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An e-crime actor of Mexican provenance has been linked to an Android mobile malware campaign targeting financial institutions globally, but with a specific focus on Spanish and Chilean banks, from June 2021 to April 2023. "Despite using relatively unsophisticated tools, Neo Net has achieved a high success rate by tailoring their infrastructure to specific targets, resulting in the theft of over 350,000 EUR from victims' bank accounts and compromising Personally Identifiable Information of thousands of victims," Thill said.
The malware was used to attack global organisations with "a large amount of activity" targeting Central and South America, including Mexico and Brazil. Brazil training event: Sao Paulo, BR and Virtual - Brasilia Time BRT. - Mexico training event: Mexico City, MX and Virtual - Central Time CT. Both these training seminars can be accessed live online, or the good old-fashioned way in-person.
The notorious 'Grandoreiro' banking trojan was spotted in recent attacks targeting employees of a chemicals manufacturer in Spain and workers of automotive and machinery makers in Mexico. It involves the deployment of a Grandoreiro malware variant featuring several new features to evade detection and anti-analysis, as well as a revamped C2 system.
Foxconn electronics manufacturer has confirmed that one of its Mexico-based production plants has been impacted by a ransomware attack in late May. The company did not provide any info on the group responsible for the attack but operators of the LockBit ransomware gang claimed responsibility. The attacked Foxconn factory is located in Tijuana, Mexico, and is considered a strategic facility that acts a critical supply hub for the U.S. state of California, a significant electronics consumer.
Bernalillo County, New Mexico, has been unable to comply with the settlement terms of a 27-year-old lawsuit over prison conditions because of a ransomware attack last week that saw prisoners back under manual control. Commissioners told the court that all of Bernalillo County, which covers the US state of New Mexico's largest city Albuquerque, had been affected by a January 5, 2022, ransomware attack, including the Metropolitan Detention Center that houses some of the state's incarcerated.
Media in the San Francisco area are reporting the arrest of a notorious former resident who allegedly skipped bail on hacking charges. Anonymous is perhaps best described as "a hacking group that wasn't" - a moniker that could be, and was, claimed by almost anyone with an internet axe to grind.
Access to Mexico's Lotería Nacional and Pronósticos lottery websites are now blocked to IP addresses outside of Mexico after a ransomware gang threatened to perform denial of service attacks. Lotería Nacional is the government-run national lottery system of Mexico, operating under Mexico's Ministry of Finance.
Florian "The Shark" Tudor, the alleged ringleader of a prolific ATM skimming gang that siphoned hundreds of millions of dollars from bank accounts of tourists visiting Mexico over the last eight years, was arrested in Mexico City on Thursday in response to an extradition warrant from a Romanian court. Tudor, a native of Craiova, Romania, moved to Mexico to set up Top Life Servicios, an ATM servicing company which managed a fleet of relatively new ATMs based in Mexico branded as Intacash.
A US Air Force intelligence officer who kidnapped her daughter to Mexico and attempted to defect to Russia with top-secret information is set to spend the better part of a decade behind bars. According to court documents [PDF] her unusual story started in July 2019, when she fled her Hedgesville home and flew to Mexico City where she contacted the Russian embassy, offering classified documents that she had removed from secure locations over the past 20 years.
A US Air Force intelligence officer who kidnapped her daughter to Mexico and attempted to defect to Russia with top-secret information is set to spend the better part of a decade behind bars. According to court documents [PDF] her unusual story started in July 2019, when she fled her Hedgesville home and flew to Mexico City where she contacted the Russian embassy, offering classified documents that she had removed from secure locations over the past 20 years.