- Hydra with Three Heads: BlackByte & The Future of Ransomware Subsidiary Groups
May 18, 2022
On February 13, 2022, a novel, lesser-known ransomware collective posted the alleged financial documents of the San Francisco 49ers football team on their underground site. The threat group, known as BlackByte, was widely credited with the orchestration of the attack—However, AdvIntel’s sensitive primary-source intelligence and factual data evidence (including IOCs) point to a different conclusion: ...
- Wizard Spider hackers hire cold callers to scare ransomware victims into paying up
May 18, 2022
Researchers have exposed the inner workings of Wizard Spider, a hacking group that pours its illicit proceeds back into the criminal enterprise. On Wednesday, PRODAFT published the results of an investigation into Wizard Spider, believed to either be or be associated with the Grim Spider and Lunar Spider hacking groups. According to the cybersecurity firm, Wizard Spider, ...
- The BlackByte ransomware group is striking users all over the globe
May 18, 2022
The BlackByte ransomware group uses its software for its own goals and as a ransomware-as-a-service offering to other criminals. The ransomware group and its affiliates have infected victims all over the world, from North America to Colombia, the Netherlands, China, Mexico and Vietnam. Cisco Talos has been monitoring BlackByte for several months and Talos can confirm ...
- Emotet Summary: November 2021 Through January 2022
May 17, 2022
Emotet is one of the most prolific email-distributed malware families in our current threat landscape. Although a coordinated law enforcement effort shut down this malware in January 2021, Emotet resumed operations in November 2021. Since then, Emotet has returned to its status as a prominent threat. This blog provides a background on Emotet, and it reviews ...
- FBI: North Korea’s tech workers are posing as freelance developers, helping hackers
May 17, 2022
Skilled software and mobile app developers from North Korea are posing as US-based remote workers to land contract work as developers in US and European tech and crypto firms. The warning comes in a new joint advisory from The US Department of State, the US Department of the Treasury, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) ...
- China reveals its top five sources of online fraud
May 17, 2022
China’s Ministry of Public Security has revealed the five most prevalent types of fraud perpetrated online or by phone. The e-commerce scam known as “brushing” topped the list and accounted for around a third of all internet fraud activity in China. Brushing sees victims lured into making payment for goods that may not be delivered, or ...
- Brazilian e-commerce firm Americanas reports multimillion-dollar loss following cyberattack
May 16, 2022
Brazilian e-commerce conglomerate Americanas.com reported a multimillion-dollar loss in sales in its financial results on Friday after a major cyberattack earlier this year. The company lost 923 million Brazilian reais ($183 million) in sales after two attacks that took place between February 19 and 20 and rendered its e-commerce operation unavailable. According to the company, physical ...
- HTML attachments in phishing e-mails
May 16, 2022
The use of embedded HTML documents in phishing e-mails is a standard technique employed by cybercriminals. It does away with the need to put links in the e-mail body, which antispam engines and e-mail antiviruses usually detect with ease. HTML offers more possibilities than e-mail for camouflaging phishing content. There are two main types of HTML ...
- Engineering firm Parker discloses data breach after ransomware attack
May 16, 2022
The Parker-Hannifin Corporation announced a data breach exposing employees’ personal information after the Conti ransomware gang began publishing allegedly stolen data last month. Parker is an Ohio-based corporation specializing in advanced motion and control technologies, with a strong focus in aerospace hydraulic equipment. It has a revenue of $15.6 billion and employs over 58,000 people. Parker-Hannifin says ...
- FBI: Cyber Actors Scrape Credit Card Data from US Business’ Online Checkout Page and Maintain Persistence by Injecting Malicious PHP Code
May 16, 2022
As of January 2022, unidentified cyber actors unlawfully scraped credit card data from a US business by injecting malicious PHP Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) code into the business’ online checkout page and sending the scraped data to an actor-controlled server that spoofed a legitimate card processing server. The unidentified cyber actors also established backdoor access to the ...