Krebs on Security

JANUARY 7, 2025

” Perm is the current administrator of Star Fraud , one of the more consequential cybercrime communities on Telegram and one that has emerged as a foundry of innovation in voice phishing attacks. One “autodoxer” service advertised on Telegram that promotes a range of voice phishing tools and services. “ Annie.”

Phishing

SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Last year saw a 110% rise in cybercrime in the lead up to Valentine's Day. And 2025 will be no different, as increasingly sophisticated online hackers seek to take advantage of Valentine's themed email traffic, social media advertisements, or marketing campaigns, and exploit heightened emotions and a desire to connect.

Scams

SecureWorld News

MARCH 20, 2025

Phishing plays straight out of the cybercrime playbook "March Madness brings heightened cybersecurity risks this year, especially with the expansion of sports gambling beyond traditional office pools creating new attack vectors for credential harvesting and financial fraud," warns J. Awareness and vigilance.

Scams

SecureList

DECEMBER 16, 2024

In 2024, our expert observations indicate that commercial advertising for these cryptors have indeed gained momentum. Not every data breach advertisement on the dark web is the result of a genuinely serious incident. We at Kaspersky also actively contributed to law enforcement efforts to combat cybercrime.

Marketing

Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

A paradigm shift in technology is hurtling towards us, and it could change everything we know about cybersecurity. Remember that just last year a widespread IT outage grounded flights globally, cementing the relationship between companies, cybersecurity, and everyday people. Uhh, again, that is. Heres what we might expect.

Artificial Intelligence

Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2025

. “On February 3, 2025, Lee Enterprises, Inc. (“Lee” or the “Company”) experienced a systems outage caused by a cybersecurity attack. Upon discovery, Lee activated its incident response team, comprised of internal personnel and external cybersecurity experts retained to assist in addressing the incident.”

Ransomware

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. Privacy Policy | | Cookie Settings | Advertise | Terms of Use

Password Management

Malwarebytes

JULY 8, 2025

Since then, companies have openly advertised negotiation services, based on a willingness for cyber insurance companies to reimburse victims as part of their policy coverage. Ransomware demands have also ballooned as this form of cybercrime continues to gain traction. Some have vowed not to pay ransoms.

Ransomware

Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2025

This year, Spring Break vacationers are packing more than their flip-flops, bucket hats, and sunglassestheyre also packing a few cybersecurity anxieties for the trip. But as more apps help with traveling needs, more opportunities arise for those apps to be falsely emulated and maliciously advertised online.

Scams

eSecurity Planet

MAY 11, 2025

Researchers from cybersecurity firm Morphisec have uncovered the scheme’s full extent. Instead of relying on traditional phishing or cracked software sites, they build convincing AI-themed platforms often advertised via legitimate-looking Facebook groups and viral social media campaigns, said Shmuel Uzan, a researcher at Morphisec.

Malware

Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

With the right cybersecurity practices, everyday Mac users can stay safe from these emerging threats. The developers ran a holiday promotion seriously and even released an AMOS update that would better obfuscate the info stealer from being detected by cybersecurity software.

Malware

Malwarebytes

MARCH 20, 2025

This blog post was co-authored with Elie Berreby, Senior SEO Strategist Criminals are highly interested in online marketing and advertising tools that they can leverage as part of their ongoing malware campaigns. Malicious Semrush domains adsense-word[.]com help sem-russhh[.]com com sem-rushhh[.]com com sem-rushh[.]com com semrush[.]click

Scams

Penetration Testing

JUNE 9, 2025

These incidents are part of a broader trend where cybersecurity vendors themselves are becoming targets due to their deep visibility into client environments and defensive capabilities. Support independent cybersecurity journalism. If this article helped you, please share it with others who might benefit. Every contribution matters.

Penetration Testing

Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 12, 2024

These sources can range from publicly available data to data sets stolen in cybercrimes. Background checks are required for specific jobs, as well as some insurance policies, loans, and other financial transactions, but some data brokers just deal in marketing and advertising related information.

Data breaches

Zero Day

JUNE 27, 2025

  Also: How AI will transform cybersecurity in 2025 - and supercharge cybercrime Red team testing: Finally, proactively test your defenses by simulating attacks with tools like GoldenEye , hping3 , and HULK to identify and address vulnerabilities before your website or company network access is compromised. All rights reserved.

DDOS

We Live Security

AUGUST 8, 2025

In this context, adware, which displays unwanted advertisements, might seem pretty innocuous. This means that the fraudulent ad impressions generated by the “evil” version are judged by advertisers to be legitimate. Or even ransomware designed to lock you out of your device completely until a ransom is paid.

Adware

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Judische would repeat that claim in Star Chat on May 13 — the day before Santander publicly disclosed a data breach — and would periodically blurt out the names of other Snowflake victims before their data even went up for sale on the cybercrime forums. prosecutors and federal law enforcement agencies. “Negotiate a deal in Telegram.”

Cybercrime

Malwarebytes

MAY 8, 2025

In that same report, the FBI advises consumers to check the URL to make sure the site is authentic before clicking on an advertisement. We don’t just report on threats – we help safeguard your entire digital identity Cybersecurity risks should never spread beyond a headline. Indicators of Compromise Redirect deel[.]za[.]com

Phishing

Zero Day

JUNE 22, 2025

Indeed, we follow strict guidelines that ensure our editorial content is never influenced by advertisers. But Bob Diachenko, a Cybernews contributor, cybersecurity researcher, and owner of SecurityDiscovery.com told Cybernews that there was no centralized data breach at any of those companies. Take the latest report of a major breach.

Passwords

Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The proliferation of cybercrime guides on forums and a 7% rise in insider threat content, driven by significant financial incentives, highlight the growing complexity of cybersecurity challenges. Organizations with limited cybersecurity budgets or outdated legacy and end-of-life systems are prime targets for threat actors.

Cyber Attacks

BH Consulting

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Curated advice, guidance, learning and trends in cybersecurity and privacy, as chosen by our consultants. At the end of January, police forces from eight countries took down two of the worlds largest cybercrime forums. At the end of January, police forces from eight countries took down two of the worlds largest cybercrime forums.

Cyber Insurance

Zero Day

JUNE 20, 2025

Indeed, we follow strict guidelines that ensure our editorial content is never influenced by advertisers. But Bob Diachenko, a Cybernews contributor, cybersecurity researcher, and owner of SecurityDiscovery.com told Cybernews that there was no centralized data breach at any of those companies. Take the latest report of a major breach.

Passwords

Krebs on Security

MAY 28, 2020

The United Kingdom’s anti-cybercrime agency is running online ads aimed at young people who search the Web for services that enable computer crimes, specifically trojan horse programs and DDoS-for-hire services. law enforcement agents in connection with various cybercrime investigations. FLATTENING THE CURVE.

Cybercrime

Krebs on Security

APRIL 8, 2019

Almost exactly one year ago, KrebsOnSecurity reported that a mere two hours of searching revealed more than 100 Facebook groups with some 300,000 members openly advertising services to support all types of cybercrime, including spam, credit card fraud and identity theft. Facebook responded by deleting those groups.

Cybercrime

Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2024

The cybercrime group FIN7 is advertising a security evasion tool in multiple underground forums, cybersecurity company SentinelOne warns. SentinelOne researchers warn that the financially motivated group FIN7 is using multiple pseudonyms to advertise a security evasion tool in several criminal underground forums.

Advertising

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Cybersecurity researchers spotted a new malware-as-a-service (MaaS) called BunnyLoader that’s appeared in the threat landscape. Zscaler ThreatLabz researchers discovered a new malware-as-a-service (MaaS) that is called BunnyLoader, which has been advertised for sale in multiple cybercrime forums since September 4, 2023.

Advertising

Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2020

I’m preparing the slides for my next speech and I decided to create this post while searching for interesting cybercrime statistics in 2020. Cybercrime will cost as much as $6 trillion annually by 2021. The global expense for organizations to protect their systems from cybercrime attacks will continue to grow.

Cybercrime

The Hacker News

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Cybersecurity experts have discovered yet another malware-as-a-service (MaaS) threat called BunnyLoader that's being advertised for sale on the cybercrime underground.

Cybercrime

Krebs on Security

JUNE 22, 2022

.” The DOJ’s statement doesn’t mention that RSOCKS has been in operation since 2014, when access to the web store for the botnet was first advertised on multiple Russian-language cybercrime forums. Even today, the RUSdot Mailer is advertised for sale at the top of the RUSdot community forum.

Advertising

Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2024

The cybercrime group FIN7 is advertising a security evasion tool in multiple underground forums, cybersecurity company SentinelOne warns. SentinelOne researchers warn that the financially motivated group FIN7 is using multiple pseudonyms to advertise a security evasion tool in several criminal underground forums.

Advertising

Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2022

The FBI warns organizations in the higher education sector of credentials sold on cybercrime forums that can allow threat actors to access their networks. “The FBI is informing academic partners of identified US college and university credentials advertised for sale on online criminal marketplaces and publically accessible forums.

Cybercrime

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2020

In almost every category — from epic breaches and ransomware to cybercrime justice and increasingly aggressive phishing and social engineering scams — 2020 was a year that truly went to eleven. Thinking of a Career in Cybersecurity? But it was hardly a dull one for computer security news junkies.

Scams

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 27, 2021

and Bulgarian authorities this week seized the darkweb site used by the NetWalker ransomware cybercrime group to publish data stolen from its victims. The following advertisement (translated into English by cybersecurity firm Intel 471 ) was posted by the NetWalker affiliate program manager last year to a top cybercrime forum.

Ransomware

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The creation of a dedicated emergency number for cybersecurity could provide an effective solution to this rapidly growing challenge The growing threat of cybercrime is calling for new and innovative defense strategies. What benefits A dedicated cybersecurity emergency number would have several benefits.

Cybersecurity

Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 8, 2020

But judging from the proliferation of help-wanted ads for offensive pentesters in the cybercrime underground, today’s attackers have exactly zero trouble gaining that initial intrusion: The real challenge seems to be hiring enough people to help everyone profit from the access already gained.

Cybercrime

SecureWorld News

JANUARY 30, 2025

In a coordinated international effort, law enforcement agencies from the United States, Europe, and Australia have dismantled Cracked and Nulled, two of the world's largest cybercrime marketplaces. The forum had more than 4 million users and listed more than 28 million posts advertising illicit services. He is now facing U.S.

Cybercrime

Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2023

Several domain names tied to Genesis Market , a bustling cybercrime store that sold access to passwords and other data stolen from millions of computers infected with malicious software, were seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) today. ” a cybercrime forum ad for Genesis enthused.

Marketing