Don't Risk Getting Caught by Kr3pto Phishing Kits

Akamai's threat research team recently published a report showing that a new phishing toolkit named Kr3pto was targeting UK banking customers. A phishing kit is an all-in-one software package that lets just about anyone create and launch phishing attacks designed to steal user data by posing as a...

Carbanak and FIN7 Attack Techniques

What happens in Carbanak and FIN7 attacks? Here are some techniques used by these financially motivated threat groups that target banks, retail stores, and other establishments...

REvil Group Claims Slew of Ransomware Attacks

The REvil ransomware threat group is on a cyberattack tear, claiming over the past two weeks to have infected nine organizations across Africa, Europe, Mexico and the U.S. The organizations include two law firms, an insurance company, an architectural firm, a construction company and an...

150,000 Verkada security cameras hacked—to make a point

Hackers were able to gain access to camera feeds from Verkada, a tech company that specializes in video security and physical access control, to demonstrate how prevalent surveillance is, reports say. Unfortunately, it also exposed the inner workings of hospitals, clinics, and mental health...

Is MFA a Security Illusion?

A recent Akamai Security blog post, Massive Campaign Targeting UK Banks Bypassing 2FA, written by my colleague Or Katz, is a great insight into how attackers used very simple techniques to bypass two-factor 2FA authentication security to obtain access to U.K. consumers' bank accounts...

Mobile Adware Booms, Online Banks Become Prime Target for Attacks

Hackers painted a bullseye on the backs of online financial institutions in 2020 as the pandemic shuttered local branch offices and forced customers online. Over the past 12 months, incidents of adware nearly tripled. And, overall in 2020 researchers saw a slight drop in the number of mobile...

Massive Campaign Targeting UK Banks Bypassing 2FA

On 14 July, 2020, Oliver Hough, a security researcher from Cyjax, published a report centered on a phishing campaign targeting banking customers in the United Kingdom, which evades two-factor authentication 2FA...

The chronicles of Emotet

More than six years have passed since the banking Trojan Emotet was first detected. During this time it has repeatedly mutated, changed direction, acquired partners, picked up modules, and generally been the cause of high-profile incidents and multimillion-dollar losses. The malware is still in...

Check Washing

I cant believe that check washing is still a thing: "Check washing" is a practice where thieves break into mailboxes or otherwise steal mail, find envelopes with checks, then use special solvents to remove the information on that check except for the signature and then change the payee and the...

Malware Families Turn to Legit Pastebin-Like Service

Cybercriminals are increasingly turning to a legitimate, Pastebin-like web service for downloading malware — such as AgentTesla and LimeRAT — in spear-phishing attacks. Pastebin, a code-hosting service that enables users to share plain text through public posts called “pastes,” currently has 17...

OldGremlin Ransomware Group Bedevils Russian Orgs

A new cybercriminal group called OldGremlin has been targeting Russian companies – including banks, industrial enterprises and medical firms – with ransomware attacks. OldGremlin relies on a bevy of tools, including custom backdoors called TinyPosh and TinyNode, to gain an initial foothold in the...

North Korea ATM Hack

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA published a long and technical alert describing a North Korea hacking scheme against ATMs in a bunch of countries worldwide: This joint advisory is the result of analytic efforts among the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agenc...

A New Botnet Is Covertly Targeting Millions of Servers

FritzFrog has been used to try and infiltrate government agencies, banks, telecom companies, and universities across the US and Europe...

secure.curtisbanks.co.uk Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1211363 Security Researcher geeknik Helped patch 8930 vulnerabilities Received 8 Coordinated Disclosure badges Received 21 recommendations , a holder of 8 badges for responsible and coordinated disclosure, found a security vulnerability affecting secure.curtisbanks.co.uk...

Kids on the Web in 2020

Technology is what is saving us from a complete change in the way of life in a world of a raging pandemic. It keeps the educational process going, relieves the shortage of human communication and helps us to live life as fully as possible given the isolation and social distancing. Many adults, an...

Banks Prioritizing Microsegmentation

Learn how microsegmentation allows financial institutions to achieve goals, from automation to streamlining firewall compliance, while protected...

Roaming Mantis, part V

Kaspersky has continued to track the Roaming Mantis campaign. The group's attack methods have improved and new targets continuously added in order to steal more funds. The attackers' focus has also shifted to techniques that avoid tracking and research: whitelist for distribution, analysis...

SMS Phishing Campaign Targets Mobile Bank App Users in North America

A mobile phishing campaign that targeted customers of more than a dozen North American banks, including Chase, Royal Bank of Canada and TD Bank, managed to hook nearly 4,000 victims. The attacks used an automated SMS tool to blast bogus security text messages to mobile phone users between June an...

Tishna - Complete Automated Pentest Framework For Servers, Application Layer To Web Security

Complete Automated pentest framework for Servers, Application Layer to Web Security Interface Software have 62 Options with full automation and can be use for web security swiss knife Tishna Tishna is Web Server Security Penetration Software for Ultimate Security Analaysis Kali, Parrot OS, Black...

Joker's Stash Drops Largest-Ever Credit Card Cache on Dark Web

Joker’s Stash, a Dark Web destination that specializes in trading in payment-card data, has added 1.3 million credit and debit cards to its inventory, belonging to Indian banking customers. Researchers said it’s the largest stolen payment card cache ever put up for sale. According to Group-IB, th...