The RYUK ransomware which has been in prevalence since October 2018 has been linked to an aggressive and financially motivated threat actor who has been known to have a close partnership with TrickBot-affiliated threat actors and making use of publicly available arsenal of tools such as Cobalt Strike Beacon payloads to interact with victim networks. […]
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The Europol once again have dismantled an international organized group (OGC) making millions off real estate fraud. Operations against the gang began back in 2017 however during a 10 so-called “action days” between September 2020 and September 2021 the OGC was taken down. A total of 130 suspects were identified and 116 searches conducted with
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Recent financial crime reports have stated that phishing scams conducted via texts otherwise know as smishing is now on the rise. This is ranked amongst purchase scams, where payments are made for products that never arrive, social engineering, impersonation and account take over (ATO). Smishing found its way into the Feedzai’s financial crime report top
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Ransomware operators in Ukraine have been apprehended by Law enforcement agencies. The joint exercise took place on the 28th day of September by officials from the French National Gendarmerie, the Ukrainian National Police, and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), alongside participation from the Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre and the INTERPOL’s Cyber Fusion Centre.
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The Customer service week which holds every 1st week of the month of October has come to be recognized as the week we celebrate the importance of customer service and importance of the people who serve and support customers on a daily basis. However in all of these celebrations lest we get carried away, do
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An organized crime group that has so far amassed well over €10m from online fraud, drug trafficking and property crimes has been dismantled by the European police. The operation involved the Spanish and Italian national police, with Europol and Eurojust coordinating. The group itself, which was linked to the Italian mafia, is suspected of defrauding
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FamousSparrow as nicknamed by the cybersecurity firm ESET has been attributed as being responsible for strings of attacks against hotels across the world, government international organizations and law firms worldwide. This has been said to be active since August 2019 with victims spreading across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East with countries such as
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The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday imposed sanctions on Russian cryptocurrency exchange Suex for helping facilitate and launder transactions from at least eight ransomware variants as part of the government’s efforts to crack down on a surge in ransomware incidents and make it difficult for bad actors to profit from such attacks using digital currencies.
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A previously undocumented backdoor that was recently found targeting an unnamed computer retail company based in the U.S. has been linked to a longstanding Chinese espionage operation dubbed Grayfly. In late August, Slovakian cybersecurity firm ESET disclosed details of an implant called SideWalk, which is designed to load arbitrary plugins sent from an attacker-controlled server,
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An actively exploited zero-day flaw Tracked as CVE-2021-40444 (CVSS score: 8.8), has been discovered to be impacting Internet Explorer. The remote code execution flaw is rooted in MSHTML (aka Trident), a proprietary browser engine for the now-discontinued Internet Explorer and which is used in Office to render web content inside Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents.
