EventHunter: Dynamic Clustering and Ranking of Security Events from Hacker Forum Discussions

Hacker forums provide critical early warning signals for emerging cybersecurity threats, but extracting actionable intelligence from their unstructured and noisy content remains a significant challenge. This paper presents an unsupervised framework that automatically detects, clusters, and...

A Rebirth of a Cursed Existence? Examining ‘Babuk Locker 2.0’ Ransomware

Co-authored by Yaniv Allender and Anna Sirokova Introduction Ransomware remains a major threat, causing significant disruption and financial losses to organizations across various sectors. Cybercriminal groups behind these attacks constantly adapt their methods to maximize damage and profit. At...

SASE Threat Report: 8 Key Findings for Enterprise Security

Threat actors are evolving, yet Cyber Threat Intelligence CTI remains confined to each isolated point solution. Organizations require a holistic analysis across external data, inbound and outbound threats and network activity. This will enable evaluating the true state of cybersecurity in the...

Syrian Hackers Distributing Stealthy C#-Based Silver RAT to Cybercriminals

Threat actors operating under the name Anonymous Arabic have released a remote access trojan RAT called Silver RAT that's equipped to bypass security software and stealthily launch hidden applications. "The developers operate on multiple hacker forums and social media platforms, showcasing an...

Hackers Claiming to Jailbreak AI Chatbots to Write Phishing Emails

By Deeba Ahmed Cybercriminals on multiple hacker forums claim to jailbreak AI chatbots to write malicious content, including phishing emails, a new report from SlashNext has revealed. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers Claiming to Jailbreak AI Chatbots to Write...

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...

Hackers leak DC Health Link data with Congress Members’ details

By Habiba Rashid The data contains personal and medical details of several members of the U.S. Congress, which are now circulating on Russian hacker forums as well as on Telegram groups. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers leak DC Health Link data with Congress Member...

Lawmakers Probe Early Release of Top RU Cybercrook

Aleksei Burkov, seated second from right, attends a hearing in Jerusalem in 2015. Image: Andrei Shirokov / Tass via Getty Images. Aleksei Burkov, a cybercriminal who long operated two of Russias most exclusive underground hacking forums, was arrested in 2015 by Israeli authorities. The Russian...

The Wages of Password Re-use: Your Money or Your Life

When normal computer users fall into the nasty habit of recycling passwords, the result is most often some type of financial loss. When cybercriminals develop the same habit, it can eventually cost them their freedom. Our passwords can say a lot about us, and much of what they have to say is...

Top Russian hacker forums Maza, Verified hacked; data leaked online

By Waqas It is unclear who hacked these forums but insider discussion believes government authorities were behind the attack as a "friendly warning" message. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Top Russian hacker forums Maza, Verified hacked; data leaked online...

Cyber criminals leak Pfizer, BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine data

By Waqas The leaked vaccine data is now circulating on hacker forums including Russian-speaking ones. Here's what was leaked and some exclusive screenshots. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Cyber criminals leak Pfizer, BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine data...

This Week in Security News: 15 Billion Credentials Currently Up for Grabs on Hacker Forums and New Mirai Variant Expands Arsenal

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, read about how fifteen billion usernames and passwords for a range of internet services are currently for sale on underground forums. Also,...

Hackers Sell Data from 26 Million LiveJournal Users on Dark Web

A database containing credentials from more than 26 million LiveJournal accounts has been leaked online and is being sold on the Dark Web and hacker forums. The data contained in the files appears to be from a 2014 incident in which 33 million accounts were hacked, according to a published report...

Police arrests man for selling massive combolists on hacker forums

By Deeba Ahmed According to police, the hacker also compiled Collection 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and Antipublic combolist. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Police arrests man for selling massive combolists on hacker forums...

Troves of Zoom Credentials Shared on Hacker Forums

Hackers have a new favorite topic of conversation on underground forums: How to obtain – and leverage – valuable credentials for Zoom, Skype, Webex and other web conferencing platforms increasingly used by remote workers. That’s what Etay Maor, chief security officer at IntSights, has discovered...

Use of ‘StegWare’ Increases in Stealth Malware Attacks

SAN FRANCISCO – Researchers are warning of an uptick in the malicious use of steganography as a vehicle for delivering malware. Steganography, they say, is increasingly becoming a go-to tool for cybercriminals not just for infection, but also command-and-control, data exfiltration and as an...

Christopher Ahlberg on Tracking Hackers Through Patterns Across Forums

Threatpost editor Mike Mimoso talks with Christopher Ahlberg, CEO, Recorded Future about tracking cybercriminals through patterns on hacker forums...

Georgia Tech Releases BlackForest Threat Intelligence Tool

Enterprises longing for an automated system that sends up a smoke signal that attackers may be planning a move against a particular organization or are promoting a new tool that targets companies in a specific industry may have had their wish come true. Georgia Tech Research Institute has release...

Anonymous Surpasses Wikileaks !

The exploits of Anonymous to hack the systems of firms providing spying services to governments and corporations suggest that the WikiLeaks mini-era has been surpassed. Much of WikiLeaks promise to protect sources is useless if the sources are not whistleblowers needing a forum for publication...

Details PandaLabs Cyber-criminal Black Market Report !

PandaLabs researchers published an investigative look at the growing online crime, cyber black market where it sold the stolen credit card information and other data stolen more than 50 shops, mostly online. PandaLabs clues about how the black market of cybercrime has diversified and now sells a...