JBS Paid $11M to REvil Gang Even After Restoring Operations

JBS Foods paid the equivalent of $11 million in ransom after a cyber-attack that forced the company to shut down some operations in the United States and Australia over the Memorial Day weekend. The company made the payment to cybercriminals to ensure the protection of its data and mitigate any...

800+ criminals arrested after FBI turned Anom app into honeypot

By Waqas The FBI took control of the encrypted communication platform Anom app in 2018 and transformed it into a large-scale honeypot. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 800+ criminals arrested after FBI turned Anom app into honeypot...

Feds Secretly Ran a Fake Encrypted Chat App and Busted Over 800 Criminals

In an unprecedented sting operation, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI and Australian Federal Police AFP ran an encrypted chat service called ANoM for nearly three years to intercept 27 million messages exchanged between criminal gang members globally. Dubbed Operation Ironside AFP,...

800 arrests after police dupe crime groups into using backdoored phones

An international operation that monitored an encrypted device company under control of the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI and the Australian Federal Police AFP has led to a massive, coordinated string by law enforcement in several countries. The setup Law enforcement agencies around the worl...

FBI recovers millions in ransom from DarkSide ransomware gang

By Deeba Ahmed The DarkSide ransomware gang was behind the attack on Colonial Pipeline, the largest fuel pipeline in the United States. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: FBI recovers millions in ransom from DarkSide ransomware gang...

U.S. Recovers $2.3 Million Ransom Paid to Colonial Pipeline Hackers

In a major blow, the U.S. Department of Justice on Monday said it has recovered 63.7 bitcoins currently valued at $2.3 million paid by Colonial Pipeline to the DarkSide ransomware extortionists on May 8, pursuant to a seizure warrant that was authorized by the Northern District of California. The...

FBI Claws Back Millions of DarkSide’s Ransom Profits

United States law enforcement has clawed back approximately $2.3 million of the ransom allegedly paid to DarkSide by Colonial Pipeline last month, the Department of Justice DOJ and FBI announced in a joint press conference on Monday. “Today we turned the tables on DarkSide,” FBI Deputy Director...

Can two VPN “wrongs” make a right? Lock and Code S02E10

This week on Lock and Code, were presenting you something a little different. Were telling you a story—with no guest interview included—that involves the use of VPNs. In 2016, a mid-20s man began an intense, prolonged harassment campaign against his new roommate. He emailed her from spoofed email...

The FBI’s Director Compares Ransomware Threat to 9/11

Plus, a Supreme Court decision on a controversial anti-hacking law, a WhatsApp walk-back, and more of the week’s top security news...

Sophisticated Spearphishing Campaign Targets Government Organizations, IGOs, and NGOs

Summary This Joint Cybersecurity Advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge ATT &CK® framework, Version 9. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise for all referenced threat actor tactics and techniques. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and the...

Joint CISA-FBI Cybersecurity Advisory on Sophisticated Spearphishing Campaign

CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI are responding to an ongoing spearphishing campaign targeting government organizations, intergovernmental organizations, and non-governmental organizations. A sophisticated cyber threat actor leveraged a compromised end-user account from Constant...

FBI Update on Exploitation of Fortinet FortiOS Vulnerabilities

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has released an FBI FLASH, APT Actors Exploiting Fortinet Vulnerabilities to Gain Access for Malicious Activity, which describes advanced persistent threat APT actors exploiting known Fortinet FortiOS vulnerabilities. APT actors may exploit these...

Insider threats: If it can happen to the FBI, it can happen to you

If you’re worried about the risk of insider threats, you’re not alone. It can affect anyone, even the FBI. A federal grand jury has just charged a former intelligence analyst with stealing confidential files from 2004 to 2017. That’s an incredible 13 years of “What are you doing with that pile of...

FBI Analyst Indicted for Theft of Osama bin Laden Threat Intel

An FBI analyst with top-secret security clearance illegally squirreled away national-security documents related to Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, cybersecurity and more in her home for years, the feds say. Kendra Kingsbury, who was working in the FBI’s Kansas City Division until being put on leave in...

FBI Analyst Charged With Stealing Counterterrorism and Cyber Threat Info

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ indicted an employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI for illegally removing numerous national security documents and willfully retaining them at her personal residence during a 13-year period from June 2004 to December 2017. The federal indictment...

FBI Warns Conti Ransomware Hit 16 U.S. Health and Emergency Services

The adversary behind Conti ransomware targeted no fewer than 16 healthcare and first responder networks in the U.S. within the past year, totally victimizing over 400 organizations worldwide, 290 of which are situated in the country. That's according to a new flash alert issued by the U.S. Federa...

How to Tell a Job Offer from an ID Theft Trap

One of the oldest scams around -- the fake job interview that seeks only to harvest your personal and financial data -- is on the rise, the FBI warns. Heres the story of a recent LinkedIn impersonation scam that led to more than 100 people getting duped, and one almost-victim who decided the job...

Fake ransom scams targeting families of missing persons

By Deeba Ahmed FBI has issued an alert to families of missing persons to watch out for fake ransom scams in which scammers collect information about missing people from social media. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Fake ransom scams targeting families of missing persons...

Pega Infinity patches authentication vulnerability

Security researchers came across a Pega Infinity vulnerability through participation in Apple’s bug bounty program, after focusing on vendors that supplied technology to Apple. By using Burp Suite—an integrated platform for performing security testing of web applications—the security researchers...

Update to CISA-FBI Joint Cybersecurity Advisory on DarkSide Ransomware

CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI have updated Joint Cybersecurity Advisory AA21-131A: DarkSide Ransomware: Best Practices for Preventing Disruption from Ransomware Attacks, originally released May 11, 2021. This update provides a downloadable STIX file of indicators of compromise...