Cyber Crime

Attackers took over the Perl.com domain in September 2020

The Perl.com domain was hijacked in January, but a senior editor at the site revealed that the hackers took control of…

5 years ago

Distributor of Asian food JFC International hit by Ransomware

JFC International, a major wholesaler and distributor of Asian food products in the United States, was hit by ransomware. JFC…

5 years ago

Gootkit delivery platform Gootloader used to deliver additional payloads

The Javascript-based infection framework for the Gootkit RAT was enhanced to deliver a wider variety of malware, including ransomware. Experts…

5 years ago

Hotarus Corp gang hacked Ecuador’s Ministry of Finance and Banco Pichincha

'Hotarus Corp' Ransomware operators hacked Ecuador's largest private bank, Banco Pichincha, and the country's Ministry of Finance. ​A cybercrime group…

5 years ago

Hackers are selling access to Biochemical systems at Oxford University Lab

Hackers have broken into the biochemical systems of an Oxford University lab where researchers are working on the study of…

5 years ago

Dutch Research Council (NWO) confirms DoppelPaymer ransomware attack

Dutch Research Council (NWO) confirmed that the recent cyberattack that forced it to take its servers offline was caused by…

5 years ago

North Korea-linked Lazarus APT targets defense industry with ThreatNeedle backdoor

North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group has targeted the defense industry with the custom-backdoor dubbed ThreatNeedle since 2020. North Korea-linked Lazarus…

5 years ago

A Cryptomining botnet abuses Bitcoin blockchain transactions as C2 backup mechanism

Crooks are exploiting BTC blockchain transactions to hide backup command-and-control (C2) server addresses for a cryptomining botnet. Security experts from…

5 years ago

Airplane manufacturer Bombardier has disclosed a security breach, data leaked online

Hackers posted data stolen from manufacturer of business jets Bombardier on Clop ransomware leak site following alleged FTA hack. Hackers…

5 years ago

FIN11 cybercrime group is behind recent wave of attacks on FTA servers

FireEye experts linked a series of attacks targeting Accellion File Transfer Appliance (FTA) servers to the cybercrime group UNC2546, aka…

5 years ago

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