Hunt.io traced BraZetsu ‘s infrastructure and found that hosting patterns and certificate data remained useful after published IOCs became outdated. Group-IB researchers published a detailed writeup on BraZetsu back on August 31, naming it a Python framework compiled with Nuitka and tying it to a Brazilian actor called Exilware with high confidence. Hunt.io checked whether […]
MonsterCloud owner Zohar Pinhasi allegedly paid ransomware demands behind clients’ backs, then charged them millions for the supposed recovery. Zohar Pinhasi, the owner of Florida-based MonsterCloud, was charged this week with wire fraud. Federal prosecutors say his clients were scammed twice during the same ransomware crisis. Pinhasi (50) also used the names “Zack Silver” and […]
FBI and Secret Service warn FortiBleed, a credential-harvesting campaign against Fortinet firewalls, has compromised 86,644 devices and is locking out admins. The FBI and the U.S. Secret Service issued a joint advisory about FortiBleed, and the headline number alone is worth sitting with: more than 86,644 compromised Fortinet FortiGate devices across 194 countries, according to […]
Accenture lost an FBI contract after a missed security patch exposed sensitive employee data, raising serious concerns over operational security. The FBI pulled an Accenture contractor off its account on Monday, and the reason is almost mundane compared to the damage it caused. One update didn’t get installed on time. “The Federal Bureau of Investigation […]
Hackers accessed names, addresses and CPR numbers of 8.8 million people in Denmark through a third-party company with legal registry access. A hacker broke into the database that holds basically every identifying detail on every person connected to Denmark, living, dead, or long since moved away. Denmark’s digital affairs minister announced it Monday and didn’t […]
Iranian hacker Amir Barati faces extradition to the US over an alleged Iranian campaign that stole 31TB of data from universities. Amir Barati spent June 25 getting arrested in Montenegro, and this week a Montenegrin court signed off on sending him to the United States. He’s a dual Turkish and Iranian citizen, 40 years old, […]
A suspected ShinyHunters member arrested in Jordan is reportedly cooperating with the FBI, helping investigators track down the group. A suspected member of ShinyHunters, the group that claims to have stolen data on every FBI employee, was picked up in Jordan this week. The man is Saif al-Din Khader, detained by Jordanian authorities, with two […]
Jamf Threat Labs details CloudSyncD, a fake macOS Zoom installer that hides a phished password using invisible zero-width Unicode characters. Jamf Threat Labs found CloudSyncD while doing routine scanning on VirusTotal, buried inside a disguised Zoom client. They first spotted it on September 15, clearly still under construction, and within two days watched it move […]
Operation KillSwitch: Europol says the KillSec ransomware group, allegedly led by a 16-year-old, was dismantled after attacks on about 1,000 victims. Law enforcement seized control of KillSec ‘s dark web leak site, the Tor website the group used to threaten victims with publishing stolen files unless they paid up. That single action locked down more […]
Threat actors abused fake ChatGPT Custom GPTs and ClickFix to deliver a multi-stage RAT. ChatGPT’s Custom GPT feature is the latest legitimate surface being turned into a delivery mechanism, and Huntress researchers caught it in action across at least 40 incidents. A Custom GPT (now simply called a GPT) is essentially a version of ChatGPT […]