Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini October 16, 2024
Brazil’s PolĂ­cia Federal arrested the notorious hacker USDoD

Brazil’s PolĂ­cia Federal has arrested hacker USDoD, the hacker behind the National Public Data and InfraGard breaches. Brazil’s PolĂ­cia Federal (PF) announced the arrest in Belo Horizonte/MG of the notorious hacker USDoD. In August, a CrowdStrike investigation revealed that the hacker USDoD (aka EquationCorp), who is known for high-profile data leaks, is a man from Brazil. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 16, 2024
Finnish Customs dismantled the dark web drugs market Sipulitie

Finnish Customs shut down the Tor darknet marketplace Sipulitie and seized the servers hosting the platform. Finnish Customs, with the help of Europol, Swedish and Polish law enforcement authorities and researchers at Bitdefender, shut down the Tor marketplace Sipulitie. “Finnish customs has closed the web servers of the Sipulitie marketplace, which has been operating on […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 14, 2024
Dutch police dismantled dual dark web market ‘Bohemia/Cannabia’

Dutch police dismantled Bohemia/Cannabia, two major dark web markets for illegal goods, drugs, and cybercrime services. The Dutch police have announced the success of a new joint law enforcement operation that led to the shutdown of the dual dark web marketplace Bohemia/Cannabia. These are two of the largest and longest-running dark web platforms for the […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 12, 2024
Ransomware operators exploited Veeam Backup & Replication flaw CVE-2024-40711 in recent attacks

Sophos reports ransomware operators are exploiting a critical code execution flaw in Veeam Backup & Replication. Sophos researchers warn that ransomware operators are exploiting the critical vulnerability CVE-2024-40711 in Veeam Backup & Replication to create rogue accounts and deploy malware. In early September 2024, Veeam released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities impacting its products, […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 10, 2024
E-skimming campaign uses Unicode obfuscation to hide the Mongolian Skimmer

Jscrambler researchers found a skimming campaign using unique JavaScript obfuscation with accented characters to hide a skimmer named Mongolian Skimmer. Jscrambler researchers uncovered a skimming campaign using unique JavaScript obfuscation with accented characters to hide a skimmer dubbed ‘Mongolian Skimmer.’ The attackers used unusual Unicode characters for variables and function names. The skimmer was named […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 09, 2024
Cybercriminals Are Targeting AI Conversational Platforms

Resecurity reports a rise in attacks on AI Conversational platforms, targeting chatbots that use NLP and ML to enable automated, human-like interactions with consumers. Resecurity has observed a spike in malicious campaigns targeting AI agents and Conversational AI platforms that leverage chatbots to provide automated, human-like interactions for consumers. Conversational AI platforms are designed to […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 08, 2024
Ukrainian national pleads guilty in U.S. court for operating the Raccoon Infostealer

Ukrainian national pleads guilty in U.S. court for operating the Raccoon Infostealer, used to steal sensitive data globally. Ukrainian national Mark Sokolovsky has pleaded guilty in a US court to operating the Raccoon Infostealer. In October 2020, the US Justice Department charged Sokolovsky with computer fraud for allegedly infecting millions of computers with the Raccoon Infostealer. […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 08, 2024
MoneyGram discloses data breach following September cyberattack

MoneyGram disclosed a data breach following a cyberattack in September, during which threat actors stole customer data. In September, American interstate and international peer-to-peer payments and money transfer company MoneyGram confirmed that its services are currently unavailable due to a cyberattack. On September 22, the company informed its customers that it was experiencing a network outage impacting connectivity to several […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 07, 2024
FBCS data breach impacted 238,000 Comcast customers

238,000 Comcast customers were impacted by the FBCS data breach following the February ransomware attack, Comcast reports. Telecommunications giant Comcast is notifying approximately 238,000 customers impacted by the Financial Business and Consumer Solutions (FBCS) data breach. FBCS, a third-party debt collection agency, collects personal information from its clients to facilitate debt collection activities on behalf […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 07, 2024
Man pleads guilty to stealing over $37 Million worth of cryptocurrency

A man from Indiana pleaded guilty to stealing over $37M in cryptocurrency from 571 victims during a 2022 cyberattack. Evan Frederick Light, 21, of Lebanon, Indiana, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to launder monetary instruments.  In February 2022, Light participated in a cyber attack on an investment firm in Sioux […]