Cyber Crime

Flaws in Social Warfare plugin actively exploited in the wild

Experts uncovered hacking campaigns exploiting two critical security vulnerabilities in the popular WordPress plugin Social Warfare. Social Warfare is a…

7 years ago

Security Affairs newsletter Round 210 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Kindle Edition…

7 years ago

Marcus Hutchins pleads guilty to two counts of banking malware creation

British malware researcher Marcus Hutchins has pleaded guilty to developing and sharing the banking malware between July 2014 and July…

7 years ago

Operator of Codeshop Cybercrime Marketplace Sentenced to 90 months in prison

Djevair Ametovski was sentenced to 90 months in prison for operating an international cybercrime marketplace named Codeshop. Macedonian national Djevair…

7 years ago

Russian TA505 threat actor target financial entities worldwide

Russian financially motivated threat actor TA505 used remote access Trojans (RATs) in attacks on financial entities in the United States…

7 years ago

Scranos – A Cross Platform, Rootkit-Enabled Spyware rapidly spreading

Scranos is a powerful cross-platform rootkit-enabled spyware discovered while investigating malware posing as legitimate software like video players, drivers and…

7 years ago

Romanian duo convicted of fraud Scheme infecting 400,000 computers

Two Romanian hackers are convicted of infecting 400,000 computers in the U.S. with malicious code and stole millions of dollars…

7 years ago

Malware campaign uses multiple propagation methods, including EternalBlue

Hackers are using the EternalBlue exploit and leveraging advantage of Living off the Land (LotL) obfuscated PowerShell-based scripts to deliver…

7 years ago

[SI-LAB] EMOTET spread in Chile impacted hundreds of users and targeted financial and banking services

EMOTET spread in Chile targeted financial and banking services. SI-LAB detected hundreds of users that were impacted by this malware…

7 years ago

Gulf countries came under hackers’ spotlight in 2018, with more than 130 000 payment cards compromised

Bahrain, 08.04.2019 – Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks, and NGN International, a global system integrator, analyzed cybersecurity…

7 years ago

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