2023 Ransomware Stats: A Look Back To Plan Ahead

Last year was not a year for the faint of heart. Organizations of every size found themselves faced with ransomware attacks at varying levels of sophistication, yet every one of them was damaging. And as we step into 2024, the first victims of ransomware attacks are already being reported. What c...

Scanning Danger: Unmasking the Threats of Quishing

Scanning Danger: Unmasking the Threats of Quishing By Shyava Tripathi, Raghav Kapoor and Rohan Shah · December 07, 2023 Phishing, a prevalent cybercrime worldwide, is responsible for as much as 90 percent of data breaches, making it a significant avenue for the theft of sensitive credentials and...

The Alarming Rise of Infostealers: How to Detect this Silent Threat

A new study conducted by Uptycs has uncovered a stark increase in the distribution of information stealing a.k.a. infostealer or stealer malware. Incidents have more than doubled in Q1 2023, indicating an alarming trend that threatens global organizations. According to the new Uptycs' whitepaper,...

Read The Manual Locker: A Private RaaS Provider

Read The Manual Locker: A Private RaaS Provider By Trellix · April 13, 2023 This blog was written by Max Kersten The underground intelligence was obtained byN074B07. Another day, another ransomware-as-a-service RaaS provider, or so it seems. We’ve observed the “Read The Manual” RTM Locker gang,...

Trend Micro Partners With Interpol and Nigeria’s EFCC for Operation Killer Bee, Takes Down Nigerian BEC Actors

Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC arrested three suspected scammers from Nigeria who were involved in global scamming campaigns via a sting operation that is part of Operation Killer Bee. Trend Micro provided information on the group and their modus operandi...

Karakurt Ensnares Conti, Diavol Ransomware Groups in Its Web

Researchers have found financial and technological links between the Karakurt cybercriminal group and two high-profile ransomware actors that signal a shift in business operations and an expansion of opportunities for the threat actors to target victims, they said. Karakurt—a financially motivate...

TrickBot Malware Abusing MikroTik Routers as Proxies for Command-and-Control

Microsoft on Wednesday detailed a previously undiscovered technique put to use by the TrickBot malware that involves using compromised Internet of Things IoT devices as a go-between for establishing communications with the command-and-control C2 servers. "By using MikroTik routers as proxy server...

TeaBot Android Banking Malware Spreads Again Through Google Play Store Apps

An Android banking trojan designed to steal credentials and SMS messages has been observed once again sneaking past Google Play Store protections to target users of more than 400 banking and financial apps, including those from Russia, China, and the U.S. "TeaBot RAT capabilities are achieved via...

Indian APT exposes its Modus Operandi by infecting their own devices

By Waqas The IT security researchers at Malwarebytes have published a report revealing details of an ironic incident involving Patchwork… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Indian APT exposes its Modus Operandi by infecting their own devices...

Gang stole credit card details of US Citizens !

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Engineering student arrested in Bhopal for hacking bank accounts !

An engineering student has been arrested in Bhopal for hacking third party bank accounts to book railway and air tickets, police said. Sunny Kumar 20, a student of private engineering college, was arrested by Cyber Cell police on Tuesday for hacking third party accounts for transferring cash to...

Bank Trojan Annoys Users With Pop Ups

Researchers recently came face to face with a Trojan with an aggressive modus operandi – it continually forces you to update your banking credentials with irritating pop up windows. Read the full article. Help Net Security...