If you call your hacking conglomerate Evil Corp and steal tens of millions of dollars from banks and individuals over the course of a decade, you can probably expect an indictment at some point. For alleged Evil Corp leader Maksim Yakubets, it came this week, as US and UK authorities charged him and an associate with hacking thefts that totaled over $100 million. A separate criminal complaint also ties Yakubets to the infamous Zeus trojan. There's also a $5 million reward out for information leading to the arrest of cybercriminal mastermind—but don't hold your breath.
We also took a look at vulnerabilities caused by the sloppy implementation of Rich Communication Services, the protocol that's on its way to replacing SMS for texting and more. Even if you're not familiar with RCS, you're going to encounter it on Android soon; Google recently made it the default for its stock Messenger app. But unless it and the various carriers who have embraced it as the future of texting get their acts together, it doesn't look much more secure than the recent past.
Speaking of the past, Microsoft patched what it considered a low-severity bug in Microsoft Outlook in 2017. So far, so good. But hackers have since figured out how to get around that fix, leaving Outlook alarmingly exposed to attacks at a time when email has become a target. Security firm FireEye recently sounded a warning that it had seen lots of activity lately associated with the bug, ranging from state-sponsored hacking crews to, well, other security firms on pen-testing missions.
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