Collaborate Disseminate
Oleksandr Didenko ran laptop farms and provided forged or stolen identities to North Korean operatives who gained remote employment at 40 U.S. businesses.
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Matthew Akande was living in Mexico when he and at least four co-conspirators broke into the networks of tax preparation firms and filed more than 1,000 fraudulent tax returns seeking tax refunds.
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Google researchers said Chinese attackers have been exploiting a zero-day since mid-2024, and they’ve moved on to a more advanced version of Brickstorm malware called Grimbolt.
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The 47-year-old man, who was not identified, faces up to five years in prison for producing, obtaining and sharing computer programs used to conduct cyberattacks.
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Palo Alto Network’s incident response firm said identity-based attacks are exploding as poor security controls stretch across a widening mosaic of integrated tools and systems.
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The vendor said the memory-corruption defect was exploited to target specific people, but it did not describe the objectives of the attack.
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Most signs suggest the group is running a massive hoax by claiming hundreds of initial victims, but at least some of the threat 0APT poses is grounded in truth backed by proven capabilities.
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Microsoft said three of the exploited vulnerabilities were publicly known, suggesting attackers already had details about the defects prior to Tuesday’s release.
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Shadowserver scans have identified 86 compromised instances, and researchers warn multiple threat groups are involved.
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Authorities have arrested multiple members of 764 during the past year, reflecting heightened law enforcement activity targeting the violent extremist collective.
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