Myanmar authorities handed over to the Chinese government 10 suspects accused of involvement in the organized cyber fraud industry, including the heads of three prominent crime families. The arrests come after China’s Ministry of Public Security released a wanted list in December for the members of the “family crime syndicates,” which have ties to Myanmar’s […]
The deployment of file-encrypting ransomware by organized cybercriminal gangs is one of the largest cybersecurity risks facing organizations. A network breach that culminates with a ransomware infection often starts with an infection with a type of malware called a loader. This malware acts as a foothold into an organization’s network and is subsequently used to […]
Not one, not two, but three open-source software registries have come under attack at once in an organized cybercrime operation aimed at macOS users. A criminal group has uploaded harmful packages to PyPI, NPM, and RubyGems repositories to target respective developers. What happened? While scrutinizing the source code and metadata of registry-pushed packages, cybersecurity experts […]