Cybercrime as-a-service , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , ID Fraud Cybercriminals Netting Over 50 Credentials Per Infected Device, Kaspersky Says Jayant Chakravarti (@JayJay_Tech) • April 18, 2024 A rise in infostealer malware attacks over the past three years has enabled cybercriminal groups to turn credential stealing into a major money-making business, paving the […]
Ukraine’s defense intelligence directorate (GUR) said it infected thousands of servers belonging to Russia’s state tax service with malware, and destroyed databases and backups. During the operation, Ukraine’s military spies said they managed to break into one of the “key well-protected central servers” of Russia’s federal tax service (FNS) as well as more than 2,300 […]
BLACK HAT EUROPE 2023 — London — The HeadCrab malware, which adds infected devices to a botnet for use in cryptomining and other attacks, has resurfaced with a shiny new variant that allows root access to Redis open source servers. Researchers from Aqua Security said the second variant of cryptomining malware has infected 1,100 servers; […]
The phone of a prominent Russian journalist and critic of the Kremlin was infected with Pegasus spyware, according to new research. The notorious spying software developed by the Israeli company NSO Group was reportedly installed on the iPhone of Galina Timchenko, owner of the Russian independent media outlet Meduza, while she was in Berlin for […]