Cyber Attacks

Russian Server Revives Robin Banks’ Phishing Service for Cybercriminals

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The assault infrastructure of Robin Banks, a phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform, has been moved to DDoS-Guard, a Russian provider of secure hosting services. After “Cloudflare disassociated Robin Banks phishing infrastructure from its services, causing a multi-day disruption to operations,” according to a report from cybersecurity firm IronNet, the transfer was made. Since Cloudflare decided to blacklist […]

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U.S. Seizes Over 50K Bitcoin Worth $3.3 Billion Linked to Silk Road Dark Web

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In November 2021, 50,676 Bitcoin that had been taken in the 2012 attack of the now-defunct Silk Road dark web bazaar were seized, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ), which announced the seizure on Monday. When it was uncovered last year, the bitcoin, which was acquired in 2012 and valued at $3.36 billion,

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Dropbox Gets Hacked

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File hosting service Dropbox on Tuesday disclosed that it was the victim of a phishing campaign that allowed unidentified threat actors to gain unauthorized access to 130 of its source code repositories on GitHub. “These repositories included our own copies of third-party libraries slightly modified for use by Dropbox, internal prototypes, and some tools and

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Brazilian Police Arrest Suspected Member of Lapsus$ Hacking Group

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On Wednesday, the Brazilian Federal Police reported that one person had been detained for allegedly having ties to the notorious LAPSUS$ extortion group. The arrest was made as part of Operation Dark Cloud, a new law enforcement initiative that was started in August 2022, according to the agency. Other than the possibility that the suspect

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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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