WordPress Woo Manage Fraud Orders plugin <= 6.1.7 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability

Reflected Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability discovered by Colin Xu in WordPress Plugin Woo Manage Fraud Orders versions = 6.1.7...

TrickMo Banking Trojan Can Now Capture Android PINs and Unlock Patterns

New variants of an Android banking trojan called TrickMo have been found to harbor previously undocumented features to steal a device's unlock pattern or PIN. "This new addition enables the threat actor to operate on the device even while it is locked," Zimperium security researcher Aazim Yaswant...

WordPress Woo Manage Fraud Orders Plugin <= 6.1.7 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

Software Woo Manage Fraud Orders Type Plugin Vulnerable versions = 6.1.7 Fixed in N/A OWASP Top 10 A7: Cross-Site Scripting XSS Classification Cross Site Scripting XSS CVE CVE-2024-9937 Patch priority Medium CVSS severity Medium 7.1 Developer Claim ownership PSID b7c2dd37dba5 Credits Colin Xu...

FBI Creates Fake Cryptocurrency to Expose Widespread Crypto Market Manipulation

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ has announced arrests and charges against several individuals and entities in connection with allegedly manipulating digital asset markets as part of a widespread fraud operation. The law enforcement action – codenamed Operation Token Mirrors – is the result of...

IronNet Has Shut Down

After retiring in 2014 from an uncharacteristically long tenure running the NSA and US CyberCommand, Keith Alexander founded a cybersecurity company called IronNet. At the time, he claimed that it was based on IP he developed on his own time while still in the military. That always troubled me...

Microsoft Detects Growing Use of File Hosting Services in Business Email Compromise Attacks

Microsoft is warning of cyber attack campaigns that abuse legitimate file hosting services such as SharePoint, OneDrive, and Dropbox that are widely used in enterprise environments as a defense evasion tactic. The end goal of the campaigns are broad and varied, allowing threat actors to compromis...

Google Blocks Unsafe Android App Sideloading in India for Improved Fraud Protection

Google has announced that it's piloting a new security initiative that automatically blocks sideloading of potentially unsafe Android apps in India, after similar tests in Singapore, Thailand, and Brazil. The enhanced fraud protection feature aims to keep users safe when they attempt to install...

U.S. and Microsoft Seize 107 Russian Domains in Major Cyber Fraud Crackdown

Microsoft and the U.S. Department of Justice DoJ on Thursday announced the seizure of 107 internet domains used by state-sponsored threat actors with ties to Russia to facilitate computer fraud and abuse in the country. "The Russian government ran this scheme to steal Americans' sensitive...

INTERPOL Arrests 8 in Major Phishing and Romance Fraud Crackdown in West Africa

INTERPOL has announced the arrest of eight individuals in Côte d'Ivoire and Nigeria as part of a crackdown on phishing scams and romance cyber fraud. Dubbed Operation Contender 2.0, the initiative is designed to tackle cyber-enabled crimes in West Africa, the agency said. One such threat involved...

Fake Trading Apps Target Victims Globally via Apple App Store and Google Play

A large-scale fraud campaign leveraged fake trading apps published on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, as well as phishing sites, to defraud victims, per findings from Group-IB. The campaign is part of a consumer investment fraud scheme that's also widely known as pig butchering, in whi...

U.K. Hacker Charged in $3.75 Million Insider Trading Scheme Using Hacked Executive Emails

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ has charged a 39-year-old U.K. national for perpetrating a hack-to-trade fraud scheme that netted him nearly $3.75 million in illegal profits. Robert Westbrook of London was arrested last week and is expected to be extradited to the U.S. to face charges related ...

U.S. Sanctions Two Crypto Exchanges for Facilitating Cybercrime and Money Laundering

The U.S. government on Thursday sanctioned two cryptocurrency exchanges and unsealed an indictment against a Russian national for his alleged involvement in the operation of several money laundering services that were offered to cybercriminals. The virtual currency exchanges, Cryptex and PM2BTC,...

Timeshare Owner? The Mexican Drug Cartels Want You

The FBI is warning timeshare owners to be wary of a prevalent telemarketing scam involving a violent Mexican drug cartel that tries to trick people into believing someone wants to buy their property. This is the story of a couple who recently lost more than $50,000 to an ongoing timeshare scam th...

Binance Warns of Rising Clipper Malware Attacks Targeting Cryptocurrency Users

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is warning of an "ongoing" global threat that's targeting cryptocurrency users with clipper malware with the goal of facilitating financial fraud. Clipper malware, also called ClipBankers, is a type of malware that Microsoft calls cryware, which comes with...

TrickMo Android Trojan Exploits Accessibility Services for On-Device Banking Fraud

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new variant of an Android banking trojan called TrickMo that comes packed with new capabilities to evade analysis and display fake login screens to capture victims' banking credentials. "The mechanisms include using malformed ZIP files in combination wit...

Chinese DragonRank Hackers Exploit Global Windows Servers in SEO Fraud

DragonRank, a Chinese-speaking hacking group, has compromised 30+ Windows servers globally. They exploit IIS vulnerabilities to manipulate SEO…...

DragonRank Black Hat SEO Campaign Targeting IIS Servers Across Asia and Europe

A "simplified Chinese-speaking actor" has been linked to a new campaign that has targeted multiple countries in Asia and Europe with the end goal of performing search engine optimization SEO rank manipulation. The black hat SEO cluster has been codenamed DragonRank by Cisco Talos, with victimolog...

Man Faces 20 Years in Prison for First-Ever AI Music Streaming Scam

A North Carolina man has been arrested in the first criminal case involving AI-generated music streaming fraud. Accused…...

FBI Cracks Down on Dark Web Marketplace Managed by Russian and Kazakh Nationals

Two men have been indicted in the U.S. for their alleged involvement in managing a dark web marketplace called WWH Club that specializes in the sale of sensitive personal and financial information. Alex Khodyrev, a 35-year-old Kazakhstan national, and Pavel Kublitskii, a 37-year-old Russian...

How to avoid election related scams

With the US election campaigns at full throttle, scammers have taken a renewed interest in the ways this can be used to defraud people, often using the same tactics legitimate campaigns leverage for support emails, text messages, phone calls, and social media pleas. The lure that we have seen the...