gangs.
The European Union is under cyber attack, a spokesman said Thursday, as a major international summit begins.
From CBC News. Canada's federal government is under an unprecedented cyber attack against their computers.
Spamming e-mail is so last year.
CNN's Brian Todd investigates claims that Visa and MasterCard are under cyber attack from supporters of Julian Assange.
Media outlets and a Twitter feed this week lobbed a controversial term into the public debate about cyber attacks over WikiLeaks:
After posting thousands of secret government documents, WikiLeaks came under an electronic attack designed to make it unavailable to users, the whistle-blower website said Tuesday.
An international cybercrime ring was broken up Thursday by federal and state officials who say the alleged hackers used phony e-mails to obtain personal passwords and empty more than $3 million from U.S. bank accounts.
It's only a drill and no computers will be harmed in testing now underway to check whether governments, private industry, and other computer infrastructure could handle a major cyberspace attack.
The public and private sector are not doing enough to share information that could help prevent a catastrophic cyberattack on the nation's critical infrastructure, according to a report by the General Accountability Office released on Monday.
Like most college students, Jake McCoy had to apply for several loans to pay for his education.
A stolen bag. Lost cash. A missing passport.
Internet fraud cases surged by 22% in 2009, and financial losses doubled compared to the year before as scammers took advantage of Americans rendered desperate by the recession.
If you're on Twitter, it may be a good idea to change your password today.
This week's arrests of three men in connection with one of the world's largest computer-virus networks may seem like great news -- perhaps even a sign authorities are starting to win the war against cyberthieves.
A Washington think tank staged a mock cyberattack on the United States on Tuesday in a bid to evaluate strategies for fighting cyberterrorists. Former senior government officials gathered at the Bipartisan Policy Center to play the roles of Cabinet members responding to a simulated attack on the nation's computer infrastructure.
Google said Tuesday that it may leave China and shut down its strictly monitored site there, Google.cn, citing censorship rules and a targeted cyber attack on its network infrastructure.
Major countries and nation-states are engaged in a "Cyber Cold War," amassing cyberweapons, conducting espionage, and testing networks in preparation for using the Internet to conduct war, according to a new report to be released on Tuesday by McAfee.
If you're on Facebook, Twitter or any other social networking site, you could be the next victim.
If you're on Facebook, Twitter or any other social networking site, you could be the next victim.
Authorities indicted 100 Americans and Egyptians on Wednesday in the smashing of an international identity theft ring billed as one of the largest cybercrime cases ever.
The 2010 Census is nearly under way, but don't expect an e-mail from the U.S. Census Bureau asking you personal questions in its head count of America.
An independent research group predicts that cyberwarfare will accompany future military conflicts and is recommending international action to blunt its impact.
If the word 'cybercrime' conjures up images of computer geeks trying to crash computers from their mothers' basements, think again.
The Briton accused of hacking into U.S. government computers on Friday lost his court appeal to have his case heard in Britain, his legal team said.
North Korea is thought to be behind recent cyber attacks in South Korea. CNN's Sohn Jie-Ae reports.
CNN's Kristie Lu Stout talks to Kevin Voigt, CNN.com business editor, about the power of words in cyberspace
Facebook stopped a phishing attack on Thursday, its second day in a row of dealing with a worm on the site that lures people to a fake Facebook page and prompts them to log in.
Computer hackers have embedded software in the United States' electricity grid and other infrastructure that could potentially disrupt service or damage equipment, two former federal officials told CNN.
CNN's Jeanne Meserve reports foreign hackers have embedded software in the U.S. electric grid.
Internet-based rip-offs jumped 33 percent last year over the previous year, according to a report from a complaint center set up to monitor such crimes.
Hundreds of investigations of online child sexual exploitation and child pornography have been significantly delayed by backlogs at FBI cybercrime labs, according to a Justice Department report released Friday.
As the U.S. presidential elections draw closer, voting activists are bracing themselves for an onslaught of online dirty tricks and misinformation campaigns designed to deceive and disenfranchise voters.
As the U.S. presidential elections draw closer, security experts and voting activists are bracing themselves for an onslaught of online dirty tricks and misinformation campaigns designed to deceive and disenfranchise voters.
Back in the good old days of the Internet, the hacker was a teenager motivated by high-tech pranks and bragging rights. Today, the online thief could be anyone with 'Net access after a quick buck.
A New Zealand teenager has been questioned in connection with a scheme by hackers to remotely take over more than 1 million computers worldwide and use them for criminal activity, New Zealand police and the FBI said Thursday.
People should be on the lookout for a new e-mail scam soliciting donations to California wildfire victims in the name of the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. government
Internet pirates have begun to turn away from traditional attack modes such as viruses and worms and are increasingly using targeted emails and other techniques to swipe critical personal information, according to an Internet security report released Monday.
If you get an e-mail announcing the cost-of-living increases scheduled for 2007 Social Security benefits and purporting to be from the Social Security Administration, don't answer it and don't click on any links in the e-mail.
Akin is, like many things in cyberspace, an alias. In real life he's 14. He wears Adidas sneakers, a Rolex Submariner watch, and a kilo of gold around his neck.
Raze Software offers a product called CC2Bank 1.3, available in freeware form - if you like it, please pay for it. Raze's attractively designed Web site, registered in Belarus, may suggest a shaky command of English -"I shall pleased any estimation in respect of my programs and this page," it reads - but it displays the classic characteristics of web commerce, like visitor statistics, advertising, and links to Web sites of partners.
It's just the news that hardworking taxpayers want to see in their inbox: an update on their refund from the Internal Revenue Service.
Cybercrime is on the rise -- and today's attacks are often silent, hard to detect and highly targeted, according to a new survey.
FSB: Data Lockdownupdated: Fri Jan 20 2006 10:02:00
A recent survey estimated that almost two million Internet users in the U.S. inadvertently gave personal information to cyberscammers last year. Increasingly the weapon of choice is a "phishing" ex...
Tuesday is expected to be a very busy day for online shoppers and for cyber thieves, according to a published report.
A British Internet-security firm is warning people to not get hooked by an e-mail scam promising tax refunds from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.
Internet criminals want your computer, your money and your identity. And their tactics are becoming increasingly refined and organized, according to security experts.
Internet criminals want your computer, your money and your identity. And their tactics are becoming increasingly refined and organized, according to security experts.
CNNMoney: Gone phishingupdated: Thu Jun 30 2005 16:55:00
An unwelcome dose of reality hit the booming online marketing industry this week. Online security fears are beginning to lower confidence in online commerce.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - News that hackers broke into the database of payment processor CardSystems, which contained information on over 40 million credit card accounts, raises the obvious question: Who did it?
Don't open those e-mail attachments that appear to be from the FBI. They might contain a computer virus.
Police and prosecutors are fashioning a new weapon in their arsenal against criminals: digital evidence. The sight of hard drives, Internet files and e-mails as courtroom evidence is increasingly common.
As David Perry left a cyber-security conference in Luxembourg in 2004, an airport terminal handling international flights was in chaos.
Since the devastating tsunami in South Asia last month, Americans have been generously donating to relief efforts.
The Internet has played an unprecedented role supplying aid, money and information in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunamis.
This holiday season, there's one gift you don't want to give -- your identity. But there are a slew of con artists trying to get just that.
Phishing is a particularly pernicious type of Internet identity theft scam. So far, little has been done to stop it. But that will change if a promising new anti-phishing bill introduced by Senator Patrick Leahy becomes law.
Someday soon, if it hasn't happened already, you'll open an e-mail from eBay (or Citibank or Visa or another merchant or financial institution) informing you that your account has a problem. It will ask you to visit the company's Web site to straighten it out.
E-mail users are being warned about a new identity theft scam that tries to snare victims by accusing them of violating the government's anti-terrorism Patriot Act.
If you read the newspapers, you might get the impression that cybercrime is limited to a handful of near cataclysms--the Melissa virus, say, or the coordinated attacks that brought eBay and Yahoo t...
If insurers have their way, cautious companies will buy one of the dozens of new computer-crime policies designed to protect corporate America's swelling digital assets.
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