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Spanish law enforcement agencies on Wednesday arrested 16 individuals belonging to a criminal network in connection with operating two banking trojans as part of a social engineering campaign targeting financial institutions in Europe. The arrests were made in Ribeira (A Coruña), Madrid, Parla and Móstoles (Madrid), Seseña (Toledo), Villafranca de los barros (Badajoz), and Aranda […]
What a time to be alive. We have tons of information at the tips of our fingers, we can get in touch with that distant cousin from the other corner of the world through a single tap, we don’t have to leave our houses to shop for the things we need. Truly amazing! But all […]
Researchers linked multiple Cyber-espionage campaigns across Asia to the threat actor group PKPLUG. The group uses its PlugX malware and the number of additional payloads in the campaign. The group primarily targets Southeast Asia regions such as particularly Myanmar, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Indonesia and other parts of Asia such as Tibet, Xinjiang, and Mongolia. Based […]
A phishing campaign for grid operators uses a PDF attachment to offer spyware. A campaign aimed at a domestic grid infrastructure that spoofs a PDF attachment to deliver Adwind spyware. Adwind, a.k.a. JRAT or SockRat, is used in this campaign in a malware-as – a-service model, researchers said. It offers a full set of info-gathering […]
Have you heard of GermanWiper? No, it is not a brand of shaving razor or tissue paper in Germany. The name is very unfortunate, but it is another “ransomware” that is wreaking havoc in Germany and maybe adjacent parts of Europe. Yes, “ransomware” with double quotes, as it is similar to form with other ransomware […]
As we have repeatedly mentioned here in Hackercombat.com, hackers today are no longer interested in digital vandalism against systems and websites. Showing how good you are in cracking and hacking may give you a boost of ego, but the buck stops there, you may still end up behind bars when caught. Might as well earn […]
As the tax filing deadline is almost upon many taxpayers, the cybercriminal groups have launched their aggressive campaign to capture this potential income stream. Banking trojans that were installed in some computers, most of which remained idle for months are now springing back into the action of monitoring the computers that infected waiting for bank […]
Two Romanian hackers Bogdan Nicolescu, 36, and Radu Miclaus, 37, belonging to Bayrob group convicted for infecting 400,000 computers around the world with malware and for stealing millions of dollars. They have been convicted by a federal jury today for 21 counts related to infecting victims computer with malware to exfiltrate the credit card details […]
The Content Management System market is very competitive these days, with a partial list of all CMS softwares that exist can be seen in a Wikipedia page. Whether the web admin chooses one CMS software over another is not just a matter of taste these days, There are features and flexibility of one CMS solution […]
The United States Department of Justice has found probable cause to prosecute the alleged online scamvertising involving eight Russian nationals. The scamvertising schemes were separately named as 3ve and Methbot, which collectively earned $36 in revenue for scamming their corporate customers by promising them website ad placements on high traffic websites, but nothing legitimate were […]
Many smartphone users are surprised when they get a pop up as soon as they leave a place asking them to rate their experience visiting that location. It could be a shop or a restaurant that you went to have your lunch or dinner, or just about any place. A majority of them may just […]
Cybercriminals have devised a new way of hacking cardless ATMs using SMS-based phishing attacks. It has become a new trend with many financial institutions to offer cardless ATM transactions, thereby allowing customers to withdraw cash using only their mobile phones. This definitely makes things easier for the customer, but it does make things easy for […]
Cybercriminals have unleashed a set of DDoS attacks on some prominent gaming companies, including the creators Assassin’s Creed and Final Fantasy XIV. SC Media reports, “A set of DDoS attacks plagued a series of gaming publishers including Final Fantasy XIV’s creator Square Enix and Assassin’s Creed publisher Ubisoft, respectively on the day of the Assassin’s […]
UK internet users have been targeted by cyber criminals threatening to expose them unless they pay a ransom. Guess what, they were blackmailed by the hackers claiming proof that the particular user viewed online pornography. This “sextortion” emails came to the attention of Action Fraud, the UK’s national crime reporting centre, earlier this month. A […]
Phishing scams are among the most common cyber threats companies and organizations face today, as they can lead to huge financial losses of both money and data. The FBI has recently revealed that cybercriminals brought in at least $676 million last year through business email compromise campaigns, all of which involve tricking company employees into […]
The new General Data Protection Regulation by the European Union, which took effect on 25th May 2018, will have a negative impact on the Internet security at large. It looks like cybercriminals will have insulation, as they will be protected by the critical ICANN WHOIS information. It seems like the new law will be on their side as it […]
Hackers have stolen around $18 Million worth of BTG (Bitcoin Gold) from Bitcoin Gold Network using a new attack method called “Double Spend”. Attackers using “51% attacks” which means An attacker that controls more than 50% of the network’s computing power and they take over more than 50 % of hashpower. Double spend attack is a type of […]
Last year, we saw an increase in the trend to target cyber attacks, including ransomware attacks, at the supply chain. At the receiving end of these attacks were many business and professional services, all of which witnessed a significant increase in the number of attacks. The EMEA region seemed to be targeted the most; 20 […]
Cyber criminals all the world over today show an increasing trend to illicitly generate cryptocurrency through mining; they’d steal currencies from exchanges and wallets and would devise new ways of denying service for extortion as well as for revenge. As the value of cryptocurrencies keep growing and as the uses of cryptocurrencies become more legitimate, […]
The Webstresser cyber crime website, which was the world’s biggest marketplace for selling DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack services, has been shut down. International law enforcement has shut down the website that had sold the DDoS services which were used to target seven leading banks in the UK. The Webstresser website has been linked […]
This could come as a shocker to many internet users: cybercriminals can build a web dossier about you based on the information that they gather out of the routine web browsing that you do! California-based cyber security firm Exabeam has published a blog on this very interesting topic. The blog post, titled ‘How Criminals Can […]