FBI Releases Article on Building a Digital Defense Against Facebook Scams

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has released an article on building a digital defense against a fraud that uses Facebook’s texting app—Facebook Messenger. Scammers send messages that appear to be from trusted sources or trick users into clicking on malicious links or sharing personal...

On Financial Fraud

There are some good lessons in this article on financial fraud: That's how we got it so wrong. We were looking for incidental breaches of technical regulations, not systematic crime. And the thing is, that's normal. The nature of fraud is that it works outside your field of vision, subverting the...

FBI’s BEC Crackdown Leads To 74 Arrests Globally

The FBI announced Monday the results of a major crackdown on scammers behind business email compromise BEC campaigns that resulted in 74 arrests and the retrieval of millions of dollars. Several U.S. federal authorities and police from other countries were involved in Operation WireWire, a...

A Five-Year Journey: How Trend Micro Helped Bring Down Scan4You

Trend Micro has always had a close relationship with law enforcement around the globe, because we believe that only together can we make the world a safer place in which to exchange digital information. As the business of cybercrime continues to grow and evolve, so must our response. That’s why w...

Mexico’s Banking System Sees $18M Siphoned Off in Phantom Transactions

Somewhere between $18 million to $20 million has gone missing during unauthorized interbank money transfers in Mexico’s central banking system. Authorities are investigating the shadow transactions, but answers are thus far scarce. The affected banks and government officials are determining wheth...

FBI Releases IC3 2017 Internet Crime Report

FBI has released the Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 2017 Internet Crime Report, which highlights scams trending online. The top three crime types reported by victims in 2017 were non-payment/non-delivery, personal data breach, and phishing. Hot topics for 2017 include ransomware, business...

DDoS-for-Hire Service Webstresser Dismantled

Authorities in the U.S., U.K. and the Netherlands on Tuesday took down popular online attack-for-hire service WebStresser.org and arrested its alleged administrators. Investigators say that prior to the takedown, the service had more than 136,000 registered users and was responsible for launching...

Exploit for CVE-2012-4929

CRIME-poc CRIME attack : a compression oracle attacks CVE-20...

Alleged Mastermind Behind Carbanak Crime Gang Arrested

The suspected mastermind behind the Carbanak criminal gang, which is notorious for stealing as much as $1 billion from more than 100 financial institutions in a string of attacks, has been apprehended, according to the Spanish National Police. According to the European Union Agency for Law...

DDoS Attacks in the Netherlands Reveal Teen Gamers on Troublesome Path

ARCHIVED STORY DDoS Attacks in the Netherlands Reveal Teen Gamers on Troublesome Path By John Fokker · Febraury 22, 2018 At the end of January, the Netherlands was plagued by distributed denial of service DDoS attacks targeting various financial institutions, tech sites, and the Dutch tax...

Internet Crime Complaint Center Impersonated for Malware & Phishing Scam

By Waqas Another day, another phishing scam - This time, hackers are impersonating Internet This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Internet Crime Complaint Center Impersonated for Malware & Phishing Scam...

Getting Back on the Field

Growing up as a foreign service brat, I was obsessed with security. Living in Guatemala in the 80s you had to adapt and become resilient as child. As there was no TV in our household, 10-year-old Tom began to tinker with my father’s computer and soon it became my oasis from the stress of living i...

Carbon Black 2017 Threat Report: Non-Malware Attacks and Ransomware Continue to Own the Spotlight

As the calendar shifted from December 2016 to January 2017, the prospect of a large-scale cyberattack loomed. Questions over the possible hacking of the 2016 U.S. presidential election swirled and businesses faced a growing attack vector in ransomware. In 2016, ransomware was estimated to be an...

McAfee Labs Advanced Threat Research Aids Arrest of Suspected Cybercrime Gang Linked to Top Malware CTB Locker

ARCHIVED STORY McAfee Labs Advanced Threat Research Aids Arrest of Suspected Cybercrime Gang Linked to Top Malware CTB Locker By Trellix · December 20, 2017 In our recent research, we interviewed the actors behind ransomware campaigns. One of the interesting findings was cybercriminals seemed to...

12 Threats of Christmas

We've all heard the old classic, "The 12 Days of Christmas." While we all enjoy a good song about a partridge in a pear tree, Trend Micro has updated this seasonal standby, counting down the top threats to be aware of heading into 2018, from least to most pressing. Let's look at the vulnerabiliti...

Holiday Scams and Malware Campaigns

US-CERT reminds users to remain vigilant when browsing or shopping online this holiday season. Emails and ecards from unknown senders may contain malicious links. Fake advertisements or shipping notifications may deliver attachments infected with malware. Spoofed email messages and phony posts on...

Multiple Ransomware Infections Reported

US-CERT has received multiple reports of ransomware infections, known as Bad Rabbit, in many countries around the world. A suspected variant of Petya, Bad Rabbit is ransomware—malicious software that infects a computer and restricts user access to the infected machine until a ransom is paid to...

Search Engine For Hackers: OSINT SPY

Performs OSINT scan on email/domain/ipaddress/organization using OSINT-SPY. It can be used by Data Miners, Infosec Researchers, Penetration Testers and cyber crime investigator in order to find deep information about their target. It includes gathering data from various public sources and their...

Get $1M for reporting zero-day flaws in Tor to “help Govt fight crime”

By Waqas Usually, a bug bounty program helps companies secure their software and This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Get $1M for reporting zero-day flaws in Tor to help Govt fight crime...

Why Is North Korea So Interested in Bitcoin?

In 2016 we began observing actors we believe to be North Korean utilizing their intrusion capabilities to conduct cyber crime, targeting banks and the global financial system. This marked a departure from previously observed activity of North Korean actors employing cyber espionage for traditiona...