“Either they just intended to commit theft and steal the assets, or they were acting like a white hat hacker to expose a bug, to help Poly Network make themselves more strong and secure,” Mr Robinson, who routinely advises governments and law enforcement agencies about crypto-related crimes, told the BBC.
Cybercrime , Forensics , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Prodaft: APT Group Uses ‘Unprecedented Malware Detection Sandbox’ Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • March 22, 2021 SolarWinds attack timeline (Source: Prodaft) Swiss cybersecurity firm Prodaft says it has accessed several servers used by an advanced persistent threat group tied to the SolarWinds supply chain attack. These…
Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Ransomware Also, Parliament’s Email System Shut Down After Clumsy Compromise Attempt Jeremy Kirk (jeremy_kirk) • March 29, 2021 A major Australian broadcaster was hit over the weekend by what was likely ransomware, and the country’s federal Parliament was affected by what is described as a clumsy…
Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Group Used Fresh Tactic to Target South Korea Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • April 21, 2021 The form Lazarus uses to lure in its victims (Source: Malwarebytes) Malwarebytes researchers report the North Korean advanced persistent threat group Lazarus rolled out a…
Image: Microsoft Microsoft issued guidance on securing Azure accounts that may be impacted by a recently addressed Cosmos DB critical vulnerability, giving attackers full admin rights to users’ data without authorization. The flaw, dubbed ChaosDB, impacts Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB, a globally distributed NoSQL database service used by a wide assortment of high-profile customers, including Exxon-Mobil, Mercedes…
Cybercrime , Cybercrime as-a-service , Fraud Management & Cybercrime New JSSLoader Variant is Being Spread by TA543 Group Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • June 26, 2021 A cybercrime group tracked as TA543 by security firm Proofpoint is deploying a new variant of a malware loader to target victims as part of a phishing campaign,…
If you’re a member of the US military who’s gotten friendly Facebook messages from private-sector recruiters for months on end, suggesting a lucrative future in the aerospace or defense contractor industry, Facebook may have some bad news. On Thursday, the social media giant revealed that it has tracked and at least partially disrupted a long-running…
