Threat Source newsletter (April 13, 2023) — Dark web forum whac-a-mole

Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Law enforcement organizations across the globe notched a series of wins over the past few weeks against online forums for cybercriminals. On March 23, the FBI announced it disrupted the online cybercriminal marketplace BreachForums,...

BreachForums to be shut down after all for fear of law enforcement infiltration

On March 15, 2023 US law enforcement arrested a man from New York who was accused of being the administrator of BreachForums, a well-known and probably the largest Dark Web marketplace for stolen data to be leaked and sold. At first, a new administrator rose to the occasion and said they were...

New Cyber Platform Lab 1 Decodes Dark Web Data to Uncover Hidden Supply Chain Breaches

2022 was the year when inflation hit world economies, except in one corner of the global marketplace – stolen data. Ransomware payments fell by over 40% in 2022 compared to 2021. More organisations chose not to pay ransom demands, according to findings by blockchain firm Chainalysis. Nonetheless,...

Warning issued over Royal ransomware

As part of its StopRansomware effort, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has published a Cybersecurity Advisory CSA about Royal ransomware. Royal ransomware is a Ransomware-as-a-service Raas that first made an appearance in January 2022. In September of that year, it began...

Acer Data Breach: Hacker Claims to Sell 160GB Trove of Stolen Data

By Waqas A hacker on a popular forum is claiming to have stolen Acer Inc.'s data in mid-February 2023. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Acer Data Breach: Hacker Claims to Sell 160GB Trove of Stolen Data...

keycloak: user impersonation via stolen uuid code

A flaw was found in Keycloak's OpenID Connect user authentication, which may incorrectly authenticate requests. An authenticated attacker who could obtain information from a user request within the same realm could use that data to impersonate the victim and generate new session tokens. This issu...

keycloak: user impersonation via stolen uuid code

A flaw was found in Keycloak's OpenID Connect user authentication, which may incorrectly authenticate requests. An authenticated attacker who could obtain information from a user request within the same realm could use that data to impersonate the victim and generate new session tokens. This issu...

Arrested: Fearmongering data thieves who victimized thousands of businesses

The Dutch police have announced the arrest of three more suspects in one of the biggest data extortion cases to date. The men, all aged between 18 and 21, were allegedly involved in extorting businesses and selling stolen data to other criminals. During a two-year investigation the police learned...

Indian Ticketing Platform RailYatri Hacked – 31 Million Impacted

By Waqas The RailYatri hack took place in December 2022, but the stolen data has only been leaked earlier today on a prominent hacker forum. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Indian Ticketing Platform RailYatri Hacked - 31 Million Impacted...

CircleCI Urges Customers to Rotate Secrets Following Security Incident

DevOps platform CircleCI on Wednesday urged its customers to rotate all their secrets following an unspecified security incident. The company said an investigation is currently ongoing, but emphasized that "there are no unauthorized actors active in our systems." Additional details are expected t...

Uber data stolen via third-party vendor

Uber is facing a new cybersecurity incident after threat actors stole some of its data from Teqtivity, a third-party vendor that provides asset management and tracking services. "We are aware of customer data that was compromised due to unauthorized access to our systems by a malicious third...

Black Basta Ransomware Gang Actively Infiltrating U.S. Companies with Qakbot Malware

Companies based in the U.S. have been at the receiving end of an "aggressive" Qakbot malware campaign that leads to Black Basta ransomware infections on compromised networks. "In this latest campaign, the Black Basta ransomware gang is using QakBot malware to create an initial point of entry and...

Medibank Distressed As Ransomware Group Threatens to Post Stolen Data

By Habiba Rashid While some believe the ransomware group threatening Medibank to be a REvil relaunch, others suspect it is BlogXX, a new operation linked to REvil. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Medibank Distressed As Ransomware Group Threatens to Post Stolen Data...

DEV-0832 (Vice Society) opportunistic ransomware campaigns impacting US education sector

In recent months, Microsoft has detected active ransomware and extortion campaigns impacting the global education sector, particularly in the US, by a threat actor we track as DEV-0832, also known as Vice Society. Shifting ransomware payloads over time from BlackCat, QuantumLocker, and Zeppelin,...

Cybercriminals Used Two PoS Malware to Steal Details of Over 167,000 Credit Cards

Two point-of-sale PoS malware variants have been put to use by a threat actor to steal information related to more than 167,000 credit cards from payment terminals. According to Singapore-headquartered cybersecurity company Group-IB, the stolen data dumps could net the operators as much as $3.34...

Hackers turn to Signal, Telegram and Dark Web to assist Iranian protestors

By Waqas Hackers are actively using encrypted chat apps like Signal and Telegram to share stolen data belonging to the Iranian government, tutorials on how to hack, and use VPNs and Tor to bypass censorship. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers turn to Signal, Telegram...

Optus data breach "attacker" says sorry, it was a mistake

Since Australian telecoms company Optus disclosed a security breach on September 22, 2022, a lot has been happening. Much of it reads like a movie script. Prologue A hacker acting under the pseudonym "optusdata" claims to have stolen the data of 10 million Optus customers. The information include...

Optus Hacker Apologizes to Australians Over Data Breach

By Waqas The hacker has also decided not to sell the stolen Optus customers' data to anyone. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Optus Hacker Apologizes to Australians Over Data Breach...

New NullMixer Malware Campaign Stealing Users' Payment Data and Credentials

Cybercriminals are continuing to prey on users searching for cracked software by directing them to fraudulent websites hosting weaponized installers that deploy malware called NullMixer on compromised systems. "When a user extracts and executes NullMixer, it drops a number of malware files to the...

Void Balaur Hackers-for-Hire Targeting Russian Businesses and Politics Entities

A hack-for-hire group that was first exposed in 2019 has expanded its focus to set its sights on entities with business or political ties to Russia. Dubbed Void Balaur, the cyber mercenary collective has a history of launching cyberattacks against biotechnology and telecom companies since 2015. A...