Imperva Continues to Innovate With New Features for Online Fraud Prevention

Last year, Imperva embarked on a mission to help organizations combat the growing threat of digital fraud. We introduced a new solution and a range of innovative features to help detect and prevent online fraud at its earliest stages. Imperva Online Fraud Prevention stops fraud ranging from...

Would-be hitman busted after being fooled by parody website

A member of the Air National Guard is facing federal charges after applying for a job online as an assassin. According to a Justice Department press release, Josiah Ernesto Garcia from Hermitage, Tennessee, was arrested by an undercover federal agent at a park on April 12, 2023. The FBI affidavit...

APT28 Exploits Known Vulnerability to Carry Out Reconnaissance and Deploy Malware on Cisco Routers

APT28 accesses poorly maintained Cisco routers and deploys malware on unpatched devices using CVE-2017-6742. Overview and Context The UK National Cyber Security Centre NCSC, the US National Security Agency NSA, US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and US Federal Bureau of...

Why is ‘Juice Jacking’ Suddenly Back in the News?

KrebsOnSecurity received a nice bump in traffic this week thanks to tweets from the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI and the Federal Communications Commission FCC about "juice jacking," a term first coined here in 2011 to describe a potential threat of data theft when one plugs their mobile...

Sextortion "assistance" scammers con victims further

The FBI is warning of a particular aspect of sextortion scams: Supposed organisations that offer "help" to remove stolen images, often at a significant financial cost and no guarantee of success. Sextortion, the act of blackmailing individuals for cash in return for not leaking sensitive imagery...

FBI Advising People to Avoid Public Charging Stations

The FBI is warning people against using public phone-charging stations, worrying that the combination power-data port can be used to inject malware onto the devices: Avoid using free charging stations in airports, hotels, or shopping centers. Bad actors have figured out ways to use public USB por...

Don't plug your phone into a free charging station, warns FBI

In a recent tweet, the FBI office in Denver warned consumers against using free public charging stations, stating that criminals have managed to hijack public chargers with the objective of infecting devices with malware or other software that can give hackers access to your phone, tablet or...

Ukrainian Hackers Breach Email of APT28 Leader, Who’s Wanted by FBI

By Waqas APT28, or Fancy Bear, is a Russian government-backed nefarious hacking group known for using spear-phishing campaigns against its targets. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Ukrainian Hackers Breach Email of APT28 Leader, Whos Wanted by FBI...

FBI Cracks Down on Genesis Market: 119 Arrested in Cybercrime Operation

A joint international law enforcement operation has dismantled Genesis Market, an illegal online marketplace that specialized in the sale of stolen credentials associated with email, bank accounts, and social media platforms. Coinciding with the infrastructure seizure, the major crackdown, which...

FBI (and Others) Shut Down Genesis Market

Genesis Market is shut down: Active since 2018, Genesis Markets slogan was, "Our store sells bots with logs, cookies, and their real fingerprints." Customers could search for infected systems with a variety of options, including by Internet address or by specific domain names associated with stol...

Genesis Market’s Clearnet domain seized; Dark Web site still online

By Waqas The FBI and European authorities have seized Genesis Markets clearnet domains as part of the ongoing Operation Cookie… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Genesis Markets Clearnet domain seized; Dark Web site still online...

FBI Seizes Bot Shop ‘Genesis Market’ Amid Arrests Targeting Operators, Suppliers

Several domain names tied to Genesis Market, a bustling cybercrime store that sold access to passwords and other data stolen from millions of computers infected with malicious software, were seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI today. The domain seizures coincided with more than a...

A Royal Analysis of Royal Ransom

A Royal Analysis of Royal Ransom By Trellix · April 3, 2023 This blog was also written by Alexandre Mundo and Max Kersten We would like to thank Advanced Cyber Services team within Trellix Professional Services for the incident response-related data. Emerging in early 2022 as a private group whic...

A Royal Analysis of Royal Ransom

A Royal Analysis of Royal Ransom By Alexandre Mundo, and Max Kersten · April 3, 2023 We would like to thank Advanced Cyber Services team within Trellix Professional Services for the incident response-related data. Emerging in early 2022 as a private group which used multiple strains of ransomware...

20-Year-Old BreachForums Founder Faces Up to 5 Years in Prison

Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, the 20-year-old founder and the administrator of the now-defunct BreachForums has been formally charged in the U.S. with conspiracy to commit access device fraud. If proven guilty, Fitzpatrick, who went by the online moniker "pompompurin," faces a maximum penalty of up to...

BreachForums to be shut down after all for fear of law enforcement infiltration

On March 15, 2023 US law enforcement arrested a man from New York who was accused of being the administrator of BreachForums, a well-known and probably the largest Dark Web marketplace for stolen data to be leaked and sold. At first, a new administrator rose to the occasion and said they were...

Feds Charge NY Man as BreachForums Boss “Pompompurin”

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI this week arrested a New York man on suspicion of running BreachForums, a popular English-language cybercrime forum where some of the world biggest hacked databases routinely show up for sale. The forums administrator "Pompompurin" has been a thorn in...

KillNet and affiliate hacktivist groups targeting healthcare with DDoS attacks

In the last year, geopolitical tension has led to an uptick of reported cybercrime events fueled by hacktivist groups. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA published an advisory to warn organizations about these attacks and teamed with the FBI on a distributed...

#StopRansomware: LockBit 3.0

Actions to take today to mitigate cyber threats from ransomware: 1. Prioritize remediating known exploited vulnerabilities. 2. Train users to recognize and report phishing attempts. 3. Enable and enforce phishing-resistant multifactor authentication...

NetWire Remote Access Trojan Maker Arrested

From Brian Krebs: A Croatian national has been arrested for allegedly operating NetWire, a Remote Access Trojan RAT marketed on cybercrime forums since 2012 as a stealthy way to spy on infected systems and siphon passwords. The arrest coincided with a seizure of the NetWire sales website by the...