In this blog, the global experts across our Rapid7 Labs and Managed Services teams share real-time vulnerability insights and threat intelligence so that our customers can anticipate and prevent breaches, pinpoint critical threats, and confidently take command of their attack surface.
The Rapid7 Labs team has rounded up statistics and trends that caught their eye throughout the year, spanning ransomware, initial access vectors, common malware strains, notable CVE exploitation, and more.
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- Operation HAECHI IV: USD 300 million seized and 3,500 suspects arrested in international financial crime operation
December 19, 2023
LYON, FRANCE – A transcontinental police operation against online financial crime has concluded with almost 3,500 arrests and seizures of USD 300 million (approx. EUR 273 million) worth of assets across 34 countries. The six-month Operation HAECHI IV (July-December 2023) targeted seven types of cyber-enabled scams: voice phishing, romance scams, online sextortion, investment fraud, money laundering ...
- Mr. Cooper leaks personal data of 14 million loan and mortgage customers
December 19, 2023
A major mortgage and loan company based in Dallas, working under the name Mr. Cooper Group Inc. has released more information on a recent breach. In a data breach notification, the company didn’t say what type of cyberattack caused the compromise of customer data, calling it a rather non-descriptive “External system breach (hacking).” For those unfamiliar ...
- Europol publishes IOCTA spotlight report on online fraud schemes
December 19, 2023
Europol’s spotlight report on online fraud highlights that online fraud schemes represent a major crime threat in the EU and beyond as online fraudsters generate multiple billions in illicit profits every year to the detriment of individuals, companies and public institutions. Fraud schemes are perpetrated with the intention of defrauding victims of their assets using false ...
- Xfinity discloses a data breach but doesn’t say how many users are affected
December 18, 2023
Xfinity is notifying customers of a “data security incident” it says resulted in the theft of customer information, including usernames, passwords, contact information, and more. In a notice on Monday, Xfinity says “there was unauthorized access” to its systems from October 16th to October 19th, 2023. Xfinity traces the breach to a security vulnerability disclosed by ...
- Coverage Advisory for CVE-2023-50164: Apache Struts Path Traversal and File Upload Vulnerability
December 18, 2023
CVE-2023-50164 is a path traversal flaw that allows a remote attacker to upload malicious files to vulnerable servers. After successful exploitation, an attacker can achieve Remote Code Execution (RCE) on the target server. An attacker exploiting such a vulnerability can access, upload, or modify important files, steal sensitive information, disrupt critical services, or move laterally on ...
- #StopRansomware: Play Ransomware
December 18, 2023
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD’s ACSC) are releasing this joint CSA to disseminate the Play ransomware group’s IOCs and TTPs identified through FBI investigations as recently as October 2023. Since June 2022, the Play (also known as Playcrypt) ransomware group ...