Iranian Cyber Actors’ Brute Force and Credential Access Activity Compromises Critical Infrastructure Organizations

Summary The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, the National Security Agency NSA, the Communications Security Establishment Canada CSE, the Australian Federal Police AFP, and Australian Signals Directorate's Australian Cyber Security...

Threat Source newsletter (April 13, 2023) — Dark web forum whac-a-mole

Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Law enforcement organizations across the globe notched a series of wins over the past few weeks against online forums for cybercriminals. On March 23, the FBI announced it disrupted the online cybercriminal marketplace BreachForums,...

Where Bug Bounty Programs Fall Flat

Eavesdropping on the chatter of 600+ cybercriminal forums shows that cybercriminals have specific preferences, shown by the flavors of exploits they requisition, and that the bug bounty programs either are too slow, don’t pay enough or are just the start of profit-making. A year-long study into t...

Microsoft, Adobe Exploits Top List of Crooks’ Wish List

A year-long study into the underground market for exploits in cybercriminal forums shows that crooks are salivating for Microsoft bugs, which are far and away the most requested and most sold exploits. According to researchers see chart below Microsoft products made up a whopping 47 percent of th...

Botnet: Kneber

Kneber Zbot, BTN1 is a form of malware which is reported to have affected more than 74,000 PCs in 2,400 business and government systems around the world. Kneber, named after the username linking the infected computers worldwide Hilary Kneber, is related to the ZeuS botnet, a malware botnet packag...