The Apple Developer platform has been hacked

Apple today issued a report that the unidentified hackers broke into its developer site, stealing a volume of data associated with the program participants Apple Developer.

In response to the attack, which was held on Thursday, the company said a review of systems for developers, software upgrades and rebuilds the database.

In an email sent out to programmers around the world from Apple, said that the attackers were designed to steal personal information from the site, as well as receive other private data stored on servers with limited access. In Apple said that in the database, which was accessed, the data is stored in a secure manner, that is, they were encrypted, so attackers are unlikely to actually get the data, but nonetheless is 100% impossible to exclude that possibility.

"We can not rule out that the names, email addresses, postal addresses and phone numbers of some developers will find themselves in the hands of the attackers," - said in a statement Apple. Also, the company said that the Apple Developer site was still offline on Thursday, and now the company is working on a system of protection against new attacks.

Club Nintendo Japan has been hacked

Japanese Nintendo announced today that its main fan site was attacked by hackers who have gained access to data about approximately 24,000 users.

In the hands of criminals were the names, addresses, phone numbers, and email data users. Project Club Nintendo has been attacked by powerful solutions for over passwords and logins. It is known that all hackers a few days spent 15.5 million automated login attempts, of which just under 24,000 were successful.

In Nintendo reported that they became aware of the burglary last week and the last few days, the company will review the technical data. In addition, the server logs data remains on a very large number of failed login attempts and engineers now they understand. Also, the company said that the first signs of attack began to show more June 9, but in the last days of the attack significantly increased.

Club Nintendo website now operates worldwide, it reaches around 4 million people, but the most popular project is just in Japan.

Blizzard Members faced a new phishing attack

In the Internet unfolded a new phishing attack aimed directly at fans of multiplayer role-playing games.

Users find in their mailboxes letter with the heading «Blizzard Entertainment IP Restrictions», which informs recipients that their accounts have been compromised. Potential victims advised to confirm the legitimacy of the accounts from the following link.

The letter came illiterate and not authentic. The naked eye can see that the message is not received from Blizzard. Users who clicked on the button after all, got a phishing website trying to lure in visitors personal information. Representatives of Blizzard admitted that these are part of a phishing email scams.

Do not think that this attack is successful. The fact that apart illiterate text document have been admitted actual errors. The letters were signed by «Blizzard Entertainment - Guild Wars 2 Support».

Ubisoft server hacked: stolen customers e-mail, passwords

The largest company Ubisoft, which manufactures and publisher of video games, today announced that its database of user accounts has been compromised. Company asks all customers to urgently change passwords.

According to the developers, hackers gained access to a database of all accounts by stealing the users' names and e-mail-addresses and encrypted passwords. The company stresses that it is not stored on the server billing information users, so that credit and debit cards do not fall into the wrong hands. However, because the passwords were stolen, the company recommends that users change them, not only in the services Ubisoft, but other sites where they use them.

The company Ubisoft - a giant company, which includes dozens of units in different parts of the world. This company produces a popular game series Assassin's Creed, Just Dance, Tom Clancy's The Division, Splinter Cell, Rayman Raving Rabbits. Company representatives did not specify exactly how the crackers were able to get into your system. Allegedly, criminals stole data from one account to get access to all the company's internal network.

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Hackers helped criminals to supervise transportations of narcotics

The Prosecutor's Office of Denmark stated that local law enforcement officers in cooperation with the Belgian police managed to defuse an international criminal gang of drug traffickers. The most interesting is the fact that in order to control the movement of drugs, gang members broke into the control system for the movement of goods of different transport companies.

According to police, the criminals managed to crack the sites of two of the largest container points at the port of Antwerp, Belgium. In addition, with the target of phishing (malicious emails containing keyloggers) attackers gathered information stored on infected computers transportation companies.

The malware infects BIOS

Unusual malware infects your computer in the European countries, including Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany.

So far about this mysterious application known very little, but, according to the victims, it is a malicious application directly affects the computer's BIOS.

Employees ThreatTrack Security argue that malware works on the same principle as any ransomware, but it does not require the victim to pay a certain penalty. Instead, when a person downloads the computer, the screen just shows the girl-DJ and the inscription "YOU STEAL MUSIC, I LOCK YOUR PC".

It is not entirely clear how it spreads malicious software. Experts believe that it is simply downloaded from a BitTorrent-sites together with another torrent. Remains a mystery is who is behind the virus. Perhaps to blame offended musician, whose work actively spread through pirate sites.

20% of phishing attacks aimed at banks

Every fifth phishing attack, registered in the period from May 2012 to April, 2013, was aimed at banks and financial institutions.

Thus, a total of 20.64% of all phishing attacks during that time experienced the financial web-based resources. To such conclusion experts "Kaspersky Lab".

The results of the study "Kaspersky Lab" indirectly confirmed by the banks themselves. Thus, according to the results of a global survey conducted this spring by the analytic agency B2B International in conjunction with the "Kaspersky Lab", about 37% of the banks were subjected to phishing attacks at least once in the last 12 months.

Careful intruders attention to banks and of e-commerce is not surprising. So, if phishers spoof pages, such as search or email services, then they can get illegal earnings by selling the personal data of victims of such attacks. If cybercriminals fake pages themselves online banking or popular online stores, they tend to immediately get the money.