Heimadal Security

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Vice Society ransomware seemed to favor educational institutions in their attacks in 2022. The Cybercrime group targeted 33 schools in the last year, surpassing other threat actors like LockBit, BlackCat, BianLian, and Hive.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2022

LockBit ransomware gang claims to have hacked the cybersecurity firm Mandiant, which is investigating the alleged security breach. Today the LockBit ransomware gang has added the cybersecurity firm Mandiant to the list of victims published on its darkweb leak site. ’ At this time, the domain mandiantyellowpress[.]com

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Security Boulevard

JULY 20, 2023

The substantial rise in cybercrime in the past few years has generated a tremendous market for artificial intelligence (AI)-driven cybersecurity products. The global AI market totaled $428 billion in 2022 and is expected to surge to more than $2 trillion by 2030, according to Fortune Business Insights.

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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

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:? To nominate, please visit:?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2023

The company received two vulnerability reports from the cybersecurity firm Trend Micro ) for high/critical severity security issues in PaperCut MF/NG. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added it to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. Last week, the U.S.

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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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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 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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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

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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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 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. Every business is impacted. “. UTM Medium.

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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.

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BH Consulting

AUGUST 9, 2022

Curated advice, guidance, learning and trends in cybersecurity and privacy, as chosen by our consultants. Microsoft’s extensive blog has more details. Get schooled in cybersecurity while you work. UCD is already known for its work in digital forensics and cybercrime investigation.

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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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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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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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SiteLock

DECEMBER 7, 2021

2021 posed many cybersecurity challenges for companies around the world—and now, business leaders must prepare for what will likely be another year rife with new cyber breaches. It’s no secret that cybersecurity breaches can yield staggering cybercrime costs for your business. million, a 10% increase year over year.

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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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Security Affairs

MAY 31, 2022

Cyber Research Labs reported a rise in ransomware attacks in the second quarter of 2022, small states are more exposed to these attacks. They observed a total of 48 government organizations from 21 countries that were hit by 13 ransomware attacks in 2022. The experts warn of ransomware attacks against government organizations.

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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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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 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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Security Affairs

JUNE 12, 2022

Security Affairs is one of the finalists for the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS. sections “The Underdogs – Best Personal (non-commercial) Security Blog” and “The Tech Whizz – Best Technical Blog”). To nominate, please visit:?. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2022

“Through its global police network and constant monitoring of cyberspace, INTERPOL had the globally sourced intelligence needed to alert Nigeria to a serious security threat where millions could have been lost without swift police action,” said INTERPOL’s Director of Cybercrime, Craig Jones. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime).

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2022

New research from threat intelligence and cybersecurity company Cyble has identified a peak in attacks targeting virtual network computing (VNC) – a graphical desktop-sharing system that uses the Remote Frame Buffer (RFB) protocol to control another machine remotely – in critical infrastructure sectors.

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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 29, 2022

The transnational cybercrime ring was engaged in the mass acquisition and sale of fraud-related goods and services, including stolen identities, compromised credit card data, and computer malware. Security Affairs is one of the finalists for the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2022

The analysis of encryption techniques employed in the attack allowed the government experts to associate the campaign with the cybercrime group Trickbot. The alert published by the Ukraine CERT-UA includes Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) for this campaign and recommendations. To nominate, please visit:? link] .

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

Nominate here: [link] Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter ) The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 417 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2023

billion rubles. Nominate here: [link] Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter newsletter) The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 414 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition appeared first on Security Affairs.

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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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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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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2022

The researchers attribute the botnet to the cybercrime group Keksec which focuses on DDoS-based extortion. The new variant of the bot includes exploits for the following security issues: CVE-2022-22954 : Critical RCE flaw in VMware Workspace ONE Access and VMware Identity Manager. CVE-2022-22947 : RCE flaw in Spring.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2022

A Ukrainian man was sentenced in the US to 5 years in prison for his criminal activity in the cybercrime group FIN7. for high-level hacking activity in the cybercrime group FIN7 (aka Carbanak Group and the Navigator Group). Iarmak is the third member of the FIN7 cybercrime group to be sentenced in the U.S. in May 2020.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2022

The seizure of the Hydra Market is the result of an international investigation conducted by the Central Office for Combating Cybercrime (ZIT) in partnership with U.S. Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office, the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA), announced they have shut down Hydra, one of the world’s largest dark web marketplace.

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