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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, Read More …
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 Read More …
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 Read More …
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 Read More …
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 Read More …
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 Read More …
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 Read More …
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 Read More …
The Iran-linked Cobalt Mirage crew is running attacks against America for both financial gain and for cyber-espionage purposes, according to Secureworks’ threat intelligence team. The cybercriminal gang has been around since June 2020, and its most recent activities have been Read More …
A Ukrainian man has been sentenced to four years in a US federal prison for selling on a dark-web marketplace stolen login credentials for more than 6,700 compromised servers. Glib Oleksandr Ivanov-Tolpintsev, 28, was arrested by Polish authorities in Korczowa, Read More …