Cloudflare’s developer domains increasingly abused by threat actors
Cloudflare's 'pages.dev' and 'workers.dev' domains, used for deploying web pages and facilitating serverless computing, are being increasingly abused by cybercriminals for phishing and other malicious activities.
U.S. Indicts 2 Top Russian Hackers, Sanctions Cryptex
The United States today unveiled sanctions and indictments against the alleged proprietor of Joker's Stash, a now-defunct cybercrime store that peddled tens of millions of payment cards stolen in some of the largest data breaches of the past decade. The…
Admins of MFA bypass service plead guilty to fraud
Three men have pleaded guilty to running OTP.Agency, an online platform that provided social engineering help to obtain one-time passcodes from customers of various banks and services in the U.K.
Behind the arrest of Telegram boss, a small Paris cybercrime unit with big ambitions
Durov's arrest marks a shift in dealing with tech chiefs Brousse's unit goes after its biggest ever target Legal experts question the prosecution's argument The investigation into Telegram boss Pavel Durov that has fired a warning shot to global tech titans was started by a small cybercrime unit within the Paris prosecutor's office, led by 38-year-old Johanna Brousse. The arrest of Durov, 39, last Saturday marks a significant shift in how some global authorities may seek to deal with tech chiefs reluctant to police illegal content on their platforms. The arrest signalled the mettle of the J3 cybercrime unit, but the true test of its ambitions will be whether Brousse can secure a conviction based on a largely untested legal argument, lawyers said.
Cybercriminals operating ransomware as a service from overseas continue to be responsible for most high-profile cybercrime attacks against the UK
The deployment of ransomware remains the greatest serious and organised cybercrime threat, the largest cybersecurity threat, and also poses a risk to the UK’s national security. Ransomware attacks can have a significant impact on victims due to financial, data, and service losses, which can lead to business closure, inaccessible public services, and compromised customer data. Threat actors are typically based in overseas jurisdictions where limited cooperation makes it challenging for UK law enforcement to disrupt their activities.
NCA infiltrates world's most prolific DDoS-for-hire service - National Crime Agency
The National Crime Agency has infiltrated a significant DDoS-for-hire service which has been responsible for tens of thousands of attacks every week across the globe. The disruption targeting digitalstress.su, a criminal marketplace offering DDos capabilities, was made in partnership with the Police Service of Northern Ireland. It comes after the PSNI arrested one of the site’s suspected controllers earlier this month.
Cybercriminals Exploit Docusign With Customizable Phishing Templates
Cybercriminals are abusing Docusign by selling customizable phishing templates on cybercrime forums, allowing attackers to steal credentials for phishing…
Ransomware payments drop to record low of 28% in Q1 2024
Ransomware actors have had a rough start this year, as stats from cybersecurity firm Coveware show that the trend of victims declining to pay the cybercriminals continues and has now reached a new record low of 28%.
The Fall of LabHost: Law Enforcement Shuts Down Phishing Service Provider | Trend Micro (US)
On Thursday, April 18, 2024, the UK’s Metropolitan Police Service, along with fellow UK and international law enforcement, as well as several trusted private industry partners, conducted an operation that succeeded in taking down the Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) provider LabHost. This move was also timed to coincide with a number of key arrests related to this operation. In this entry, we will briefly explain what LabHost was, how it affected its victims, and the impact of this law enforcement operation — including the assistance provided by Trend Micro.
Cybercrime: The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland files an indictment in connection with a number of cases of social engineering, in particular of bogus bank technician scams
On 4 April 2024, the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland has filed an indictment in the Federal Criminal Court against a French-Israeli citizen in connection with a series of cybercrime attacks carried out against Swiss companies. The defendant is accused of taking an active part in numerous cases of social engineering, particularly bogus bank technician scams, contributing decisively to the misappropriation of more than CHF 5 million from the bank accounts of various companies based in Switzerland.
‘The Manipulaters’ Improve Phishing, Still Fail at Opsec
Roughly nine years ago, KrebsOnSecurity profiled a Pakistan-based cybercrime group called "The Manipulaters," a sprawling web hosting network of phishing and spam delivery platforms. In January 2024, The Manipulaters pleaded with this author to unpublish previous stories about their work,…
The biggest cybersecurity and cyberattack stories of 2023
2023 was a big year for cybersecurity, with significant cyberattacks, data breaches, new threat groups emerging, and, of course, zero-day vulnerabilities.
How Kopeechka, an Automated Social Media Accounts Creation Service, Can Facilitate Cybercrime
In recent years, cybercriminals have become increasingly professional — fraudsters have consistently been improving their skills, making less crucial mistakes, and creating various “as-a-service” businesses to help lower-skilled threat actors launch scams and attacks, allowing the latter to run full cybercrime operations. There are different types of cybercrime services that exist today, including malware-as-a-service, where cybercriminals develop and sell malware services to other malicious actors; the service also includes creating and spreading malware types such as ransomware on compromised hosts. Meanwhile, other services require the use of multiple social media accounts to be successfully carried out, such as misinformation, spamming, and malware propagation. Indeed, it’s not uncommon for cybercriminals to send thousands of spam messages using thousands of accounts on social media platforms. But how do they manage to automate all of it?
Users of cybercrime forums often fall victim to info-stealers, researchers find
After analyzing millions of computers infected with info-stealing malware, researchers at Hudson Rock said they identified 120,000 that contained credentials used for logging into cybercrime forums.
TAG Aviation: Black Basta pirate une compagnie romande
La société TAG Aviation a été victime d'une attaque par ransomware. Les recherches de watson révèlent que Black Basta est à l'origine de cette attaque.
How ChatGPT can turn anyone into a ransomware and malware threat actor
Ever since OpenAI launched ChatGPT at the end of November, commentators on all sides have been concerned about the impact AI-driven content-creation will have, particularly in the realm of cybersecurity. In fact, many researchers are concerned that generative AI solutions will democratize cybercrime.
Six months into Breached: The legacy of RaidForums?
On March 14, 2022, a new English-language cybercrime forum called Breached (also known as BreachForums) launched, as a response to the closure and seizure of the popular RaidForums. Breached was launched with the same design by the threat actor “pompompurin” as “an alternative to RaidForums,” offering large-scale database leaks, login credentials, adult content, and hacking tools.
