Germany was the top European country, occupying sixth place in the global rankings. Iran, Italy, the United Kingdom and, lastly, Saudi Arabia complete the 10 most-affected nations. “We see the number of users affected by stalkerware has remained high and we detect new samples every day,” said Victor….
Written by Tonya Riley Aug 9, 2021 | CYBERSCOOP Two individuals involved with laundering funds from U.S. victims of cybercrime pleaded guilty to their role in a transnational organization that relied in part on hacking to defraud victims out of millions of dollars, the Justice Department announced Friday. The defendants, Arturs Zaharevics and Aleksejs Trofimovics,…
As part of the Pegasus Project, forensic analyses revealed that 67 phones had shown signs of a successful Pegasus infection or intrusion attempt. Amnesty International’s Security Lab, a technical partner of the investigation, said last week that it has confirmed infections or traces of Pegasus spyware in 15 additional phones since the stories were first…
Forensics , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development Elliptic Says It Traced Payments by Colonial Pipeline and Many Others Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • May 18, 2021 Ransom payment amounts generated by DarkSide ransomware (Source: Elliptic) The DarkSide ransomware gang apparently collected over $90 million in ransom payments from about…
The data of 700 million LinkedIn users leaked on an online hacker forum. This attack follows an earlier leak of users of the business-oriented social media platform. Analysts from Privacy Shark discovered the data in a post by a hacker calling themself “GOD User TomLiner.” The hacker has put the data cache for sale. The…
Lawmakers and Witnesses See Expanded Role for CISA Following Attack Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • February 26, 2021 (Clockwise from top left): Reps. James Comer, Bennie G. Thompson, John Katko and Carolyn Maloney led the joint committee hearing on Friday examining the supply chain attack that targeted SolarWinds. A pair of U.S. House committees…
Threat actors are increasingly abusing collaboration platforms for nefarious purposes, including malware delivery and data exfiltration, security researchers with Cisco’s Talos division report. With the COVID-19 pandemic forcing many organizations to switch to telework, interactive communication platforms such as Discord and Slack saw increased adoption and adversaries didn’t wait long to start abusing these tools….
