Experts Analyze Conti and Hive Ransomware Gangs Chats With Their Victims
An analysis of four months of chat logs spanning more than 40 conversations between the operators of Conti and Hive ransomware and their victims...
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New RIG Exploit Kit Campaign Infecting Victims’ PCs with RedLine Stealer
A new campaign leveraging an exploit kit has been observed abusing an Internet Explorer flaw patched by Microsoft last year to deliver the RedLine...
GitHub Notifies Victims Whose Private Data Was Accessed Using OAuth Tokens
GitHub on Monday noted that it had notified all victims of an attack campaign, which involved an unauthorized party downloading private repository contents by...
North Korean Hackers Distributing Trojanized DeFi Wallet Apps to Steal Victims’ Crypto
The North Korean state-backed hacking crew, otherwise known as the Lazarus Group, has been attributed to yet another financially motivated campaign that leverages a...
Ransomware is scary, but another scam is costing victims much, much more, says FBI
Business email compromise (BEC) remains the biggest source of financial losses, which totaled $2.4 billion in 2021, up from an estimated $1.8 billion in...
FBI warning: This ransomware uses DDoS to threaten victims. Here’s what to watch out for
AvosLocker, a ransomware-as-a-service menace that launched in July 2021, continues to attack US critical infrastructure, the US Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has warned...
‘Everyone loses’: This new ransomware threatens to wipe Windows PCs if its victims don’t pay up
LokiLocker, a relatively new form of ransomware, uses the standard extortion-through-encryption racket but also incorporates disk-wiper functionality. Double extortion became a hit...
Spanish Police Arrest SIM Swappers Who Stole Money from Victims Bank Accounts
Spain’s National Police Agency, the Policía Nacional, said last week it dismantled an unnamed cybercriminal organization and arrested eight individuals in connection with a...
Ransomware gangs are changing their tactics. That could prove very expensive for some victims
The cost and risk of executing ransomware attacks is going up, making it harder for cyber criminals to carry them out, which could lead...
Amazon fake crypto token investment scam steals Bitcoin from victims
A new cryptocurrency-related scam is abusing the Amazon brand to dupe would-be investors into handing over Bitcoin (BTC). Cryptocurrency and digital token scams have...