Global police operation strikes against malware infrastructure 

‘Operation Endgame’ targeted well-known malware variants used to facilitate ransomware and other serious cybercrime.

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Identity-related incidents becoming severe, costing organizations a fortune

With the rise of identity sprawl and system complexity, more businesses are suffering identity-related incidents than ever before, according to IDSA. Identity-related incidents in headlines Identity-related incidents continue to dominate today’s headli… Continue reading Identity-related incidents becoming severe, costing organizations a fortune

Chinese national arrested for operating proxy service linked to billions in cybercrime 

YunHe Wang and two associates were also sanctioned by the Treasury Department in operation to install malware on users’ computers.

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Russian influence op keeps trying but struggles to win hearts and minds

Meta researchers said the influence operation known as Doppelganger continues to target European elections and Ukraine policy with little impact.

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RansomLord: Open-source anti-ransomware exploit tool

RansomLord is an open-source tool that automates the creation of PE files, which are used to exploit ransomware pre-encryption. “I created RansomLord to demonstrate ransomware is not invincible, has vulnerabilities and its developers make mistake… Continue reading RansomLord: Open-source anti-ransomware exploit tool

Potent youth cybercrime ring made up of 1,000 people, FBI official says

The group known as Scattered Spider is one of the most impactful cybercrime groups working today and has proven elusive to law enforcement so far.  

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US retailers under attack by gift card-thieving cyber gang

Earlier this month, the FBI published a private industry notification about Storm-0539 (aka Atlas Lion), a Morocco-based cyber criminal group that specializes in compromising retailers and creating fraudulent gift cards. Microsoft then went more in-dep… Continue reading US retailers under attack by gift card-thieving cyber gang

Moroccan cybercrime group impersonates nonprofits and abuses cloud services to rake in gift card cash

Microsoft researchers say the group, tracked as Storm-0539 or Atlas Lion, targets employees with major U.S. retailers who control gift card operations.

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