Zero Day

JUNE 6, 2025

The data in question was posted on a Russian cybercrime forum on May 15 and then uploaded again on June 3, apparently garnering attention from other cybercriminals and potential buyers. But in this age of cybercrime, these numbers have become vulnerable. million existing AT&T subscribers and 65.4 million former account holders.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 25, 2021

I've decided to make my Cybercrime Forum Data Set for 2019 and 2021 exclusively available online for free in order for me to speed the dissemination process and to possibly empower security researchers and vendors with the necessary information to help them stay on the top of their game in terms of current and emerging cyber threats including U.S

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 18, 2023

Dear blog readers, Did you already grab a copy of my 2019-2023 " Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge " Ebook which is 1.7GB compilation for free? Did you also grab a copy of my 230 pages cyber threat actors compilation from here ? Stay tuned!

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Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2021

The cyber threat landscape change continuously, recently two new ransomware-as-service (RaaS) operations named BlackMatter and Haron made the headlines. The cybercrime group shut down its operations and provided the decryption keys to BleepingComputer website. “Haron ransomware was first discovered in July 2021.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Reporting on the exposure of some 26 million stolen credit cards leaked from a top underground cybercrime store highlighted some persistent and hard truths. Also, a great deal of cybercrime seems to be perpetrated by a relatively small number of people. Between 2016 and 2019, cards stolen from U.S.-based Cards stolen from U.S.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 14, 2022

While actual human error accounts for 6 percent of breaches this year—down from a high of 11 percent in 2019— the fallibility of employees should not be discounted in areas such as misconfigured cloud storage. These include social attacks, error and misuse, phishing, and pretexting.

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Hot for Security

APRIL 5, 2021

But regular consumers are equally affected by cybercrime, directly or indirectly. Bitdefender this week has published its annual Consumer Threat Landscape Report for 2020 underscoring some of the most prevalent cyber threats targeting regular users today. Cybersecurity can often seem like a topic for the business sector.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 22, 2024

As cyber threats become more sophisticated, educational institutions are compelled to provide their students with the skills necessary to navigate and mitigate these risks effectively. One of the most pressing reasons for advanced cybersecurity training is the sheer scale and global nature of cyber threats.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2020

were arrested in December 2019 in two different regions in Indonesia — Special Region of Yogyakarta and Special Capital Region of Jakarta — as part of the joint operation «Night Fury» carried out by Indonesian Cyber Police and INTERPOL with the help of Group-IB’s Cyber Investigations team. INTERPOL’s Director of Cybercrime.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Criminals tweaked existing forms of cybercrime to fit the pandemic narrative, abused the uncertainty of the situation and the public’s need for reliable information. As Europol notes “The opportunistic behavior of criminals during the pandemic, however, should not overshadow the overall threat landscape.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2021

He has been in custody since 2019, when he was arrested in California. Koshkin was arrested in California in September 2019 , while Tsurkan was arrested in April 2017. For years, Koshkin and his co-conspirators worked to evade our most basic cyber defenses in order to spread malware on a truly global scale. “For

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2025

infrastructure International Press Newsletter Cybercrime Pixel-Perfect Trap: The Surge of SVG-Borne Phishing Attacks Threat actors misuse Node.js infrastructure International Press Newsletter Cybercrime Pixel-Perfect Trap: The Surge of SVG-Borne Phishing Attacks Threat actors misuse Node.js

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

As we move towards the end of 2022, now is the time to take a look back at the major trends from the last eleven months and identify what might happen from a cyber threat perspective in 2023. A key for analysts is to remain flexible and not compartmentalize cyber threats.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2020

Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company, has found out that phishing kits are the new bestsellers of the underground market, with the number of phishing kit ads on underground forums and their sellers having doubled in 2019 compared to the previous year. million phishing pages detected contained a phishing kit. Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 13, 2021

In 2019, we published an article about deepfakes and the technology behind them. You may never have heard the terms together before, but they’ll certainly play a large role in cybercrimes of the future. This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Is that a real thing? How are criminals leveraging this technology?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2020

The operation was launched in June 2019, the experts first identified the compromised devices then alerted victims to install security patches that lock out the malicious code. Let me close by highlighting the importance of collaboration between the authorities and the private security firms in the fight against emerging cyber threats.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The man is currently being held in the Netherlands, he was charged for his alleged role the international cybercrime operation known as Raccoon Infostealer. The Raccoon stealer was first spotted in April 2019, it was designed to steal victims’ credit card data, email credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, and other sensitive data.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The cyber security talent crunch has been a growing issue for many years now. According to the 2019/2020 Official Annual Cyber Security Jobs Report sponsored by the Herjavec Group, the number of open cyber security positions has grown 350 percent from 2013 to 2021. million unfilled cyber security jobs globally by 2021.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In fact, the World Economic Forum (WEF) projects that by 2021: Global cybercrime costs could total approximately $6 trillion in the US. If cybercrime were a country, it would have the third largest economy in the world. Clearly, cybercrime is big business, and it operates like one. How big is the impact of cybercrime?

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

Ransomware is undoubtedly one of the most unnerving phenomena in the cyber threat landscape. In November 2019, the criminals behind a ransomware species called Maze started a new trend that is currently gaining momentum on the dark web. Forward outlook Ransomware is a dynamic and increasingly hybrid segment of cybercrime.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 11, 2022

CISA provides a list of these vulnerabilities known to be exploited by threat actors: CVE-2018-13379 FortiGate VPNs. CVE-2019-1653 Cisco router. CVE-2019-2725 Oracle WebLogic Server. CVE-2019-7609 Kibana. CVE-2019-9670 Zimbra software. CVE-2019-10149 Exim Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. CVE-2019-19781 Citrix.

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Herjavec Group

OCTOBER 27, 2020

According to Cybersecurity Ventures – cybercrime will cost the world $6 trillion annually by 2021 ! Cyber Primer for the C-Suite. These 10 data points illustrate the cyber threats faced by governments, businesses, employees, consumers, and students globally.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The global pandemic and the increase of remote workers has led to a surge in online video conferencing using tools such as Zoom and Google Meet - Zoom alone has tripled its user base since 2019. Hackers may also access webcams to perform other types of cybercrime, such as identity theft, fraud, or extortion. Follow us - stay ahead.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

This time, our forecasts came true exactly 50%: as expected, in Q4 2020 we observed indicators comparable to those for the same period in 2019, and even slightly higher. Comparative number of DDoS attacks, Q3/Q4 2020 and Q4 2019; data for Q4 2019 is taken as 100% ( download ). Share of smart attacks, 2019 and 2020 ( download ).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

According to the Cisco/Cybersecurity Ventures Cybersecurity Almanac , the healthcare organizations suffered 2-3 more cyberattacks in 2019 than the average amount for the other industries. ” states the post published by Cyble.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

“It is also a result of more than a decade of experience that FBI agents, Justice Department prosecutors, and our international partners have built dismantling cyber threats. With our partners, we will use every available tool to disrupt, deter, and punish cyber criminals.”. In June 2022, its operators released LockBit 3.0

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IT Security Guru

MARCH 17, 2023

Yet, cybercrime doesn’t always look like a scene from a Hollywood movie. Sometimes, cyber threats are closer to home, making them all the more surprising (and frustrating) for many organizations. They’re called insider threats, and you need to pay special attention to ensure you – and your data – don’t fall victim.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

She said CopperStealer, which Proofpoint fully describes in a blog post , exhibits many of the same targeting and delivery methods as SilentFade, a Chinese-sourced malware family first reported by Facebook in 2019. Examples include the 2019 Hong Kong protests, which described the events as “riots funded by the CIA.”.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2022

The ransomware operation has been active since late December 2019, this is the second time that the FBI first shares IoC related to RagnarLocker operation, the FBI first became aware of this threat in April 2020. Secure your back-ups and ensure data is not accessible for modification or deletion from the system where the data resides.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 14, 2023

The Lazarus Group, a North Korean cybercriminal organization known for its cyber espionage and financially motivated attacks, has been observed shifting targets and refining techniques in their campaign dubbed "DeathNote," according to a recent report by cybersecurity firm Kaspersky.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Cyber security measures ensure this data is safeguarded against breaches, fraud, hacking, and other forms of cybercrime. Cyber security in banking is about securing the entire digital infrastructure of a bank — from online banking systems to internal databases — against unauthorized access, data leaks, and malicious attacks.

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IT Security Guru

JULY 19, 2021

Although cybercrime as a whole has seen a rise during the pandemic, arguably ransomware has been one of the more successful and lucrative attack types. Our own research report, the State of Encrypted Attacks Report 2020 , found that there had been a 500 per cent rise in ransomware compared to 2019.

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

While criminals collaborating in the world of cybercrime isn’t a novel concept , a RaaS group’s hierarchy is more rigid compared to other forms of cybercrime, due to the power imbalance between the group’s developers/admins and affiliates. Jabber group for unhappy threat actors. Hello, friends!

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Ransomware is one of the fastest-growing and most destructive cyber threats today. A recent Positive Technologies report found that 69% of all malware attacks now involve ransomware, and with the sums involved, it’s easy to see why malicious actors would eschew less lucrative cyber attack methods.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The incident, which unfolded on November 8, 2023, has sent ripples through the global financial community, emphasizing the escalating cyber threats faced by even the most robust institutions. The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), recognized as the world's largest commercial bank, has fallen victim to a ransomware attack.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

This kind of cost-effective program can help your employees to understand cyber threats. Considering the many ways cybercriminals target employees and the costs of cybercrime to employers, it’s a wise investment. The FBI says BEC caused half of all US cybercrime losses in 2019 , at a total of $1.77

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 2, 2025

Read more International Sanctions Target Russian Cybercrime Network The United States, United Kingdom, and Australia have jointly imposed sanctions on Russian web-hosting provider Zservers and two Russian nationals for supporting the ransomware group LockBit.

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