FireEye Gives Cyber Treaty With China Debt Losses

The American security firm FireEye lost last week a quarter of the market capitalization, which according to the company is partly due to the cyber treaty between the United States and China. Both countries have recently committed themselves not to engage in industrial espionage.

This would 'threat landscape' have become smaller, which has come down in the demand for the products of FireEye.However, Wall Street analysts are skeptical, especially now that more and more companies choose to tighten their security, reports news agency Reuters. According to Eric Johnson's Owen School of Management at Vanderbilt University is therefore an excuse FireEye for more tactical and implementation problems. Also, competition from other parties would play tricks on the company.

Third Suspect Arrested For Assault On TalkTalk

The British police for the third time this week arrested a suspect for the attack on the British ISP TalkTalk, with data from less than 1.2 million customers were stolen. That the Metropolitan Police today announced.

The third suspect was arrested yesterday afternoon. It is a 20-year-old man. Earlier this week, two boys were 15 and 16 arrested. The provider has since announced that there is indeed in the attack data is captured, but less than was initially assumed. It is less than 1.2 million e-mail addresses, names and phone numbers of customers. In addition, tens of thousands of birth dates, account numbers and partly made ​​unrecognizable credit and debit card data captured. How the attackers managed to pull the trigger is still unknown.

15-Year-Old Boy Arrested For Assault On TalkTalk

British police arrested a 15-year-old from Northern Ireland for the attack on the British ISP TalkTalk, reports the Metropolitan Police. It is still unclear whether the attack there customer data is captured.The provider sets in a statement that the investigation is still ongoing.

"But unfortunately there is a chance that some of the following information may be accessed," said TalkTalk. This relates to names, addresses, birth dates, email addresses, phone numbers, TalkTalk account details and credit and debit card information and / or bank details. The possible stolen card information, however, would not be able to be used for financial transactions. The provider is also pleased with the swift action of the police.

Microsoft Tackles Infections By Tesla Crypt-Ransomware

For Windows users against ransomware to protect Microsoft millions of computers on the presence of the Tesla Crypt-ransomware checked. Tesla Crypt is a form of ransomware that appeared in March this year and like other kinds of ransomware encrypts files for ransom.

What Tesla Crypt apart is that it searches for a large number of file extensions to encrypt and this has provided the specific iTunes and computer games. In recent weeks left tens of thousands of Windows users infected with this form of ransomware. In the first half of 2015 would Tesla Crypt and CryptoWall, another notorious ransomware families, more than a half million Windows computers have been infected. The victims of Tesla Crypt  had to pay almost 500 euros to recover their files.

Earlier versions of Tesla Crypt made ​​a mistake, making the files without paying could be decrypted via a free tool from Cisco. However resolved in new versions this error. Although there is a decrease in the number of infections is still Microsoft has decided to malware via the Malicious Software Removal Tool to detect (MSRT) and remove. The MSRT is a virus removal tool built into Windows that every month during the monthly patch cycle is updated with new virus definitions and perform a scan at the same time on the system.

FBI And Europol Disrupt Botnet Digital Bank Robbers

The FBI, the British National Crime Agency (NCA) and Europol are working to disrupt a botnet that criminals use to steal 30 million online bank accounts. It involves the Dridex-malware, where the US government yesterday for warned.

Through the malware managed to infect criminals in Moldova and other countries, computers and then steal data for Internet banking. In this way could then money from online accounts are stolen. One of the managers of the Dridex botnet has now sued. It is a 30 year old man from Moldova who in late August was arrested in Cyprus.

The various investigative agencies are now working for the malware to 'sink holes' so that the criminals behind the botnet can no longer control the infected computers. This involves a continuous campaign directed against different versions of Dridex and the criminals behind it, says Europol.