Fake Investor John Bernard Sinks Norwegian Green Shipping Dreams
Several articles here have delved into the history of John Bernard , the pseudonym used by a fake billionaire technology investor who tricked dozens... Read more
Who Wrote the ALPHV/BlackCat Ransomware Strain?
In December 2021, researchers discovered a new ransomware-as-a-service named ALPHV (a.k.a. “ BlackCat “), considered to be the first professional c... Read more
Scary Fraud Ensues When ID Theft & Usury Collide
What’s worse than finding out that identity thieves took out a 546 percent interest payday loan in your name? How about a 900 percent interest loan?... Read more
Crime Shop Sells Hacked Logins to Other Crime Shops
Up for the “Most Meta Cybercrime Offering” award this year is Accountz Club , a new cybercrime store that sells access to purloined accounts at serv... Read more
IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access
If you created an online account to manage your tax records with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), those login credentials will cease to wor... Read more
At Request of U.S., Russia Rounds Up 14 REvil Ransomware Affiliates
The Russian government said today it arrested 14 people accused of working for “ REvil ,” a particularly aggressive ransomware group that has extorte... Read more
Who is the Network Access Broker ‘Wazawaka?’
In a great many ransomware attacks, the criminals who pillage the victim’s network are not the same crooks who gained the initial access to the victi... Read more
‘Wormable’ Flaw Leads January 2022 Patch Tuesday
Microsoft today released updates to plug nearly 120 security holes in Windows and supported software. Six of the vulnerabilities were publicly de... Read more
KCodes NetUSB kernel Vulnerability Exposed Millions of Routers
Cybersecurity researchers have detailed a high severity vulnerability in KCodes NetUSB allowing remote code execution that has impacted millions of r... Read more
Security Researchers Find Bugs in URL Libraries Allow DoS, RCE, Spoofing & Many More
Researchers discovered URL-parsing bugs that could impact several web apps. The cybersecurity experts noticed some vulnerabilities borne out of incon... Read more
Researchers Find Abcbot Botnet Linked With the Xanthe Cryptomining malware
Researchers at Cado security claim that the Abcbot botnet and Xanthe-based cryptojacking campaign have the same operator. New research into the infra... Read more
500M Avira Antivirus Users Introduced to Cryptomining
Many readers were surprised to learn recently that the popular Norton 360 antivirus suite now ships with a program which lets customers make money... Read more
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