Tag: crime
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FBI Warns: Threat Actors Impersonating BianLian Group to Target Corporate Executives
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a critical alert through its Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) warning of a novel cyber extortion campaign targeting corporate executives. Criminal actors impersonating the notorious BianLian ransomware group are leveraging physical mail to deliver threatening letters demanding Bitcoin payments under the guise of data exfiltration. The Cybersecurity and…
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Online crime-as-a-service skyrockets with 24,000 users selling attack tools
The growth of AI-based technology has introduced new challenges, making remote identity verification systems more vulnerable to attacks, according to iProov. Innovative and … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/03/03/remote-identity-verification-attacks/
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Microsoft Busts Hackers Selling Illegal Azure AI Access
LLMjacking operation leveraged illicit access GenAI services to produce explicit celebrity images and other harmful content, Microsoft’s digital crimes unit says. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/application-security/microsoft-openai-hackers-selling-illicit-access-azure-llm-services
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Feds: Army soldier suspected of AT&T heist Googled ‘can hacking be treason,’ ‘defecting to Russia’
FYI: What NOT to search after committing a crime First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/02/27/army_soldier_accused_of_att/
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Feds: Army soldier accused of AT&T heist Googled ‘can hacking be treason,’ ‘defecting to Russia’
FYI: What NOT to search after committing a crime First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/02/27/army_soldier_accused_of_att/
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Europol Cracks Down on European Document Forgery and Smuggling Ring
Europol has announced a successful operation against a significant organized crime group involved in forging official documents and First seen on securityonline.info Jump to article: securityonline.info/europol-cracks-down-on-european-document-forgery-and-smuggling-ring/
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How Banks Can Adapt to the Rising Threat of Financial Crime
Banking fraud and financial crimes are growing more sophisticated every day. By understanding the threats and building strong collaborations, banks can protect themselves and their clients. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/how-banks-adapt-rising-threat-financial-crime
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Unusual attack linked to Chinese APT group combines espionage and ransomware
Tags: apt, attack, breach, china, cloud, country, credentials, crime, crimes, crypto, cyber, cybercrime, cyberespionage, data, encryption, espionage, exploit, finance, firewall, government, group, hacker, infection, insurance, intelligence, korea, microsoft, network, north-korea, ransom, ransomware, russia, software, tactics, technology, threat, veeam, vulnerabilityThe attacker demanded a $2-million ransom: The attack that resulted in the deployment of the RA World ransomware program, as well as data exfiltration, had the same chain: the toshdpdb.exe loading toshdpapi.dll then decrypting toshdp.dat which resulted in the PlugX variant being deployed. The difference is the attacker then chose to deploy the RA World…
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UK government sanctions target Russian cyber crime network Zservers
The UK government has imposed sanctions on a Russian cyber crime syndicate responsible for aiding ransomware attacks, targeting the group and individual members First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366619219/UK-government-sanctions-target-Russian-cyber-crime-network-ZSERVERS
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The Loneliness Epidemic Is a Security Crisis
Romance scams cost victims hundreds of millions of dollars a year. As people grow increasingly isolated, and generative AI helps scammers scale their crimes, the problem could get worse. First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/loneliness-epidemic-romance-scams-security-crisis/
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Cyber crime meshes with cyber warfare as states enlist gangs
A report from the Google Threat Intelligence Group depicts China, Russia, Iran and North Korea as a bloc using cyber criminal gangs to attack the national security of western countries First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366619194/Google-Cyber-crime-meshes-with-cyber-warfare-as-states-enlist-gangs
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Channel Women In Security: True Crime And Adversary Tactics
Jamie Levy, director of adversary tactics at Huntress, is a seasoned expert in digital forensics and cybersecurity. Levy shares insight on personal security practices and the need for organizations to be prepared for potential breaches. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2025/true-crime-and-adversary-tactics
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Apple issues emergency patches to contain an ‘extremely sophisticated attack’ on targeted individuals
Security researcher uncovers the exploit: The vulnerability was discovered by Bill Marczak, a senior researcher at Citizen Lab, a digital rights research group at the University of Toronto’s Munk School.Marczak took to social media to urge users to update their devices immediately, stating: “Update your iPhones”¦ again! iOS 18.3.1 out today with a fix for…
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$16 Million Ransomware Operation Shut Down: 8Base Masterminds Apprehended
The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA), in conjunction with Europol, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Bavarian First seen on securityonline.info Jump to article: securityonline.info/16-million-ransomware-operation-shut-down-8base-masterminds-apprehended/
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IT Teams Worry About Increasing Cost of Cyber Tools From AI Features, While Criminals Barely Use Them
Most IT leaders believe generative AI will increase the cost of their security tools, according to Sophos research. But, by the looks of cyber crime forums, hackers are barely using AI. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/ai-cybersecurity-costs/
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S. Korea’s Notorious Sex Crime Hub Ya-moon Hacked, User Data Leaked
Ya-moon, S. Korea’s notorious sex crime hub operating since 1990, hacked; user data leaked, exposing CSAM, exploitation, and illicit activities. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/s-koreas-crime-hub-ya-moon-hacked-user-data-leak/
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Police arrest teenager suspected of hacking NATO and numerous Spanish institutions
Spain’s National Police, in a joint operation with the Civil Guard, has arrested an 18-year-old suspected of being the hacker going by aliases including “Natohub,” and known for hacking the computer services of private companies and Spanish institutions such as the Civil Guard, the Ministry of Defense, the National Mint, and the Ministry of Education,…
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NJ Lawmakers Advance Anti-Deepfake Legislation
New Jersey lawmakers advanced a bill that would make it a crime to knowingly create and distribute AI-generated deepfake visual or audio content for nefarious purposes, the latest step in an ongoing push at the state and national level to address the rising threat. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/02/nj-lawmakers-advance-anti-deepfake-legislation/
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Justice Department Disrupts Cybercrime Network Selling Hacking Tools to Organized Crime Groups
The Justice Department made a new move in disrupting an international network of cybercriminals by announcing the coordinated seizure of 39 cybercrime websites. These websites, associated with a Pakistan-based operation called the HeartSender, were used to sell hacking tools and fraud-enabling resources to transnational organized crime groups. The action was carried out in collaboration with…
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Europol seeks evidence of encryption on crime enforcement as it steps-up pressure on Big Tech
Europol wants examples of police investigations hampered by end-to-end encryption as it pressures tech companies to provide law enforcement access to encrypted messages First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366618230/Europol-seeks-evidence-of-encryption-on-crime-enforcement-as-it-steps-up-pressure-on-Big-Tech
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How organizations can secure their AI code
Tags: ai, application-security, awareness, backdoor, breach, business, chatgpt, ciso, compliance, control, credentials, crime, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, finance, github, healthcare, LLM, malicious, ml, open-source, organized, programming, risk, risk-management, software, startup, strategy, supply-chain, technology, tool, training, vulnerabilityIn 2023, the team at data extraction startup Reworkd was under tight deadlines. Investors pressured them to monetize the platform, and they needed to migrate everything from Next.js to Python/FastAPI. To speed things up, the team decided to turn to ChatGPT to do some of the work. The AI-generated code appeared to function, so they…
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Krypto-Crime 2024: Wofür Kriminelle Kryptowährungen nutzen
First seen on t3n.de Jump to article: t3n.de/news/cryptocrime-2024-chainalysis-report-1668656/
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Illicit Crypto-Inflows Set to Top $51bn in a Year
Chainalysis estimates threat actors made at least $51bn through crypto crime in 2024 First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/illicit-cryptoinflows-top-51bn-year/
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Case Studies on Fraud and AML Collaboration
Mission Omega’s Ian Mitchell on What Works and What Doesn’t in Program Integration. Fraud management and anti-money laundering represent two distinct disciplines in financial crime prevention. While AML primarily is a compliance-driven function, fraud is a risk management function driven by the organization’s risk appetite for fraud, said Ian Mitchell, co-founder of Mission Omega. First…
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Microsoft sues overseas threat actor group over abuse of OpenAI service
Microsoft has filed suit against 10 unnamed people (“Does”), who are apparently operating overseas, for misuse of its Azure OpenAI platform, asking the Eastern District of Virginia federal court for damages and injunctive relief.The suit was filed in late December but was not made public until last Friday, when the initial sealed filings were revealed.…
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Microsoft Sues Hacking Group Exploiting Azure AI for Harmful Content Creation
Microsoft has revealed that it’s pursuing legal action against a “foreign-based threatactor group” for operating a hacking-as-a-service infrastructure to intentionally get around the safety controls of its generative artificial intelligence (AI) services and produce offensive and harmful content.The tech giant’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) said it has observed the threat actors “develop First seen on…
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PhishWP Impersonates Stripe, Spreads Across Russian Crime Forums
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/phishwp-wordpress-plugin-impersonating-stripe-spreads-across-russian-cybercrime-forums