Backdoor.Win32.DarkMoon.a Weak Hardcoded Password

Discovery / credits: Malvuln - malvuln.com c 2021 Original source: https://malvuln.com/advisory/7361fe3620fb6e18467c8e15e224b0b8.txt Contact: [email protected] Media: twitter.com/malvuln Threat: Backdoor.Win32.DarkMoon.a Vulnerability: Weak Hardcoded Password Description: Dark Moon v1 client by...

Magecart Goes Server-Side in Latest Tactics Changeup

Magecart Group 12, known for skimming payment information from online shoppers, was fingered for last September’s gonzo attack on more than 2,000 e-Commerce sites, and now researchers have issued a report explaining how they did it, detailing a new technical approach. The skimmers are still “very...

U.S. Pipeline Ransomware Attackers Go Dark After Servers and Bitcoin Are Seized

Just as Colonial Pipeline restored all of its systems to operational status in the wake of a crippling ransomware incident a week ago, DarkSide, the cybercrime syndicate behind the attack, claimed it lost control of its infrastructure, citing a law enforcement seizure. All the dark web sites...

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Bogus COVID-19 test results, fraudulent vaccination cards, and questionable vaccines are emerging a hot commodity on the dark web in what's the latest in a long list of cybercrimes capitalizing on the coronavirus pandemic. "A new and troubling phenomenon is that consumers are buying COVID-19...

Ransomware Gang Leaks Metropolitan Police Data After Failed Negotiations

The cybercrime syndicate behind Babuk ransomware has leaked more personal files belonging to the Metropolitan Police Department MPD after negotiations with the DC Police broke down, warning that they intend to publish all data if their ransom demands are not met. "The negotiations reached a dead...

Over 25% Of Tor Exit Relays Spied On Users' Dark Web Activities

An unknown threat actor managed to control more than 27% of the entire Tor network exit capacity in early February 2021, a new study on the dark web infrastructure revealed. "The entity attacking Tor users is actively exploiting tor users since over a year and expanded the scale of their attacks ...

Deepfake Attacks Are About to Surge, Experts Warn

Artificial intelligence and the rise of deepfake technology is something cybersecurity researchers have cautioned about for years and now it’s officially arrived. Cybercriminals are increasingly sharing, developing and deploying deepfake technologies to bypass biometric security protections, and ...

Authorities seize world’s biggest dark web child abuse site

By Waqas The dark web site called "BoysTown" had over 400,000 active users. - Here's how many people have been arrested and what the site hosted. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Authorities seize world’s biggest dark web child abuse site...

Identifying the Person Behind Bitcoin Fog

The person behind the Bitcoin Fog was identified and arrested. Bitcoin Fog was an anonymization service: for a fee, it mixed a bunch of peoples bitcoins up so that it was hard to figure out where any individual coins came from. It ran for ten years. Identifying the person behind Bitcoin Fog serve...

Feds Arrest an Alleged $336M Bitcoin-Laundering Kingpin

The alleged administrator of Bitcoin Fog kept the dark web service running for 10 years before the IRS caught up with him...

Indian Brokerage Firm Upstox Suffers Data Breach Leaking 2.5 Millions Users' Data

Online trading and discount brokerage platform Upstox has become the latest Indian company to suffer a security breach of its systems, resulting in the exposure of sensitive information of approximately 2.5 million users on the dark web. The leaked information includes names, email addresses, dat...

How bitcoin payments unmasked a man who hired a Dark Web contract killer

An Italian citizens apparent attempt to hire a hitman on the Dark Web has been undone by clever analysis of his Bitcoin transactions. The man, who is reported to be an IT worker employed by a major corporation, is alleged to have paid the hitman to assassinate his former girlfriend. What happened...

Ragnarok Ransomware Hits Boggi Milano Menswear

Luxury Italian men’s clothing line Boggi Milano has confirmed what Ragnarok was already bragging about on the Dark Web: The brand was hit with a ransomware attack, according to multiple sources. Ragnarok and Boggi Milano representatives who spoke to Bloomberg agree on the facts; the ransomware...

DeepDotWeb Admin Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering Charges

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ on Wednesday said that an Israeli national pleaded guilty for his role as an "administrator" of a portal called DeepDotWeb DDW, a "news" website that "served as a gateway to numerous dark web marketplaces." According to the unsealed court documents, Tal Prihar ,...

DeepDotWeb Admin Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering Charges

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ on Wednesday said that an Israeli national pleaded guilty for his role as an "administrator" of a portal called DeepDotWeb DDW, a "news" website that "served as a gateway to numerous dark web marketplaces." According to the unsealed court documents, Tal Prihar,...

How to Vaccinate Against the Poor Password Policy Pandemic

Data breaches remain a constant threat, and no industry or organization is immune from the risks. From Fortune 500 companies to startups, password-related breaches continue to spread seemingly unchecked. As a result of the volume of data breaches and cybersecurity incidents, hackers now have acce...

MobiKwik Suffers Major Breach — KYC Data of 3.5 Million Users Exposed

Popular Indian mobile payments service MobiKwik on Monday came under fire after 8.2 terabytes TB of data belonging to millions of its users began circulating on the dark web in the aftermath of a major data breach that came to light earlier this month. The leaked data includes sensitive personal...

The Dark Web Is Teeming With Vaccine Listings Right Now

Vendors are cashing in on people desperate to leapfrog the line—or falsely certify that they got the shot...

Black Kingdom Ransomware Hunting Unpatched Microsoft Exchange Servers

More than a week after Microsoft released a one-click mitigation tool to mitigate cyberattacks targeting on-premises Exchange servers, the company disclosed that patches have been applied to 92% of all internet-facing servers affected by the ProxyLogon vulnerabilities. The development, a 43%...

SpaceX employee admits security fraud, insider trading on dark web

By Deeba Ahmed Between 2016 and 2017, "MillionaireMike" bought names, birth dates, and SSN from the Dark Web to create fake accounts for insider trading. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: SpaceX employee admits security fraud, insider trading on dark web...