Over the past three years, the website of No More Ransom was visited by 3 million users and allowed to save $108 million in ransom to the victims of 109 ransomware. After three years, No More Ransom confirms the success of the initiative that aims at helping victims of ransomware. The No More Ransom was […]
Marcus Hutchins has been sentenced to “time served” and one year of supervised release his role in developing and selling the Kronos banking malware. The popular researcher Marcus Hutchins, also known as MalwareTech, has been sentenced to “time served” and one year of supervised release his role in developing and selling the Kronos banking malware. […]
An Irish national has been sentenced to 78 months in jail for his role as one of the administrators and forum moderators of Silk Road dark web marketplace. Gary Davis (31), of Wicklow, Ireland, has been sentenced to 78 months in prison for his role as one of the administrators and forum moderators of Silk […]
Three Romanian men who have been sentenced to prison for a fraud scheme totaling more than $21 million. US authorities have sentenced to prison three Romanian men who hacked US servers and used them in a fraud scheme that totaled more than $21 million. The men are Teodor Laurentiu Costea, Robert Codrut Dumitrescu, and Cosmin […]
Malware researchers at Yoroi-Cybaze Z-Lab have discovered a P2P worm that is spreading Crypto-Miners in the wild. Introduction In the past months we published a white paper exploring the risks that users can encounter when downloading materials from P2P sharing network, such as the Torrent one. We discussed how crooks easily lure their victims to download malware […]
Dutch authorities announced the arrest of a 20-year old man for allegedly developing Dryad and Rubella Macro Builders. Dutch authorities announced have arrested a 20-year old man that is accused to be the author of Dryad and Rubella Macro Builders. The man lives in Utrecht, it created and distributed Rubella, Cetan and Dryad toolkits. “Recently […]
Some of the crooks behind the Dridex Trojan have split from the gang and released a forked version of the BitPaymer ransomware dubbed DoppelPaymer. Cybercrime gang tracked as TA505 has been active since 2014 and focusing on Retail and Banking industries. The group that is known for the distribution of the Dridex Trojan and the Locky ransomware, has released other pieces of […]
On July 6, a ransomware attack brought down government computer systems at La Porte County, Indiana, finally, the county decided to pay $130,000 ransom. On July 6, a ransomware attack paralyzed the computer systems at La Porte County, Indiana, according to County Commission President Dr. Vidya Kora, employees were not able to access to any […]
BITPoint Japan-based cryptocurrency announced that hackers have stolen more than $32 million (3.5 billion yen) worth of cryptocurrency due to a cyber attack. BITPoint Japan-based cryptocurrency was victim of a cyber attack, the Remixpoint’s subsidiary announced that hackers have stolen more than $32 million (3.5 billion yen) worth of cryptocurrency. BITPoint discovered the security breach […]
The CVE-2019-1132 flaw addressed by Microsoft this month was exploited by Buhtrap threat actor to target a government organization in Eastern Europe. Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for July 2019 address a total of 77 vulnerabilities, including two privilege escalation flaws actively exploited in the wild. The first vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-1132, affects the Win32k component and could be […]