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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…

Breach Notification , Cybercrime , Endpoint Security Manufacturer Stopped Supporting Targeted Network-Attached Storage Devices in 2015 Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • June 28, 2021     Screen grab posted by the owner of a LAN-connected Western Digital My Book Live after it was apparently hit by a data-wiping attack that also changed the device’s admin…

Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management PDF Documents Stuffed With SEO Keywords Lead to Malware Attacks Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • June 16, 2021     SEO poisoning attacks use thousands of PDFs stuffed with links to malware. (Image: Pixabay) SolarMarker backdoor malware operators are using “SEO poisoning” techniques to deploy the…

Critical Infrastructure Security , Cybercrime , Cybercrime as-a-service Expert: More Likely, an Affiliate Has Repurposed REvil’s Crypto-Locking Malware Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • July 28, 2021     BlackMatter’s dedicated data leak site (Source: Recorded Future) Has the REvil – aka Sodinokibi – ransomware operation come storming back? See Also: Live Webinar | Improve Cloud…

A jury in California today reached a guilty verdict in the trial of Matthew Gatrel, a St. Charles, Ill. man charged in 2018 with operating two online services that allowed paying customers to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Internet users and websites. Gatrel’s conviction comes roughly two weeks after his co-conspirator pleaded guilty…

Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management , Social Media Account Used to Attempt Cryptocurrency Fraud Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • May 25, 2021     (Source: Tom Raftery via Flickr/CC) Carl Pei, co-founder of OnePlus, a smartphone company, said Tuesday that his Twitter account had been compromised via a third-party app called IFTTT and…