Collaborate Disseminate
Things just got serious. Business Email Compromise is no longer solely the province of chancers and opportunistic Nigerian actors such as the Yahoo Boys. Organised criminal gangs with a high level of professionalism have seen the opportunity and seized… Continue reading Cosmic Lynx: The Highly-Professional Cybercrime Gang Scamming Businesses Out of Millions of Dollars
Security researchers detected a new variant of the Joker spyware family that had infiltrated Google Play and had begun abusing an old trick to target users. Check Point Research found that the authors of Joker, a dropper and premium dialer spyware, had… Continue reading Joker Spyware Infiltrated Google Play, Abused Old Trick to Target Users
A Nigerian national entered into the custody of the FBI to face charges of having targeted several U.S. companies with business email compromise (BEC) scams. On July 3, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois announced th… Continue reading Nigerian National Extradited to United States on BEC Scam Charges
If the global cybercrime forecast took the form of a weather report, it might go something like this: The extended outlook calls for continued online lawlessness, scattered malware attacks and an ongoing blizzard of data breaches. After all, with exper… Continue reading Entry-Level Career Advice for Aspiring Cybersecurity Professionals
Hackers are once again finding unsecured MongoDB databases carelessly left exposed on the internet, wiping their contents, and leaving a ransom note demanding a cryptocurrency payment for the data’s safe return. As ZDNet reports, ransom notes hav… Continue reading 22,900 MongoDB Databases Held to Ransom by Hacker Threatening to Report Firms for GDPR Violations
Security researchers spotted Trickbot malware checking the screen resolution as a means of evading analysis on a virtual machine (VM). Digital security firm MalwareLab came across a sample of the trojan that checked to see whether a computer’s sc… Continue reading Trickbot Malware Using Screen Resolution Checks as Anti-VM Tactic
Security researchers detected a new ransomware strain that leveraged piracy as a means of distributing itself to Mac users. On June 29, a Twitter user reached out to Malwarebytes about a malicious Little Snitch installer that was available for download… Continue reading New Mac Ransomware Leveraged Piracy as Means of Distribution
Security researchers identified a string of attacks in which malicious actors attempted to target dozens of U.S. organizations with WastedLocker ransomware. Symantec detected the attack attempts on several of its customers’ networks. As part of t… Continue reading Attackers Targeted Dozens of U.S. Companies with WastedLocker
The European GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is one of the most influential consumer privacy laws that has affected 500,000 companies throughout the world. This law has played a crucial role in formulating another substantial privacy law know… Continue reading What to Expect from Brazil’s New Data Protection Law
A Vancouver man received a federal prison sentence for his involvement in developing several distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnets. On June 25, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Alaska announced that Chief U.S. District Judge … Continue reading Vancouver Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Developing DDoS Botnets