Author Archives: Jeff Peters

HBO was among the week’s top trending cybercrime targets as malicious actors claimed to have stolen 1.5 terabytes of company data and subsequently leaked upcoming episodes of “Ballers,” “Room 104,” “Insecure,” and the unaired comedy “Barry,” which is scheduled to air in 2018. The hackers also leaked the script for Sunday night’s episode of Game… Read More Continue reading Weekly Cyber Risk Roundup: HBO Hackers Promise More Leaks and Dark Web Vendors Reuse Passwords→

The Italian bank UniCredit was among the week’s top trending cybercrime targets after the bank announced it had been the victim of two separate data breaches affecting approximately 400,000 customers who had taken out personal loans. The first breach occurred between September and October 2016, and the second breach occurred between June and July 2017,… Read More Continue reading Weekly Cyber Risk Roundup: UniCredit Breach and Two Swedish Officials Resign→

Leaked exploits and increased cybercrime-as-a-service offerings — along with the expanding digital footprints of organizations — helped to fuel cybercrime in the first half of 2017, according to a mid-year threat intelligence report from SurfWatch Labs. The global outbreaks of WannaCry and NotPetya have dominated headlines so far this year. Although vastly different from the record-setting,… Read More Continue reading Leaked Exploits Have Fueled Cybercrime So Far in 2017, Says New Report→

The cryptocurrency Ethereum made numerous headlines this past week due to three separate multi-million dollar thefts: one due to a bug in the code of the Parity Ethereum client, one caused by a website hack that redirected funds meant for the Initial Coin Offering (ICO) of Coindash, and one tied to a hacker managing to… Read More Continue reading Weekly Cyber Risk Roundup: Three Ethereum Heists and NotPetya Fallout Continues→

On Thursday morning, the Department of Justice, Europol, and Dutch authorities announced a coordinated law enforcement takedown of AlphaBay and Hansa Market, two of the three largest dark web marketplaces used to buy and sell illicit goods and services. AlphaBay has been offline since July 5, the same day that founder Alexander Cazes was arrested… Read More Continue reading AlphaBay and Hansa Brought Down by Basic Mistakes, Indictment Reveals→

Cryptocurrency theft was among the week’s top trending cybercrime practices due to users at both South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb and Classic Ether Wallet reporting that their digital currency wallets were emptied due to cyber-attacks. Bithumb reported that one of its employees personal computers had been hacked in February 2017 and that the personal details… Read More Continue reading Weekly Cyber Risk Roundup: Cryptocurrency Wallets Emptied and a Dozen Power Plants Breached→

Ransomware made headlines this past week due to several infections that disrupted business operations, as well as a million dollar extortion payment that was negotiated by South Korean web hosting firm Nayana after its servers were infected with Erebus Ransomware on June 10. Nayana said the payment was necessary to restore 150 servers and the… Read More Continue reading Weekly Cyber Risk Roundup: Million Dollar Extortion Payments and TheDarkOverlord Loses Credibility→