Collaborate Disseminate
When it comes to the cyber threat landscape, change is the only constant: the inevitable interplay between cybercriminals and law enforcement agencies makes it inevitable. Europol’s recently released Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IO… Continue reading The changes in the cyber threat landscape in the last 12 months
This is pretty horrific:
…a group of men behind a violent crime spree designed to compel victims to hand over access to their cryptocurrency savings. That announcement and the criminal complaint laying out charges against St. Felix focused largely on a single theft of cryptocurrency from an elderly North Carolina couple, whose home St. Felix and one of his accomplices broke into before physically assaulting the two victims—both in their seventies—and forcing them to transfer more than $150,000 in Bitcoin and Ether to the thieves’ crypto wallets…
Continue reading Criminal Gang Physically Assaulting People for Their Cryptocurrency
Researchers say the wallets that received the large bitcoin payment are tied to BlackSuit affiliates.
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Continue reading Wallets tied to CDK ransom group received $25 million two days after attack
The 2022 Medibank data breach / extortion attack perpetrated by the REvil ransomware group started by the attackers leveraging login credentials stolen from a private computer of an employee of a Medibank’s IT contractor. According to a statement… Continue reading Medibank breach: Security failures revealed (lack of MFA among them)
Apple announces a new privacy feature in iOS that will allow you to hide and lock away your apps – but will be philanderers who benefit the most? And an ex-police officer is arrested for extortion. Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #376: iOS 18 for cheaters, and a model cop extortionist?
The impact of the operation targeting customers of the cloud storage giant continues to grow.
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LendingTree subsidiary QuoteWizard and automotive parts provider Advance Auto Parts have been revealed as victims of attackers who are trying to sell data stolen from Snowflake-hosted cloud databases. Snowflake says that their investigation is still on… Continue reading The number of known Snowflake customer data breaches is rising
Snowflake is disputing claims made by a threat actor who stole data belonging to Santander and Ticketmaster, and maintains that the theft of customer data was the result of stolen customer login credentials. “We are aware of recent reports relate… Continue reading Snowflake denies breach, blames data theft on poorly secured customer accounts
Snowflake is disputing claims made by a threat actor who stole data belonging to Santander and Ticketmaster, and maintains that the theft of customer data was the result of stolen customer login credentials. “We are aware of recent reports relate… Continue reading Snowflake denies breach, blames data theft on poorly secured customer accounts
Have attackers compromised Snowflake or just their customers’ accounts and databases? Conflicting claims muddy the situation. What is Snowflake? Snowflake is cloud-based data storage and analytics company based in the US, and claims nearly 9,500 … Continue reading Snowflake compromised? Attackers exploit stolen credentials