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Active since 2016, FIN8 continues to refine its financially-motivated attacks with an updated backdoor and ransomware to extort victims.
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By Deeba Ahmed
In its latest attack, FIN8 is infiltrating companies to carry out surveillance and obtain privilege escalation to deploy a payload of malware called Sardonic.
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Paying at the pump has landed in the sights of the notorious PoS-skimming group. Continue reading FIN8 Targets Card Data at Fuel Pumps
A well-known criminal hacking group tried to breach the computer network of a U.S. hotel using a variant of malware the group had last deployed in 2017, according to research from endpoint security firm Morphisec. FIN8, as the financially-driven group is known, made several upgrades to its ShellTea malware, aiming it at the network of the hotel between March and May, according to Morphisec. Researchers believe it was an attempted attack on a point-of-sale POS) system, or one that processes payment card data. The intrustion attempt was blocked. In a blog post published Monday, Morphisec warned of the vulnerability of POS networks to groups like FIN8. “Many POS networks are running on the POS version of Window 7, making them more susceptible to vulnerabilities,” wrote Morphisec CTO Michael Gorelik. “The techniques implemented can easily evade standard POS defenses.” The research did not identify the hotel by name or specificy its location, […]
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