At the request of the United States, the Federal Security Service (FSB) has recently arrested all the hackers behind the REvil ransomware group and claimed to have completely shut down all operations of the group. The closure of the REvil ransomware gang comes after a Ukrainian citizen was arrested in Poland last November for using […]
New research into the infrastructure behind an emerging DDoS botnet named Abcbot has uncovered “clear” links with a cryptocurrency-mining botnet attack that came to light in December 2020. Attacks involving Abcbot, first disclosed by Qihoo 360’s Netlab security team in November 2021, are triggered via a malicious shell script that targets insecure cloud instances operated […]
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Authorities in India arrested three individuals accused of participating in a fraudulent operation in order to cheat on the presentation of an exam to obtain certifications from Cisco, E-Council and CompTIA. Those arrested include an engineer who used to work for Delhi. According to the report, online certifications are being offered by a large number […]
As seen by Hackread.com, the Cl0p ransomware gang has leaked partial SPO data including names, email addresses, passport scans, and more. Swire Pacific Offshore (SPO) has confirmed becoming a victim of a targeted cyberattack by the Cl0p ransomware gang. The company claims that personal information and classified proprietary commercial information might be exposed. For your […]
An operation coordinated by Interpol led to the arrest of 1,000 individuals allegedly involved in multiple cybercriminal operations, including banking fraud, romance scams, and money laundering and illegal betting platforms. The so-called Operation HAEICHI-II took place between June and September of this year and had the collaboration of the authorities of more than 20 countries […]
BlackMatter ransomware gang, which is believed to be a rebrand of DarkSide, has decided to end the project, giving in to the pressures of the local law enforcement authorities. In 2021, we have seen many mainstream ransomware groups go underground and new groups emerging in their place. First, it was the DarkSide ransomware, the disappearance […]
The total number of arrests made concerning Sodinokibi/REvil and GandCrab ransomware is now seven. Europol launched a multi-agency operation to catch REvil ransomware operators (Ransomware-Evil) based on their findings of an old ransomware strain, GrandCrab, which authorities believe is the predecessor of REvil. Dubbed Operation GoldDust; around seventeen countries took part in the operation. These […]
The operators of TrickBot trojan are collaborating with the Shathak threat group to distribute their wares, ultimately leading to the deployment of Conti ransomware on infected machines. “The implementation of TrickBot has evolved over the years, with recent versions of TrickBot implementing malware-loading capabilities,” Cybereason security analysts Aleksandar Milenkoski and Eli Salem said in a […]
A police operation in Spain led to the arrest of 45 individuals accused of participating in a fraudulent scheme that would have defrauded more than 200 people. The fraud operators would have acted from an African country through individuals acting as mules, many of them even against their will and under threat of death. This […]
The U.S. Department of State announced that it is offering a reward of up to $10 million USD to anyone who provides information that leads to the identification and arrest of the operators of the DarkSide ransomware and any possible variants derived from this malware. Authorities are also offering a $5 million USD reward for […]
The law enforcement authorities of the Ukrainian have recently arrested a hacker on Monday who is accountable for the formulation and administration of a “powerful botnet” that has over 100,000 controlled devices. All these devices were utilized to convey out dispersed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, as well as spam attacks on account of paid customers. Here […]
The White House Dark Web Marketplace says “We are retiring!” The White House Dark Web marketplace will cease to exist as the website administrator has announced to shut down its operations and that they are retiring. The admin of the White House market “mr white” explained that the platform would halt its operations as he […]
Ukrainian law enforcement authorities on Monday disclosed the arrest of a hacker responsible for the creation and management of a “powerful botnet” consisting of over 100,000 enslaved devices that was used to carry out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and spam attacks on behalf of paid customers. The unnamed individual, from the Ivano-Frankivsk region of the country, […]
ShinyHunters, a notorious cybercriminal underground group that’s been on a data breach spree since last year, has been observed searching companies’ GitHub repository source code for vulnerabilities that can be abused to stage larger scale attacks, an analysis of the hackers’ modus operandi has revealed. “Primarily operating on Raid Forums, the collective’s moniker and motivation […]
Europol announced that it will initiate legal proceedings against 23 people accused of participating in a business email engagement (BEC) operation that would have resulted in losses of up to $1.2 million USD. The charges against the suspects were filed after multiple raids in Ireland, Romania and the Netherlands. This campaign began with the sending […]
After multiple reports and rumors, Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) confirmed a cyberattack that affected its entire it infrastructure. As some will recall, Transnet Group is the operator of state ports in South Africa, operating as a state monopoly. The company is trying to minimize the incident and downplay it, describing it as a simple outage […]
WildPressure has been attacking Windows for a long time, that’s why this is not the first time when Windows and macOS operating systems are being attacked by such malicious trojan. However, in 2019 Kaspersky had detected a malicious trojan named “Milum” that has been used by the threat actors of WildPressure. Since then Kaspersky has […]
Operation Lyrebird, deployed by the international police agency Interpol in collaboration with infosec firm Group-IB, led to the arrest of one of the most wanted threat actors in the world of cybercrime, linked to dozens of high-profile attacks, affecting telecommunications companies, financial institutions and even some transnational firms. The accused, originally from Morocco, was arrested […]
Cybersecurity experts report that a proof of concept (PoC) exploit and technical details related to an unpatched vulnerability in Windows systems have been leaked online by accident. The vulnerability in question, identified as PrintNightmare, affects the Windows Print Spooler and its exploitation would allow threat actors to take control of a Windows domain server and […]
Cybersecurity specialists reported the finding of a critical vulnerability in Interoperability Solution XDS, the document exchange system developed by the technology company Philips. According to the report, successful exploitation of the flaw would allow the theft of confidential information. Tracked as CVE-2021-32966, this flaw exists because the LDAP configuration over TLS in affected product allows […]