Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2023

FIN7 is a Russian criminal group (aka Carbanak ) that has been active since mid-2015, it focuses on restaurants, gambling, and hospitality industries in the US to harvest financial information that was used in attacks or sold in cybercrime marketplaces. They then use OpenSSH and Impacket to move laterally and deploy Clop ransomware.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

KELA identified around 600 victims by analyzing ransomware actors’ blogs and negotiation portals, data leak sites and public reports. Compared to the second quarter of 2022, the activity decreased by 8%, falling from July to August but increasing from August to September. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2022

The cybercrime gang has been active since at least January 2020. ”” ZingoStealer first appeared in the threat landscape in March 2022 and according to the Talos experts it is currently undergoing active development. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime). To nominate, please visit:? Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

technology companies during the summer of 2022. stole at least $800,000 from at least five victims between August 2022 and March 2023. 2022 that an intrusion had exposed a “limited number” of Twilio customer accounts through a sophisticated social engineering attack designed to steal employee credentials.

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

McAfee Enterprise and FireEye recently released its 2022 Threat Predictions. In this blog, we take a deeper dive into a Game of Thrones power struggle among Ransomware-as-a-Service bad actors in 2022. Prediction: Self-reliant cybercrime groups will shift the balance of power within the RaaS eco-kingdom. .

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Security Affairs

JUNE 12, 2022

Ransomware gangs are actively exploiting CVE-2022-26134 remote code execution (RCE) flaw in Atlassian Confluence Server and Data Center. Multiple ransomware groups are actively exploiting the recently disclosed remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-26134 , affecting Atlassian Confluence Server and Data Center.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

On June 7, 2022, seizure orders allowed to seize four domains used by the operators of the SSNDOB Marketplace ( ssndob.ws , ssndob.vip , ssndob.club , and blackjob.biz ), shutting down the website’s operation. Security Affairs is one of the finalists for the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 18, 2023

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McAfee

OCTOBER 26, 2021

What cyber security threats should enterprises look out for in 2022? Skilled engineers and security architects from McAfee Enterprise and FireEye offer a preview of how the threatscape might look in 2022 and how these new or evolving threats could potentially impact the security of enterprises, countries, and civilians. By John Fokker.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2023

Nominate here: [link] Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, PaperCut ) The post Russian cybercrime group likely behind ongoing exploitation of PaperCut flaws appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2022

PrivacyAffairs released the Dark Web Index 2022, the document provides the prices for illegal services/products available in the black marketplaces. The document updates the information provided in the Dark Web Index 2022 report. The document updates the information provided in the Dark Web Index 2022 report. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2022

Palo Alto Networks addressed a high-severity OpenSSL infinite loop vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-0778 , that affects some of its firewall, VPN, and XDR products. According to Palo Alto Networks, the CVE-2022-0778 vulnerability can be exploited by remote attackers to trigger a denial of service condition and crash vulnerable devices.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

China-Linked Cybercrime Group Attacks Asian Certificate Authority, Breaches Government Agencies. Tue, 11/15/2022 - 15:14. The attacks revealed today used specific backdoors Symantec had previously attributed to Billbug in earlier blogs. brooke.crothers. Billbug is longstanding threat. Machine identity is essential for security.

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McAfee

OCTOBER 31, 2021

McAfee Enterprise and FireEye recently released its 2022 Threat Predictions. In this blog, we take a deeper dive into the continuingly aggressive role Nation States will play in 2022. Unfortunately, cybercrime has nonrepudiation and threat actors can deny all knowledge and get away with it. By Raj Samani. Prevention.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 24, 2023

First advertised in the cybercrime underground in 2014, RSOCKS was the web-based storefront for hacked computers that were sold as “proxies” to cybercriminals looking for ways to route their Web traffic through someone else’s device. Kloster’s blog enthused. “We A copy of the passport for Denis Emelyantsev, a.k.a.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 22, 2023

Cybersecurity activity around business email compromise (BEC) spiked between April 2022 and April 2023, with over 150,000 daily attempts, on average, detected by the Microsoft Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU). Successful BEC attacks cost organizations hundreds of millions of dollars annually.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2022

US Critical Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds critical CVE-2022-1388 flaw in F5 BIG-IP products to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added critical CVE-2022-1388 flaw in F5 BIG-IP products to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

A native of Omsk, Russia, Kloster came into focus after KrebsOnSecurity followed clues from the RSOCKS botnet master’s identity on the cybercrime forums to Kloster’s personal blog , which featured musings on the challenges of running a company that sells “security and anonymity services to customers around the world.”

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BH Consulting

AUGUST 9, 2022

Microsoft’s extensive blog has more details. UCD is already known for its work in digital forensics and cybercrime investigation. It’s now accepting applications to start in September 2022. Europol has launched a new podcast, focusing on cybercrime and financial crime. Have you signed up to our monthly newsletter?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2022

The illegal dark web marketplace RaidForums has been shut down and its infrastructure seized as a result of the international law enforcement Operation TOURNIQUET coordinated by Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre. Europol will continue working with its international partners to make cybercrime harder – and riskier –to commit.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This is our latest installment, focusing on activities that we observed during Q3 2022. We can confirm a Maui ransomware incident in 2022, but we would expand their “first seen” date from the reported May 2021 to April 15, 2021, and the geolocation of the target to Japan and India. The most remarkable findings.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In a 2,200-page report, Finnish authorities laid out how they connected the extortion spree to Kivimäki, a notorious hacker who was convicted in 2015 of perpetrating tens of thousands of cybercrimes, including data breaches, payment fraud, operating a botnet and calling in bomb threats.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2022

Mandiant is investigating the claims of the ransomware gang, the cybercrime group declared to have stolen 356841 files from the company and plans to leak them online. The gang plans to release the stolen files on 06 June, 2022 at 22:35:00. ’ At this time, the domain mandiantyellowpress[.]com ransomware to evade sanctions.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2023

EvilExtractor is a new “all-in-one” info stealer for Windows that is being advertised for sale on dark web cybercrime forums. FortiGuard Labs observed this malware in a phishing email campaign on 30 March, which we traced back to the samples included in this blog.” ” reads the report published by Fortinet.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The threat actors behind a massive AdSense fraud campaign infected 10,890 WordPress sites since September 2022. In November 2022, researchers from security firm Sucuri reported to have tracked a surge in WordPress malware redirecting website visitors to fake Q&A sites via ois[.]is. Website backdoors to maintain unauthorized access.

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Digital Shadows

JANUARY 18, 2023

Ransomware activity stayed at steady levels throughout 2022’s fourth quarter (Q4 2022). One major development was the use of ransomware in hacktivism’s resurgence during 2022. This blog focuses on ransomware activity in Q4 2022, based on primary and secondary source reporting. increase from Q3 2022.

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Digital Shadows

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Note: This blog is part of a series of articles related to the use of Structured Analytic Techniques in the. The post Cone of Plausibility: Forecasting Ransomware Scenarios in 2022 first appeared on Digital Shadows.

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Heimadal Security

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The FBI and CISA revealed in a new joint security advisory that the Cuba ransomware gang raked in over $60 million in ransoms as of August 2022 after breaching more than 100 victims worldwide. This is a follow-up to another advisory issued one year ago, which warned that the cybercrime group compromised dozens of organizations […].

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2022

The Nigeria Police Force has arrested the suspected leader of the SilverTerrier cybercrime group as a result of an international operation. The Nigeria Police Force has arrested the suspected leader of the SilverTerrier cybercrime gang (aka TMT ) after a year-long investigation codenamed “Operation Delilah.”

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Heimadal Security

OCTOBER 21, 2022

In September 2022 it was detected a new phishing campaign aimed at people’s Social Security Numbers (SSNs). SSNs are a universal identifier and can be used to initiate a multitude of cybercrimes in the U.S. […]. SSNs are a universal identifier and can be used to initiate a multitude of cybercrimes in the U.S. […].

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SiteLock

DECEMBER 7, 2021

It’s no secret that cybersecurity breaches can yield staggering cybercrime costs for your business. Given these astounding statistics, it’s plain to see that businesses must prepare to mitigate cyber breaches in 2022. Prepare For Cyber Breaches In 2022 With SiteLock. million, a 10% increase year over year.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The Brute Ratel post-exploitation toolkit has been cracked and now is available in the underground hacking and cybercrime communities. Threat actors have cracked the Brute Ratel C4 (BRC4) post-exploitation toolkit and leaked it for free in the cybercrime underground. On 13 September 2022, an archive file called “bruteratel_1.2.2.Scandinavian_Defense.tar.gz”

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2022

The expert discovered a post where a researcher were sharing a fake Proof of Concept (POC) exploit code for an RPC Runtime Library Remote Code Execution flaw ( CVE-2022-26809 CVSS 9.8). You will get a backdoor [link] — Tuan Anh Nguyen (@haxor31337) May 19, 2022. The malware, disguised as a fake PoC code, was available on GitHub.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2023

. “Noncompliant virtual currency exchanges, which have a lax anti-money laundering program or collect minimal Know Your Customer information or none at all, serve as important hubs in the cybercrime ecosystem and are operating in violation of Title 18 United States Code, Sections 1960 and 1956.”

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Heimadal Security

JULY 11, 2023

The number of cases of online extortion reported to the police rose by almost 40% in 2022 compared to the previous year, according to Reynolds Porter Chamberlain, an international commercial law firm from the UK.

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