Ukraine Busts Pro-Russia Hackers Who Stole 30M Accounts of EU Citizens

By Waqas According to the Ukraine Security Service SSU, the hackers were selling the hacked accounts to "Russian propagandists" through the dark web. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Ukraine Busts Pro-Russia Hackers Who Stole 30M Accounts of EU Citizens...

Ukraine Arrests Cybercrime Group for Selling Data of 30 Million Accounts

Ukrainian law enforcement authorities on Friday disclosed that it had "neutralized" a hacking group operating from the city of Lviv that it said acted on behalf of Russian interests. The group specialized in the sales of 30 million accounts belonging to citizens from Ukraine and the European Unio...

7 Ways Good Data Security Practices Drive Data Governance

As more organizations continue with digital transformation plans, their ability to be good stewards of the data for which they are responsible becomes more difficult. They are generating more data, more data types, in more repositories, in more and different architectures. Every day, organization...

Researchers Detail OriginLogger RAT — Successor to Agent Tesla Malware

Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 has detailed the inner workings of a malware called OriginLogger, which has been touted as a successor to the widely used information stealer and remote access trojan RAT known as Agent Tesla. A .NET based keylogger and remote access, Agent Tesla has had a long-standing...

Three Keys to Securing Shadow Data

What is shadow data? Shadow data is any data contained anywhere in your entire data repository that is not visible to the tools you use to monitor and log data access. Shadow data may include: Customer data that DevOps teams copied into an unknown database to test applications they are developing...

8 Online Best Dark Web Search Engines for Tor Browser (2022)

By Waqas When it comes to the best dark web search engines, first and foremost, you want a search engine that is private and secure, as well as one that can be used anonymously. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 8 Online Best Dark Web Search Engines for Tor Browser 2022...

Cyber Signals: 3 strategies for protection against ransomware

The “as a service” business model has gained widespread popularity as growing cloud adoption has made it possible for people to access important services through third-party providers. Given the convenience and agility of service offerings, perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising that the “as a servic...

Cyber Signals: 3 strategies for protection against ransomware

The “as a service” business model has gained widespread popularity as growing cloud adoption has made it possible for people to access important services through third-party providers. Given the convenience and agility of service offerings, perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising that the “as a servic...

Reset your password now! Plex suffers data breach

In an email sent to its users, Plex has revealed that a cybercriminal accessed some customer data, including emails and encrypted passwords. From the email that was sent out by the Plex security team: Yesterday, we discovered suspicious activity on one of our databases. We immediately began an...

“Don’t touch that server. Ralf set that up, and we don’t know what it does.”

Based on a true story… More than a couple of decades ago, I went to work for a network and web company as their customer marketing department. It was a crazy time. Online marketing was all about getting on DMOZ, Lycos was still a puppy, asking Jeeves felt like talking to an AI, and how you laid o...

Threat Source newsletter (Aug. 11, 2022) — All of the things-as-a-service

By Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Everyone seems to want to create the next “Netflix” of something. Xbox’s Game Pass is the “Netflix of video games.” Rent the Runway is a “Netflix of fashion” where customers subscribe to a rotation of fancy clothes. A...

Industrial Spy trades stolen data on dark web Marketplace

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Since March 2022, Industrial Spy ransomware, a new menace in the threat environment, has been stealing and selling data on the dark web marketplace and conducting double extortion attacks, combining data theft...

A Growing Number of Malware Attacks Leveraging Dark Utilities 'C2-as-a-Service'

A nascent service called Dark Utilities has already attracted 3,000 users for its ability to provide command-and-control C2 services with the goal of commandeering compromised systems. "It is marketed as a means to enable remote access, command execution, distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack...

Ransomware review: July 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. In July, LockBit maintained...

Ransomware review: July 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. In July, LockBit maintained...

Attackers leveraging Dark Utilities "C2aaS" platform in malware campaigns

By Edmund Brumaghin, Azim Khodjibaev and Matt Thaxton, with contributions from Arnaud Zobec. Executive Summary Dark Utilities, released in early 2022, is a platform that provides full-featured C2 capabilities to adversaries. It is marketed as a means to enable remote access, command execution,...

What is Dark Data, and how can we find it?

What is “dark data”? The term “dark data” refers to “any information assets that organizations collect, process, and store during regular business activities but generally fail to use for other purposes” Gartner. Often retained for compliance reasons, this data can also include past employee...

Fedora: Security Advisory for onionscan (FEDORA-2022-4b5537c44c)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

[SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: onionscan-0.2-12.fc36

OnionScan is a free and open source tool for investigating the Dark Web...

How Organizations Manage to Understand Millions of Unstructured Data Files at Scale

For an ever-growing segment of organizations, making sense of unstructured data is fast becoming imperative. It is also far more challenging. Unlike structured data that’s stored in rows and columns, text-based, and easy to search in relational databases and data warehouses, there is no defined...