Explain First, Trust Later: LLM-Augmented Explanations for Graph-Based Crypto Anomaly Detection

The decentralized finance DeFi community has grown rapidly in recent years, pushed forward by cryptocurrency enthusiasts interested in the vast untapped potential of new markets. The surge in popularity of cryptocurrency has ushered in a new era of financial crime. Unfortunately, the novelty of t...

PRISON: Unmasking the Criminal Potential of Large Language Models

As large language models LLMs advance, concerns about their misconduct in complex social contexts intensify. Existing research overlooked the systematic understanding and assessment of their criminal capability in realistic interactions. We propose a unified framework PRISON, to quantify LLMs'...

FIN6 Uses AWS-Hosted Fake Resumes on LinkedIn to Deliver More_eggs Malware

The financially motivated threat actor known as FIN6 has been observed leveraging fake resumes hosted on Amazon Web Services AWS infrastructure to deliver a malware family called Moreeggs. "By posing as job seekers and initiating conversations through platforms like LinkedIn and Indeed, the group...

Pakistan Arrests 21 in ‘Heartsender’ Malware Service

Authorities in Pakistan have arrested 21 individuals accused of operating "Heartsender ," a once popular spam and malware dissemination service that operated for more than a decade. The main clientele for HeartSender were organized crime groups that tried to trick victim companies into making...

ABB M2M Gateway Information Disclosure in embedded OpenSSL (CVE-2012-4929)

The TLS protocol 1.2 and earlier, as used in Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Qt, and other products, can encrypt compressed data without properly obfuscating the length of the unencrypted data, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain plaintext HTTP headers by observing length differenc...

CVE-2024-1821

A vulnerability was found in code-projects Crime Reporting System 1.0. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file policeadd.php. The manipulation of the argument policename/policeid/policespec/password leads to sql injection. The exploit has been disclos...

CVE-2023-1793

A vulnerability was found in SourceCodester Police Crime Record Management System 1.0. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown part of the file /officer/assigncase.php of the component GET Parameter Handler. The manipulation of the argument caseid leads to sql injection. It is...

CVE-2023-1794

A vulnerability was found in SourceCodester Police Crime Record Management System 1.0. It has been declared as problematic. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file /admin/casedetails.php of the component GET Parameter Handler. The manipulation of the argument id with the input " leads...

CVE-2021-2448

Vulnerability in the Oracle Financial Services Crime and Compliance Investigation Hub product of Oracle Financial Services Applications component: Reports. The supported version that is affected is 20.1.2. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with logon to the...

What to Expect When You’re Convicted

When a formerly incarcerated “troubleshooter for the mafia” looked for a second career he chose the thing he knew best. He became a prison consultant for white-collar criminals...

Xinbi Telegram Market Tied to $8.4B in Crypto Crime, Romance Scams, North Korea Laundering

A Chinese-language, Telegram-based marketplace called Xinbi Guarantee has facilitated no less than $8.4 billion in transactions since 2022, making it the second major black market to be exposed after HuiOne Guarantee. According to a report published by blockchain analytics firm Elliptic, merchant...

An $8.4 Billion Chinese Hub for Crypto Crime Is Incorporated in Colorado

Before a crackdown by Telegram, Xinbi Guarantee grew into one of the internet’s biggest markets for Chinese-speaking crypto scammers and money laundering. And all registered to a US address...

Europol Shuts Down Six DDoS-for-Hire Services Used in Global Attacks

Europol has announced the takedown of distributed denial of service DDoS-for-hire services that were used to launch thousands of cyber-attacks across the world. In connection with the operation, Polish authorities have arrested four individuals aged between 19 and 22 and the United States has...

The AI chatbot cop squad is here (Lock and Code S06E09)

This week on the Lock and Code podcast … “Heidi” is a 36-year-old, San Francisco-born, divorced activist who is lonely, outspoken, and active on social media. “Jason” is a shy, bilingual teenager whose parents immigrated from Ecuador who likes anime, gaming, comic books, and hiking. Neither of th...

MintsLoader Drops GhostWeaver via Phishing, ClickFix — Uses DGA, TLS for Stealth Attacks

The malware loader known as MintsLoader has been used to deliver a PowerShell-based remote access trojan called GhostWeaver. "MintsLoader operates through a multi-stage infection chain involving obfuscated JavaScript and PowerShell scripts," Recorded Future's Insikt Group said in a report shared...

JokerOTP Dismantled After 28,000 Phishing Attacks, 2 Arrested

JokerOTP dismantled after 28,000 phishing attacks across 13 countries; UK and Dutch police arrest two suspects linked to £7.5M cyber fraud...

The Dark Side of the Web: Towards Understanding Various Data Sources in Cyber Threat Intelligence

Cyber threats have become increasingly prevalent and sophisticated. Prior work has extracted actionable cyber threat intelligence CTI, such as indicators of compromise, tactics, techniques, and procedures TTPs, or threat feeds from various sources: open source data e.g., social networks, internal...

Money Laundering 101, and why Joe is worried

Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Howdy friends! One of things I learned early on in cyber security is that crime does, in fact, pay. It can pay very well, actually. If it didn't, we wouldn't have ransomware cartels raking in obscene amounts of money year after year...

Hackers Using E-Crime Tool Atlantis AIO for Credential Stuffing on 140+ Platforms

Threat actors are leveraging an e-crime tool called Atlantis AIO Multi-Checker to automate credential stuffing attacks, according to findings from Abnormal Security. Atlantis AIO "has emerged as a powerful weapon in the cybercriminal arsenal, enabling attackers to test millions of stolen...

Alleged Israeli LockBit Developer Rostislav Panev Extradited to U.S. for Cybercrime Charges

A 51-year-old dual Russian and Israeli national who is alleged to be a developer of the LockBit ransomware group has been extradited to the United States, nearly three months after he was formally charged in connection with the e-crime scheme. Rostislav Panev was previously arrested in Israel in...