Cyber Attacks

Nigerian BEC Scammer Sentenced To 25-Year Prison Term in the United States

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A 46-year-old man was found guilty of laundering more than $9.5 million amassed via the commission of financial fraud that was enabled by the internet and received a 25-year prison sentence as a result. Elvis Eghosa Ogiekpolor, of Norcross, Georgia, ran a money-laundering network that set up at least 50 corporate bank accounts to swindle […]

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Popular YouTube Channel Caught Sharing Fake Tor Browser Installer

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A trojanized Windows installer for the Tor Browser is being distributed through a well-known Chinese-language YouTube channel. The campaign, OnionPoison, was named by Kaspersky, and all of the victims were in China. The scope of the attack is yet unknown, but the Russian cybersecurity firm reported that in March 2022, victims began to show up

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Hackers Using PowerPoint Mouseover Trick to Infect System with Malware

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A new code execution technique has been discovered to be used by the state-sponsored threat actor APT28 from Russia to spread malware. This technique takes use of mouse movement in phoney Microsoft PowerPoint slides. According to cybersecurity company Cluster25, the method “is meant to be activated when the user starts the presentation mode and moves

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Crypto Trading Firm Wintermute Loses $160 Million in Hacking Incident

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Hackers have taken digital assets worth over $160 million from cryptocurrency trading company Wintermute in the latest crypto crime to attack the decentralised finance (DeFi) sector. Unauthorized transfers of USD Coin, Binance USD, Tether USD, Wrapped ETH, and 66 other cryptocurrencies to the attacker’s wallet were part of the hack. The business claimed that the

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U.S. Charges 3 Iranian Hackers and Sanctions Several Others Over Ransomware Attacks

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Wide-ranging penalties against ten people and two organizations supported by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for their involvement in ransomware attacks at least since October 2020 were announced on Wednesday by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). According to the FBI, some of the individuals’ online activities can be attributed

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New Malware Targeting YouTube Gamers Uncovered

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Links to harmful password-protected archive files intended to install the RedLine Stealer malware and crypto miners on infected devices are being sent to gamers searching for cheats on YouTube. In a new report released today, Kaspersky security researcher Oleg Kupreev stated that “the videos sell cheats and crackers and provide advice on hacking popular games

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New EvilProxy Phishing Service Allowing Cybercriminals to Bypass 2-Factor Security

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The criminal underworld is promoting a new phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) toolkit called EvilProxy as a way for threat actors to get beyond the two-factor authentication (2FA) safeguards put in place against internet services. In a report published on Monday, Resecurity researchers stated that “EvilProxy actors are exploiting reverse proxy and cookie injection methods to overcome 2FA

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Samsung Acknowledges Data Breach that Leaked Information About Some US Customers

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This is the second time this year that South Korean chaebol Samsung has disclosed a cybersecurity incident that led to the unlawful access of certain customer information. Samsung stated in a notice that “in late July 2022, an unauthorized third-party obtained information from several of Samsung’s U.S. networks.” We discovered through our continuing investigation that

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Hackers Distributing Malware Using Fake DDoS Protection Pages

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Hackers are using WordPress websites to show fake Cloudflare DDoS protection pages that spread malware like NetSupport RAT and Raccoon Stealer. According to a report last week by Sucuri’s Ben Martin, a recent spike in JavaScript injections that target WordPress sites has led to phony DDoS prevent prompts that direct victims to download remote access

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Okta Hackers Behind Twilio and Cloudflare Breach Hit Over 130 Organizations

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The threat actor responsible for the attack on Twilio and Cloudflare earlier this month has been connected to a larger phishing operation that targeted 136 businesses and led to a total of 9,931 accounts being compromised. Because the primary intent of the assaults was to “get Okta identity credentials and two-factor authentication (2FA) codes from

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