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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 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...
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...
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...
Investment fraud overtakes business email compromise as most reported fraud
The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has published its 2022 Internet Crime Report. One of the most notable points is that investment fraud has now overtaken business email compromise BEC as the most reported and most damaging type of fraud. The numbers are based on the complaints reported to t...
International Law Enforcement Takes Down Infamous NetWire Cross-Platform RAT
A coordinated international law enforcement exercise has taken down the online infrastructure associated with a cross-platform remote access trojan RAT known as NetWire. Coinciding with the seizure of the sales website www.worldwiredlabs.com, a Croatian national who is suspected to be the website...
‘Pig Butchering’ Scams Are Now a $3 Billion Threat
The FBI’s latest Internet Crime Report highlights the stunning rise of investment-themed crimes over the past 18 months...
Congressman Darin LaHood Says FBI Targeted Him With Unlawful 'Backdoor' Searches
Representative Darin LaHood's claim that he was the subject of “backdoor” searches comes at a dicey moment for the bureau...
Who’s Behind the NetWire Remote Access Trojan?
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 U.S. Federal Bureau...