Infamous dark net carding site UniCC to close

UniCC, the largest site on the dark web that sells credit card and debit card information, will close up shop for good, taking its affiliate site, LuxSocks, with it, too. According to Elliptic, a company that offers risk solutions for cryptoassets, the unknown UniCC administrators have made an...

A New Destructive Malware Targeting Ukrainian Government and Business Entities

Cybersecurity teams from Microsoft on Saturday disclosed they identified evidence of a new destructive malware operation dubbed "WhisperGate" targeting government, non-profit, and information technology entities in Ukraine amid brewing geopolitical tensions between the country and Russia. "The...

Russia Arrests REvil Ransomware Gang Responsible for High-Profile Cyber Attacks

In an unprecedented move, Russia's Federal Security Service FSB, the country's principal security agency, on Friday disclosed that it arrested several members belonging to the notorious REvil ransomware gang and neutralized its operations. The surprise takedown, which it said was carried out at t...

Top Illicit Carding Marketplace UniCC Abruptly Shuts Down

A top underground market for buying and selling stolen credit-card details, UniCC, has announced it’s shutting down operations. The site accounted for about 30 percent of carding scam business and, since it was launched in 2013, handled about $358 million in cryptocurrency transactions, according...

North Korean Hackers Stole Millions from Cryptocurrency Startups Worldwide

Operators associated with the Lazarus sub-group BlueNoroff have been linked to a series of cyberattacks targeting small and medium-sized companies worldwide with an aim to drain their cryptocurrency funds, in what's yet another financially motivated operation mounted by the prolific North Korean...

SnatchCrypto campaign carried out by North Korean APT 38 subsidiary BlueNoroff

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. BlueNoroff, an advanced persistent threat APT group thats part of the larger Lazarus Group associated with North Korea, is behind a series of attacks against small and medium-sized companies that have led to serious...

North Korean APTs Stole ~$400M in Crypto in 2021

Vast amounts of cash sloshing around in cryptocurrency markets are proving irresistible for cybercriminals and scammers of all kinds. From basic financial pump-and-dump schemes to straight-up nation-state cybertheft, nascent crypto markets, and their investors – often with dubious understanding o...

North Korean Hackers Stole Nearly $400M in Crypto Last Year

The regime had a “banner year,” thanks to skyrocketing cryptocurrency values and a new generation of vulnerable startups...

The BlueNoroff cryptocurrency hunt is still on

BlueNoroff is the name of an APT group coined by Kaspersky researchers while investigating the notorious attack on Bangladeshs Central Bank back in 2016. A mysterious group with links to Lazarus and an unusual financial motivation for an APT. The group seems to work more like a unit within a larg...

GHSA-QC9X-GJCV-465W Pipenv's requirements.txt parsing allows malicious index url in comments

Issue Summary Due to a flaw in pipenv's parsing of requirements files, an attacker can insert a specially crafted string inside a comment anywhere within a requirements.txt file, which will cause victims who use pipenv to install the requirements file e.g. with "pipenv install -r requirements.txt...

A week in security (January 3 – 9)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Ransomware attacks Finalsite, renders 8,000 school sites unreachable for days Patchwork APT caught in its own web Sophisticated phishing scheme spent years robbing authors of their unpublished work Google and Facebook fined $240 million for making cookies hard to...

Signal's Cryptocurrency Feature Has Gone Worldwide

A beta “payments” feature now lets users of the popular encrypted messaging app send MobileCoin around the globe...

2022 Cybersecurity Predictions: The Experts Clear Off the Crystal Ball

As we walk through the doorway of 2022, it's hard not to wish at least some among us had the gift of cosmic foresight. Many most? of the questions we thought in 2021 that we'd have answered by this point — chief among them, when will COVID finally leave us alone??? — still seem to elude us. In...

$10m of funds goes missing in what appears to be a cryptocurrency rug-pull

There’s a lot of concern in the cryptocurrency realm at the moment. A yield farming platform "utilizing arbitrage to gain optimal yield with low risk" has gone AWOL. Site down, Twitter account deleted, no word from the team behind it explaining what happened. Worst of all, some $10 million worth ...

Microsoft Warns of Continued Attacks Exploiting Apache Log4j Vulnerabilities

Microsoft is warning of continuing attempts by nation-state adversaries and commodity attackers to take advantage of security vulnerabilities uncovered in the Log4j open-source logging framework to deploy malware on vulnerable systems. "Exploitation attempts and testing have remained high during...

5 Things to Consider When Getting into Cryptocurrency

By Owais Sultan When it comes to cryptocurrency, you don’t have to just close your eyes and hope for the best. There are several ways you can put yourself in an advantageous position. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 5 Things to Consider When Getting into Cryptocurrency...

N Korean hackers stole $1.7 billion from cryptocurrency exchanges

By Waqas Experts believe North Korean hackers are keeping the stolen funds as a long-term investment. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: N Korean hackers stole $1.7 billion from cryptocurrency exchanges...

Cryptomining Attack Exploits Docker API Misconfiguration Since 2019

Hackers behind a cryptomining campaign have managed to avoid detection since 2019. The attacks exploited misconfigured Docker APIs that allowed them to gain network entry and ultimately sets up a backdoor on compromised hosts to mine cryptocurrency, researchers said. The attack technique is...

Telegram Abused to Steal Crypto-Wallet Credentials

Attackers are targeting crypto-wallets of Telegram users with the Echelon infostealer, in an effort aimed at defrauding new or unsuspecting users of a cryptocurrency discussion channel on the messaging platform, researchers have found. Researchers at the SafeGuard Cyber’s Division Seven threat...

Scammers Netted $7.7 Billion worth of Cryptocurrency in 2021

By Waqas A new report confirms that cryptocurrency-based crimes posed "one of the biggest threats to cryptocurrency's continued adoption." This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Scammers Netted $7.7 Billion worth of Cryptocurrency in 2021...