Social Engineering People’s Credit Card Details

Good Wall Street Journal article on criminal gangs that scam people out of their credit card information: Your highway toll payment is now past due, one text warns. You have U.S. Postal Service fees to pay, another threatens. You owe the New York City Department of Finance for unpaid traffic...

New ransomware group demands Change Healthcare ransom

The Change Healthcare ransomware attack has taken a third cruel twist. A new ransomware group, RansomHub, has listed the organisation as a victim on its dark web leak site, saying it has 4 TB of "highly selective data," which relates to "all Change Health clients that have sensitive data being...

Ransomware Attacks Are on the Rise, Again

Ransomware attacks tumbled in 2022, offering hope that the tide was turning against the criminal gangs behind them. Then things got a whole lot worse...

National Cybersecurity Strategy Document: What you need to know

The US Government has been working on the National Cybersecurity Strategy Document 2023 for some time now, and its finally been released. The strategy document, which replaces the last such piece of work from 2018, attempts to indicate the general direction of the US approach to cybercrime and...

Ransomware review: September 2022

Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence builds a monthly picture of ransomware activity by monitoring the information published by ransomware gangs on their Dark Web leak sites. This information represents victims who were successfully attacked but opted not to pay a ransom. This article is also availab...

Hackers Threaten to Leak D.C. Police Informants' Info If Ransom Is Not Paid

The Metropolitan Police Department MPD of the District of Columbia has become the latest high-profile government agency to fall victim to a ransomware attack. The Babuk Locker gang claimed in a post on the dark web that they had compromised the DC Police's networks and stolen 250 GB of unencrypte...

Tackling the BEC Epidemic in a New Partnership with INTERPOL

In just a few short years, Business Email Compromise BEC has gone from a peripheral threat to a major cyber risk for organizations. It’s making criminal gangs millions of dollars each month, hitting corporate profits and reputation in the process. Trend Micro has built a formidable array of...

ATM Users May Soon Face More Malware

By: David Sancho, Senior Threat Researcher at Trend Micro and Juan Jesús León, Product and New Development Manager of GMV Secure e-Solutions Trend Micro and GMV - an industry expert on ATM security - presented last week in London, during ATMSec, a conference focused on the topic. Our presentation...

Prices Rising at Illegal Underground Hacking Markets

Underground hacker markets are peddling complete kits to create new identities, elevating in-person fraud scams a tier closer to credit card theft and fraud. Researchers at Dell SecureWorks released an update to 2013 research on black hat markets, noticing a number of noteworthy trends beyond the...

Hackers will not be deterred by UK cyber defences !

Military "cyber weaponry" will become commonplace this century, but it will be unlikely to deter attacks by "hacktivists" and criminal gangs, and could easily be used for state-sponsored cyber attacks instead, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development warns. The British authors o...

ZDNet Security Blogger Goes Missing in Bulgaria

A prominent blogger and security researcher, Dancho Danchev, has gone missing and security publications, including Threatpost.com, are asking for help in locating him. Danchev, who contributed regular posts to ZDNet’s Zero Day blog, part of CBS Interactive, has been missing since late October...

Banking Botnet in Eastern Europe Steals, Disrupts

Banks in Russia and Ukraine are under continued siege by criminal gangs wielding a sophisticated, next-generation exploitation kit that hacks the financial institutions’ authentication system and then hits it with a denial-of-service attack. Read the full article. The Register...