Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini December 19, 2022
US Gov warns of BEC attacks to hijack shipments of food products

US government is warning of business email compromise (BEC) attacks aimed at hijacking shipments of food products and ingredients. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations (FDA OCI), and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) have published a joint security advisory to warn of business email compromise […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 19, 2022
Glupteba botnet is back after Google disrupted it in December 2021

The Glupteba botnet is back, researchers reported a surge in infection worldwide after Google disrupted its operation in 2021. In December 2021, Google announced it has taken down the infrastructure operated by the Glupteba botnet, it also sued Russian nationals Dmitry Starovikov and Alexander Filippov for creating and operating the botnet. The blockchain-enabled botnet has been […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 18, 2022
Fire and rescue service in Victoria, Australia, confirms cyber attack

The fire and rescue service in the state of Victoria, Australia, has shut down its network and turned to operating manually after a cyberattack. The fire and rescue service in the state of Victoria (FRV), Australia, has shut down its network after a cyber attack launched by “an external third party.”  Fire Rescue Victoria acting […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2022
Social Blade discloses security breach

Social media analytics service Social Blade disclosed a security breach after a database containing allegedly stolen data from the company was offered for sale. Social Blade is an American social media analytics platform, the company disclosed the security breach after a database containing company data was offered for sale on a hacker forum this week. “On December 14th […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2022
Data of 5.7M Gemini users available for sale on hacking forums

Gemini crypto exchange warns users of an ongoing phishing campaign after a third-party vendor suffered a security breach. Gemini crypto exchange is warning of phishing campaigns targeting its users after a threat actor obtained their data by breaching a third-party vendor. The company pointed out that its systems were not impacted. “Some Gemini customers have […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2022
MCCrash botnet targets private Minecraft servers, Microsoft warns

Microsoft announced that a botnet dubbed MCCrash is launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against private Minecraft servers. Microsoft spotted a cross-platform botnet, tracked as MCCrash, which has been designed to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against private Minecraft servers. The IT giant tracks this cluster of activity as DEV-1028. The experts report that the botnet […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 15, 2022
Database of the FBI’s InfraGard US Critical Infrastructure Intelligence portal available for sale

The portal of the FBI’s InfraGard US Critical Infrastructure Intelligence was hacked, and data is available for sale on a cybercrime forum. InfraGard is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and members of the private sector for the protection of U.S. Critical Infrastructure. Through seamless collaboration, InfraGard connects owners and operators within […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 15, 2022
FBI seized 48 domains linked to DDoS-for-Hire service platforms

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) seized forty-eight domains that offered DDoS-for-Hire Service Platforms to crooks. The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) this week announced the seizure of 48 domains associated with the DDoS-for-Hire Service platforms (aka Booter services) used by threat actors. Below is the list of domains seized by the FBI: The authorities […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 15, 2022
Crooks use HTML smuggling to spread QBot malware via SVG files

Talos researchers uncovered a phishing campaign distributing the QBot malware to Windows systems using SVG files. Talos researchers uncovered a phishing campaign distributing the QBot malware using a new technique that leverages Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) images embedded in HTML email attachments. HTML smuggling is a highly evasive technique for malware delivery that leverages legitimate HTML5 […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 14, 2022
GoTrim botnet actively brute forces WordPress and OpenCart sites

Researchers discovered a new Go-based botnet, dubbed GoTrim, attempting to brute force WordPress websites. Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researchers spotted a new Go-based botnet, dubbed GoTrim, that has been spotted scanning and brute-forcing WordPress and OpenCart websites. The botnet was named GoTrim because it was written in Go and uses “:::trim:::” to split data sent and received […]