North Korean Affiliates Suspected in $40M Cryptocurrency Heist, FBI Warns

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI on Tuesday warned that threat actors affiliated with North Korea may attempt to cash out stolen cryptocurrency worth more than $40 million. The law enforcement agency attributed the blockchain activity to an adversary the U.S. government tracks as...

FBI and NCSC Warn of Foreign Cyberattacks on US Space Sector

By Habiba Rashid Foreign cyber spies are targeting the US space industry for secrets and technology, warns the FBI, NCSC, and AFOSI. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: FBI and NCSC Warn of Foreign Cyberattacks on US Space Sector...

Recapping the top stories from Black Hat and DEF CON

Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter. I had a significant amount of FOMO last week seeing everyone out in Vegas. I was happy to not get conference crud sickness, but it seems like I missed a great time otherwise. But, as anyone who works with me could guess, I was followi...

Beware malware posing as beta versions of legitimate apps, warns FBI

The FBI has issued a warning that cybercriminals are embedding malicious code in mobile beta-testing apps in attempts to defraud potential victims. The victims are typically contacted on dating sites and social media, and in some cases they are promised incentives such as large financial payouts...

Several hospitals still counting the cost of widespread ransomware attack

The 16 hospitals struck down by ransomware last week are still dealing with the fallout from the attack. The healthcare facilities located in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Rhode island, and California had the ransomware attack confirmed by the FBI. Issues started to emerge last Thursday with patient...

FBI Alert: Crypto Scammers are Masquerading as NFT Developers

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI is warning about cyber crooks masquerading as legitimate non-fungible token NFT developers to steal cryptocurrency and other digital assets from unsuspecting users. In these fraudulent schemes, criminals either obtain direct access to NFT developer...

FBI warns users of NFT theft by malicious developers

By Waqas Cybercriminals are posing as legitimate NFT developers and employing sophisticated tactics to deceive unsuspecting victims. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: FBI warns users of NFT theft by malicious developers...

VirusTotal Data Leak Exposes Some Registered Customers' Details

Data associated with a subset of registered customers of VirusTotal, including their names and email addresses, were exposed after an employee inadvertently uploaded the information to the malware scanning platform. The security incident, which comprises a database of 5,600 names in a 313KB file,...

FBI Surveillance Fears Are Uniting a Badly Broken Congress

The FBI has collected sensitive data on millions of Americans without warrants, drawing intense scrutiny from Congress and turning the agency into a punching bag across the political divide...

Enhanced Monitoring to Detect APT Activity Targeting Outlook Online

SUMMARY In June 2023, a Federal Civilian Executive Branch FCEB agency identified suspicious activity in their Microsoft 365 M365 cloud environment. The agency reported the activity to Microsoft and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, and Microsoft determined that advanced...

Dark Web Genesis Market for Sale: Operators Seek Buyers for Defunct Enterprise

By Habiba Rashid Who would buy Genesis Market, which some speculate to be an FBI honeypot operation? This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Dark Web Genesis Market for Sale: Operators Seek Buyers for Defunct Enterprise...

Of sharks, surveillance, and spied-on emails: This is Section 702, with Matthew Guariglia

In the United States, when the police want to conduct a search on a suspected criminal, they must first obtain a search warrant. It is one of the foundational rights given to US persons under the Constitution, and a concept that has helped create the very idea of a right to privacy at home and...

Criminal secure messaging system takedown: 6500+ arrests and €900 million+ seized

In 2020, we reported on how law enforcement managed to compromise a secure communications system set up by and for criminals. Now, Europol has published a progress report showing the enormous impact the infiltration of the encrypted communications tool EncroChat made. EncroChat, a company based i...

Barracuda Email Security Gateway < 9.2.0.008 Command Injection (CVE-2023-2868)

According to its self-reported version, the Barracuda Email Security Gateway on the remote web server is 9.2.0.008. It is, therefore, affected by a command injection vulnerability in the processing of .tar files that could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands wit...

Docs Show FBI Pressures Cops to Keep Phone Surveillance Secrets

Newly released documents highlight the bureau's continued secrecy around cell-site simulators—spying tech that everyone already assumes exists...

A Newly Named Group of GRU Hackers is Wreaking Havoc in Ukraine

Plus: The arrest of an alleged Lockbit ransomware hacker, the wild tale of a problematic FBI informant, and one of North Korea’s biggest crypto heists...

LockBit ransomware advisory from CISA provides interesting insights

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center MS-ISAC, and the cybersecurity authorities of Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, and New Zealand CERT NZ, NCSC-NZ have all...

Understanding Ransomware Threat Actors: LockBit

SUMMARY In 2022, LockBit was the most deployed ransomware variant across the world and continues to be prolific in 2023. Since January 2020, affiliates using LockBit have attacked organizations of varying sizes across an array of critical infrastructure sectors, including financial services, food...

Clop Ransomware Gang Likely Aware of MOVEit Transfer Vulnerability Since 2021

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI have published a joint advisory regarding the active exploitation of a recently disclosed critical flaw in Progress Software's MOVEit Transfer application to drop ransomware. "The Cl0p Ransomwar...

Warning: Victims' faces placed on explicit images in sextortion scam

The FBI has issued a warning about criminals digitally manipulating people's faces on to pornographic images--known as deepfaking--and then using those images to harass or extort money out of their victim in a practice known as sextortion. The FBI said the victims include children. From the...