Security News

U.S. Cybersecurity Agencies Warn of Scattered Spider's Gen Z Cybercrime Ecosystem
2023-11-17 07:32

U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies have released a joint advisory about a cybercriminal group known as Scattered Spider that's known to employ sophisticated phishing tactics to...

Cybercrime service bypasses Android security to install malware
2023-11-06 12:00

A new dropper-as-a-service cybercrime operation named 'SecuriDropper' has emerged, using a method that bypasses the 'Restricted Settings' feature in Android to install malware on devices and obtain access to Accessibility Services. Restricted Settings is a security feature introduced with Android 13 that prevents side-loaded applications installed from outside Google Play to access powerful features like the Accessibility settings and Notification Listener.

U.S. Treasury Sanctions Russian Money Launderer in Cybercrime Crackdown
2023-11-06 05:30

The U.S. Department of the Treasury imposed sanctions against a Russian woman for taking part in the laundering of virtual currency for the country's elites and cybercriminal crews, including the...

Massive cybercrime URL shortening service uncovered via DNS data
2023-10-31 15:23

A threat actor that security researchers call Prolific Puma has been providing link shortening services to cybercriminals for at least four years while keeping a sufficiently low profile to...

Nigerian Police dismantle cybercrime recruitment, mentoring hub
2023-10-26 17:52

The Nigerian Police Form has arrested six suspects and dismantled a mentoring hub linked to cybercrime activities, including business email compromise, romance, and investment scams. After receiving intelligence and investigating a group of individuals suspected of cybercrime, six individuals were arrested on September 13th, 2023, in the Dantata estate area.

ExelaStealer: A New Low-Cost Cybercrime Weapon Emerges
2023-10-20 09:02

A new information stealer named ExelaStealer has become the latest entrant to an already crowded landscape filled with various off-the-shelf malware designed to capture sensitive data from...

Single Sign On and the Cybercrime Ecosystem
2023-10-18 14:02

Threat actors then distribute infostealer malware and leverage Telegram as the backend where fresh "Logs" are delivered upon successful infection. Finally these log files are then distributed in public and private Telegram channels to other threat actors.

LLMs lower the barrier for entry into cybercrime
2023-10-05 04:30

"Without a doubt chatbots or large language models lower the barrier for entry to cybercrime, making it possible to create well-written phishing campaigns and generate malware that less capable coders could not produce alone," said Jack Chapman, VP of Threat Intelligence, Egress. The number one phishing topic was missed voice messages, which accounted for 18.4% of phishing attacks between January to September 2023, making them the most phished topic for the year so far.

BunnyLoader: New Malware-as-a-Service Threat Emerges in the Cybercrime Underground
2023-10-02 05:31

Cybersecurity experts have discovered yet another malware-as-a-service (MaaS) threat called BunnyLoader that's being advertised for sale on the cybercrime underground. "BunnyLoader provides...

ShadowSyndicate: A New Cybercrime Group Linked to 7 Ransomware Families
2023-09-26 15:56

Cybersecurity experts have shed light on a new cybercrime group known as ShadowSyndicate (formerly Infra Storm) that may have leveraged as many as seven different ransomware families over the past...