SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Having been in the field for so long, we have witnessed some major changes in the cybercrime world’s modus operandi. This report shares our insights into the Russian-speaking cybercrime world and the changes in how it operates that have happened in the past five years. Conclusion: cybersecurity and cybercrime have matured.

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Webroot

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Cybercrime surpasses $1Trillion in global costs. A recent study has put the global cost of cybercrime at over $1 trillion for 2020. This figure is up significantly from 2018, which was calculated at around $600 billion. Educational technology still lacking proper security.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

According to Group-IB’s report findings, Asia is one of the most actively attacked regions in the world, the company presented latest cybercrime trends. In 2017-2018 hackers’ interest in cryptocurrency exchanges ramped up. In 2018 the direct financial losses from these attacks amounted to almost $20 million. Attacks on Crypto.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The United Nations on Friday have approved a Russian-sponsored and China-backed resolution to create a new convention on cybercrime. The United Nations on Friday has approved a Russian-sponsored and China-backed resolution to create a new convention on cybercrime. It will only serve to stifle global efforts to combat cybercrime.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2019

Security experts at Group-IB presented at Money2020 Asia the results of an interesting analysis of hi-tech crime landscape in Asia in 2018. The number of leaked cards increased in 2018 by 56%. The total underground market value of Singaporean banks’ cards compromised in 2018 is estimated at nearly $640 000.

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SecureList

JULY 14, 2021

Spain’s Ministry of the Interior has announced the arrest of 16 individuals connected to the Grandoreiro and Melcoz (also known as Mekotio) cybercrime groups. We found the group attacking assets in Chile in 2018 and, more recently, in Mexico. Kaspersky technologies detect both families as Trojan-Banker.Win32.Grandoreiro

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2019

Bahrain, 08.04.2019 – Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks , and NGN International, a global system integrator, analyzed cybersecurity landscape in Gulf countries in 2018. According to Group-IB’s annual Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2018 report, on average, from June 2017 to August 2018, the details of 1.8

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2024

The Black Lotus Labs team at Lumen Technologies uncovered an updated version of “ TheMoon ” bot targeting end-of-life (EoL) small home/small office (SOHO) routers and IoT devices. A new variant of TheMoon malware infected thousands of outdated small office and home office (SOHO) routers and IoT devices worldwide.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Positive Technologies researchers Vladimir Kononovich and Alexey Stennikov have discovered security flaws Wincor Cineo ATMs that could be exploited to bypass Black-Box attack protections and withdraw cash. ” explained Vladimir Kononovich, Senior Specialist of ICS Security at Positive Technologies. Both issues received a CVSSv3.0

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

FIN7 cybercrime gang used weaponized Windows 11 Alpha-themed Word documents to drop malicious payloads, including a JavaScript backdoor. “ The threat actors employed a variation of a JavaScript backdoor used by the FIN7 group since at least 2018. . ” reads the analysis published by Anomali.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2022

. “South Korea’s main spy agency, the National Intelligence Service, said North Korea’s capacity to steal digital assets is considered among the best in the world because of the country’s focus on cybercrimes since U.N. economic sanctions were toughened in 2017 in response to its nuclear and missile tests.” Citing the U.S.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Among the cryptojacking-buzz, Facebook’s data breach saga, and nation-state attacks on companies like Nissan, you likely noticed a trend of high-profile cybercrime in 2018. However, after studying website attacks that plagued 2018, a new trend arises.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2024

” In July 2018, a Greek lower court agreed to extradite Vinnik to France to face charges of hacking, money laundering , extortion, and involvement in organized crime. French authorities accused Vinnik of defrauding more than 100 people in six French cities between 2016 and 2018.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Secret Service is investigating a breach at a Virginia-based government technology contractor that saw access to several of its systems put up for sale in the cybercrime underground, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. government IT contractor that does business with more than 20 federal agencies, including several branches of the military.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 3, 2019

A Pennsylvania credit union is suing financial industry technology giant Fiserv , alleging that “baffling” security vulnerabilities in the company’s software are “wreaking havoc” on its customers. based Fiserv [ NASDAQ:FISV ] is a Fortune 500 company with 24,000 employees and $5.8 billion in earnings last year.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2024

“The phishing campaign employed open redirect URLs from Google Ad technologies to distribute fake Microsoft software installers (.MSI) The victims were redirected to compromised sites hosting the exploit for the Microsoft Windows SmartScreen bypass flaw CVE-2024-21412 that led to malicious Microsoft (.MSI) MSI) installers.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Recent data from anti-phishing company PhishLabs shows that 49 percent of all phishing sites in the third quarter of 2018 bore the padlock security icon next to the phishing site domain name as displayed in a browser address bar. That’s up from 25 percent just one year ago, and from 35 percent in the second quarter of 2018.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 6, 2022

The Paris Call for Trust and Stability in Cyberspace is an initiative launched by French President Emmanuel Macron during the 2018 UNESCO’s Internet Governance Forum. And corporations have long led policymakers in the fast-moving and highly technological battleground that is cyberspace. It is the future.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

As first detailed by KrebsOnSecurity in July 2016 , Orcus is the brainchild of John “Armada” Rezvesz , a Toronto resident who until recently maintained and sold the RAT under the company name Orcus Technologies. ” “I am not your A-typical computer geek, Brian,” he wrote in a 2018 email. “I

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

The administrator announced the decision via messages posted on various cybercrime forums. Joker’s Stash is one of the most longevous carding websites, it was launched in October 2014 and is very popular in the cybercrime underground due to the freshness of its cards and their validity. Image source FlashPoint.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Those publications set off speculation about a possible secret back-channel of communications, as well as a series of lawsuits and investigations that culminated last week with the indictment of the same former federal cybercrime prosecutor who brought the data to the attention of the FBI five years ago. In 2018, U.S. Senate in 2018.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In it, we identified the trends, threats, and innovations in cybercrime that small businesses need to know about in order to keep their websites secure. The Biggest Cybersecurity Trends of 2018. Throughout 2018, per-day website attack attempts increased by just about 60%, peaking at 80 attacks and averaging at 62 attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Cybercrime will go to the next level: Cyberattackers will implement improved skills, “shift left” attacks, and shifting strategies to adjust to evolving cyberdefense. AI Use Danger As with any emerging technology, many organizations should expect errors and growing pains as teams learn the nuances of applying the technology.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 16, 2021

million that foundations allocated to peace and security causes in 2018 – the last full year of available data. In 2018, cybersecurity was the 11th most funded cause on the index, compared to 17th when it first made the list in 2015. Kristin Judge, Cybercrime Support Network. percent (or $15.2 million) of the $376.8

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 19, 2022

These days, financial cybercrimes often involve Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Since 2018, one of the Lazarus Group’s tactics has been to disguse AppleJeus malware as cryptocurrency trading platforms for both Windows and Mac.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

government taking a more active role in the battle against cybercrime, more needs to be done defensively to protect the private companies that make?up Here’s why: Total global losses from cybercrime in 2021 are estimated to top $6 trillion , with the U.S. Despite the U.S. of the critical infrastructure in our nation.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2021

The vulnerabilities listed in the advisory are: CVE-2018-13379 Fortinet CVE-2019-9670 Zimbra CVE-2019-11510 Pulse Secure CVE-2019-19781 Citrix CVE-2020-4006 VMware. Cyberspies leverages these flaws to obtain login credentials and use them to break into networks of US organizations and government agencies. In the same hours, the U.S.

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The Security Ledger

MAY 2, 2019

Related Stories Report: Bad Bots sent One in Five Web Requests in 2018 Report: IoT Still Wildly Insecure as New ‘Credential Compromise’ Threat Emerges FBI: Cybercrime Accounted for $2.7B in Losses in 2018. The post New IoT Security Regulations on Tap in U.S., appeared first on The Security Ledger.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

10, 2018, and that its ongoing investigation suggests the perpetrators had been inside the company’s networks since 2014. Marriott said the breach involved unauthorized access to a database containing guest information tied to reservations made at Starwood properties on or before Sept.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Since August, FIN11 started targeting organizations in many industries, including defense, energy, finance, healthcare, legal, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, technology, and transportation. In recent attacks, the group was observed deploying the Clop ransomware into the networks of its victims.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2019

People have a growing number of ways to use technology and rely on connected devices, but that also means the likelihood goes up for potentially unfamiliar kinds of attacks. More specifically, an April 2018 study examined the connection between consumer trust and spending. Cybercrime Is Extremely Profitable. trillion annually.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2023

Those days are behind us, however, as cybercrime is establishing itself as a business in and of itself. This effort began with the 2018 establishment of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) , a Department of Homeland Security division.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 27, 2018

This is borne out by Akamai Technologies’ Summer 2018 Internet Security/Web Attack Report. I had the chance to visit with Don Shin, A10 Networks’ Senior Product Marketing Manager, at Black Hat USA 2018. In response, many leading vendors and government officials are pushing hard for more sharing of cybercrime intelligence.

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SC Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Since the IC3 was created in 2000, it has consistently shined a light on forms of cybercrime – some new and evolving, others belligerently persistent – and has made laudable strides in stopping the fraudulent transfer of funds whenever possible. The report shows that BEC/EAC complaints have reduced from 20,373 in 2018 to 19,369 in 2020.

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Adam Levin

JULY 24, 2020

percent of 15,000 domain names probed directed users to websites associated with some form of cybercrime, including hacking, phishing, online fraud, or spamming. In 2018, security researchers discovered a perfect copy of Reddit.com, one of the five most-visited sites online, under the domain name Reddit.co (.co

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 5, 2023

The strategy document, which replaces the last such piece of work from 2018, attempts to indicate the general direction of the US approach to cybercrime and security for the next few years. The US Government has been working on the National Cybersecurity Strategy Document 2023 for some time now, and it’s finally been released.

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2024

Today’s announcement sends a clear message that the Criminal Division and its law enforcement partners are firm in their resolve to disrupt the most technologically sophisticated criminal tools and hold wrongdoers to account.” Cybercriminals should take note. ” continues DoJ.

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