Russia seizes Trump Dumps, Ferum, and SkyFraud carding forums

By Waqas All three carding forums were popular among cybercriminals for buying and selling stolen credit and debit cards. Russian… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Russia seizes Trump Dumps, Ferum, and SkyFraud carding forums...

Unusual ‘Donald Trump’ Packer Malware Delivers RATs, Infostealers

A new .NET malware packer being used to deliver a variety of remote access trojans RATs and infostealers has a fixed password named after Donald Trump, giving the new find its name, “DTPacker.” DTPacker was discovered by researchers at Proofpoint who, since 2020, have observed it being used by...

Indictment, Lawsuits Revive Trump-Alfa Bank Story

In October 2016, media outlets reported that data collected by some of the worlds most renowned cybersecurity experts had identified frequent and unexplained communications between an email server used by the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank, one of Russias largest financial institutions. Those...

Pro-Trump Gettr Social Platform Hacked On Day 1

Gettr, a social media platform set up by allies of former President Donald Trump, was still wet and squirming when it got hacked – twice. The first slap on the rump for the politically conservative platform came in the form of Sonic the Hedgehog-themed porn that flooded it over the Fourth of July...

Presidential Cybersecurity and Pelotons

President Biden wants his Peloton in the White House. For those who have missed the hype, its an Internet-connected stationary bicycle. It has a screen, a camera, and a microphone. You can take live classes online, work out with your friends, or join the exercise social network. And all of that i...

Outgoing FCC Chair Issues Final Security Salvo Against China

Outgoing Federal Communications Chair Ajit Pai has issued a final warning about Chinese telcos at the end of a tenure spent cracking down on companies like Huawei, ZTE and China Telecom. Pai, a former telecommunications industry lobbyist and in-house counsel for Verizon, told Reuters that managin...

Trump’s Worst, Most Bizarre Statements About ‘the Cyber’

Over the course of his presidency, he managed to be consistently wrong, outrageous, and dangerous in equal measure. We look back at his most notorious remarks...

Ex-CISA Head Chris Krebs: ‘Impeachment Is the Right Mechanism’

In an interview with WIRED, the famously fired DHS official shared insights on election security, disinformation, SolarWinds—and what to do about Trump...

The Race to Preserve the DC Mob's Digital Traces

The pro-Trump mob that stormed the US Capitol livestreamed their actions. As social media platforms scramble to remove dangerous content, what will become of all that footage?...

Biden to Appoint Cybersecurity Advisor to NSC – Report

President-elect Joe Biden has reportedly tapped the National Security Agency’s cybersecurity director to serve in a brand-new cyber-role on his National Security Council. Anne Neuberger, a more than 10-year veteran of the NSA and its cyber-chief since 2019, will become the country’s deputy nation...

All Aboard the Pequod!

Like countless others, I frittered away the better part of Jan. 6 doomscrolling and watching television coverage of the horrifying events unfolding in our nations capital, where a mob of President Trump supporters and QAnon conspiracy theorists was incited to lay siege to the U.S. Capitol. For...

Fake Trump’s scandle video campaign spreading QNode RAT

By Deeba Ahmed Hackers are benefitting from the unrest after the US Presidential elections and spreading QNode malware. Here's what's going on behind the scene. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Fake Trumps scandle video campaign spreading QNode RAT...

It’s Not the Trump Sex Tape, It’s a RAT

As outgoing President Donald Trump continues to dominate headlines, cybercriminals have decided to horn in on the much-gossiped-about — and yet to materialize — Trump sex tape as a lure for malware delivery. A campaign has been uncovered that labels a malware downloader with the filename...

Hackers Using Fake Trump's Scandal Video to Spread QNode Malware

Cybesecurity researchers today revealed a new malspam campaign that distributes a remote access Trojan RAT by purporting to contain a sex scandal video of U.S. President Donald Trump. The emails, which carry with the subject line "GOOD LOAN OFFER!!," come attached with a Java archive JAR file...

Hackers Using Fake Trump's Scandal Video to Spread QNode Malware

Cybesecurity researchers today revealed a new malspam campaign that distributes a remote access Trojan RAT by purporting to contain a sex scandal video of U.S. President Donald Trump. The emails, which carry with the subject line "GOOD LOAN OFFER!!," come attached with a Java archive JAR file...

A week in security (December 21- December 27)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs we warned our readers about not so festive social media scams, how Emotet returned just in time for Christmas, we tried out some free online games your kids are playing and here’s what happened, and our VideoBytes episode talked about what penetration testing tools...

The Biden Administration Will Have Its Hands Full With Russia

After four years of Trump kowtowing to Putin, the US has its work cut out for it...

Trump’s Election Attack Ends December 14—Whether He Knows It or Not

Despite the Trump campaign’s fight to overturn the election, the wheels of American democracy keep turning...

Firing of CISA Chief Christopher Krebs Widely Condemned

Government officials and cybersecurity experts alike condemned President Trump’s firing of Christopher Krebs by tweet Tuesday, as the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA became the latest victim of the president’s housecleaning efforts after his failed bid at a...

Michael Ellis as NSA General Counsel

Over at Lawfare, Susan Hennessey has an excellent primer on how Trump loyalist Michael Ellis got to be the NSA General Counsel, over the objections of NSA Director Paul Nakasone, and what Biden can and should do about it. While important details remain unclear, media accounts include numerous...