Couple sold nuclear warship data hidden in peanut butter sandwich

By Deeba Ahmed The couple used a bubble gum package and peanut butter sandwich to hide SD card with sensitive data and sell it to undercover FBI agents. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Couple sold nuclear warship data hidden in peanut butter sandwich...

The Rise of Ransomware

With most employees still working from remote locations, ransomware attacks have increased steadily since the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic. According to the FBI’s 2020 Internet Crime Report 2400+ ransomware-related incidents in 2020 resulted in a loss of about 29 million dollars. These...

Ransomware Hackers Who Attacked Over 100 Companies Arrested in Ukraine

Law enforcement agencies have announced the arrest of two "prolific ransomware operators" in Ukraine who allegedly conducted a string of targeted attacks against large industrial entities in Europe and North America since at least April 2020, marking the latest step in combating ransomware...

Police take a piece out of a ransomware gang, but won’t say which one

One of the worlds ransomware groups appears to be a couple of members short today—and about two million dollars less rich—but nobody is sure which one. Police are staying tight-lipped about whos short-handed following the arrest of two individuals in Kyiv, Ukraine. The arrests are part of a joint...

Indictment, Lawsuits Revive Trump-Alfa Bank Story

In October 2016, media outlets reported that data collected by some of the worlds most renowned cybersecurity experts had identified frequent and unexplained communications between an email server used by the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank, one of Russias largest financial institutions. Those...

FBI Had the REvil Decryption Key

The Washington Post reports that the FBI had a decryption key for the REvil ransomware, but didnt pass it along to victims because it would have disrupted an ongoing operation. The key was obtained through access to the servers of the Russia-based criminal gang behind the July attack. Deploying i...

Freedom Hosting operator gets 27 years for hosting Dark Web child abuse sites

The wheels of justice have turned, if perhaps a bit slower than you may have expected. A Dublin resident, Eric Eoin Marques, has been sentenced to 27 years in federal prison. The reason is the frankly terrifying tally of child sexual abuse material CSAM he helped to distribute. Eoin helped to mak...

ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus has been abused in the wild due to a zero-day vulnerability

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. An APT actor is attempting to exploit a zero-day vulnerability in ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus, a self-service password management and single sign-on solution that poses a high risk to critical infrastructure companies,...

FBI and CISA warn of APT groups exploiting ADSelfService Plus

In a joint advisory the FBI, the United States Coast Guard Cyber Command CGCYBER, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA warn that advanced persistent threat APT cyber-actors may be exploiting a vulnerability in ManageEngines single sign-on SSO solution. The vulnerability...

CISA, FBI: State-Backed APTs Are Exploiting Critical Zoho Bug

The FBI, CISA and the U.S. Coast Guard Cyber Command CGCYBER warned today that state-backed advanced persistent threat APT actors are likely among those who’ve been actively exploiting a newly identified bug in a Zoho single sign-on and password management tool since early last month. At issue is...

Financial Cybercrime: Following Cryptocurrency via Public Ledgers

This is Part II of a two-part series on how cybercrooks embrace and use cryptocurrency. To read Part I, please click here. While Bitcoin transactions are anonymous, it’s possible to follow the money through public ledgers to see what those transactions actually are and how they flow. This allows ...

FBI-CISA-CGCYBER Advisory on APT Exploitation of ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus Vulnerability

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, CISA, and Coast Guard Cyber Command CGCYBER have released a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA detailing the active exploitation of an authentication bypass vulnerability CVE-2021-40539 in Zoho ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus—a self-service password manageme...

A week in security (Sept 6 – Sept 12)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs Apple delays plans to search devices for child abuse imagery. ProtonMail hands user’s IP address and device info to police, showing the limits of private email. Patch now! Netgear fixes serious smart switch vulnerabilities. Tor vs VPN—What is the difference? Windows...

Sextortion on the rise, warns FBI

The pandemic saw a surge in sextortion cases in 2020. Fast forward 12 months, and the numbers continue to rise significantly. This revelation came from the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3. Until 31 July 2021, it had received over 16,000 sextortion complaints, with victims losing a combine...

Ragnar Locker Gang Warns Victims Not to Call the FBI

All that the FBI/ransomware negotiators/investigators do is muck things up, so we’re going to publish your stuff if you call for help, the Ragnar Locker ransomware gang announced on its darknet data-leak site. In an announcement posted this week and seen by Bleeping Computer, the ransomware...

A week in security (August 30 – September 5)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs ProxyToken: another nail-biter from Microsoft Exchange Macs turn on apps signed by Symantec, treat them as malware Google Play sign-ins can be abused to track another person’s movements FTC bans SpyFone and its CEO from continuing to sell stalkerware BrakTooth...

FBI warns of ransomware attacks against Food and Agriculture sectors

By Deeba Ahmed According to the agency, the impact of these ransomware attacks can be devastating for both small to big businesses. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: FBI warns of ransomware attacks against Food and Agriculture sectors...

LockFile Ransomware Bypasses Protection Using Intermittent File Encryption

A new ransomware family that emerged last month comes with its own bag of tricks to bypass ransomware protection by leveraging a novel technique called "intermittent encryption." Called LockFile, the operators of the ransomware have been found exploiting recently disclosed flaws such as ProxyShel...

FBI Releases Indicators of Compromise Associated with Hive Ransomware

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has released a Flash report detailing indicators of compromise IOCs and tactics, techniques, and procedures TTPs associated with ransomware attacks by Hive, a likely Ransomware-as-a-Service organization consisting of a number of actors using multiple...

FBI Releases Indicators of Compromise Associated with OnePercent Group Ransomware

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has released a Flash report detailing indicators of compromise IOCs associated with ransomware attacks by the OnePercent Group, a cyber-criminal organization known since November 2020 for using Cobalt Strike in phishing attacks against U.S. companies. CISA...