Check Point Research has discovered new malware on Google’s Play Store that could spread through WhatsApp messages. According to the cybersecurity firm, the malware was designed with the ability to automatically respond to incoming WhatsApp messages on behalf of its victims, and the content of the response was provided by a remote server. CPR found…
Cryptocurrency Fraud , Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Group-IB: Administrator, Seller and Buyer Data Also Stolen Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • April 8, 2021 Here’s a guide to the national origin of card data that was stolen from the Swarmshop market. (Source: Group-IB) For the second time in two years, the contents of…
The National College of Ireland (NCI) and the Technological University of Dublin have announced that ransomware attacks hit their IT systems. NCI is currently working on restoring IT services after being hit by a ransomware attack over the weekend that forced the college to take IT systems offline. “NCI is currently experiencing a significant disruption…
Cryptocurrency Fraud , Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Group-IB: Administrator, Seller and Buyer Data Also Stolen Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • April 8, 2021 Here’s a guide to the national origin of card data that was stolen from the Swarmshop market. (Source: Group-IB) For the second time in two years, the contents of…
Group-IB, a global threat hunting and adversary-centric cyber intelligence company, discovered that user data of the Swarmshop card shop have been leaked online on March 17, 2021. The database was posted on a different underground forum and contained 12,344 records of the card shop admins, sellers and buyers including their nicknames, hashed passwords, contact details, history of activity, and…
Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management , Governance & Risk Management Exploits Could Lead to System Hijacking, Data Theft, Ransomware Attacks Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • April 7, 2021 Attackers are targeting unpatched SAP applications, and the exploits could lead to the hijacking of the vulnerable systems, data theft and ransomware attacks,…
Through its official spokesperson, the European Commission acknowledged that last March it was the victim of a dangerous cyberattack that would also have affected other organizations in the European Union. Details such as the type of attack impacted the systems of these organizations or the hacking groups behind the incident are currently unknown. “Multiple organizations…
Easy to redeem and hard to trace, gift cards remain a hot commodity in the criminal underground A cybercriminal has sold almost 900,000 gift cards and over 300,000 payment cards on a top-tier cybercrime forum on the dark web. The total value of the cards was claimed to be some US$38 million. The hacker probably…
A pharmacist whose brother died after having the AstraZeneca vaccine has told the BBC she still feels strongly that people should continue have their jabs. Alison Astles’ brother Neil, 59, died of a blood clot on the brain on Sunday, after having the vaccination on 17 March. She said he was “extraordinarily unlucky” and that…
In the United States a person’s willingness to get vaccinated against Covid-19 varies by religious affiliation, with white evangelicals being the least likely demographic to get the vaccine, the Pew Research Centre has found. Nine out of ten atheists would definitely or probably get a vaccine or have already had one, compared to 77% of…
