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…
Politicians need to come together to prevent further violence in Northern Ireland, the former British chief negotiator for the Good Friday Agreement has said. Jonathan Powell told BBC World News: “I don’t think this will take us back into the Troubles but I do think politicians are playing with matches. This is the time of…
The mixed messaging over the AstraZenca coronavirus jab is affecting vaccine confidence in low and middle income countries, the co-chair of the African Union’s Africa Vaccine Delivery Alliance for Covid-19 has said. Dr Ayoade Alakija told BBC World News that the vaccine is being rolled out to over two billion people and is often the…
Report: Builder Allows Cybercriminals to Create Specialized Office Documents Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • April 8, 2021 An EtterSilent DocuSign template from a campaign in March 2021. (Source: Intel 471) Researchers at Intel 471 report cybercriminal gangs are using a newly discovered malicious document builder called “EtterSilent” to create differentiated, hard-to-discover, malicious documents that…
A new day and here comes a new malware that aimed to trick Android smartphone users and steal their private data without their consent. As per a report coming from security firm Check Point Research, a fake Netflix app on Google Play Store targeted to spread malware by automatically responding to WhatsApp messages. Google has taken…
