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Amey suffers cyber attack from ransomware 4 min read

Amey suffers cyber attack from ransomware

Ax Sharma January 1, 2021

UK's prominent infrastructure management company Amey has been hit by Mount Locker ransomware group in what the company has called a "complex" cyber attack.... Read More

Hacker selling Vodafone’s Ho Mobile database of 2.5M users 3 min read

Hacker selling Vodafone’s Ho Mobile database of 2.5M users

Ax Sharma December 29, 2020

The database contains ICCID that can be used in SIM swapping attacks. Other information in the leaked dump includes mobile number, customer PII, SIM PUK, IMSI and security hashes.... Read More

Feds arrest Romanian malware actors behind CyberSeal and Dataprotector 2 min read

Feds arrest Romanian malware actors behind CyberSeal and Dataprotector

Ax Sharma November 21, 2020

In a joint effort, international law enforcement authorities including the FBI, Europol, and the Romanian police have arrested a hacker duo that sold malware encryption tools.... Read More

‘CursedGrabber’ Discord malware possibly linked to Russian and Ukrainian hackers 3 min read

‘CursedGrabber’ Discord malware possibly linked to Russian and Ukrainian hackers

Ax Sharma November 18, 2020

Newly discovered Discord malware "CursedGrabber" has possible links to Russia and Ukraine. It was found infiltrating the npm open source registry.... Read More

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‘Verified’ Twitter account of cURL dev hacked, renamed to ‘Elon Musk’ in Bitcoin scam 2 min read

‘Verified’ Twitter account of cURL dev hacked, renamed to ‘Elon Musk’ in Bitcoin scam

Ax Sharma November 17, 2020

The official Twitter account of Daniel Stenberg, creator of the cURL software project has been hacked. It's been renamed to "Elon Musk" to help conduct a cryptocurrency scam.... Read More

American Bank Systems hit by ransomware attack, full 53 GB data dump leaked 3 min read

American Bank Systems hit by ransomware attack, full 53 GB data dump leaked

Ax Sharma November 14, 2020

American Bank Systems (ABS), a service provider to US banks and financial institutions has suffered a ransomware attack with some of its clients' data leaked.... Read More

How public safety systems can be abused by nation state actors 1 min read

How public safety systems can be abused by nation state actors

Ax Sharma June 30, 2020

Open systems, open data, and open-source software provide a means to promote greater transparency, public trust, and user participation. But what happens when adversaries can... Read More

Behind an entire catalogue of malicious Chrome extensions? Allegedly, a domain registrar 3 min read

Behind an entire catalogue of malicious Chrome extensions? Allegedly, a domain registrar

Ax Sharma June 26, 2020

It is not unusual for malware to use malicious C&C servers and domains. However, what we learn this week is something entirely different, sinister and... Read More

Operation In(ter)ception targeted European Space and Military Companies via LinkedIn 3 min read

Operation In(ter)ception targeted European Space and Military Companies via LinkedIn

Ax Sharma June 18, 2020

In a new report published by ESET’s researchers, we learn of Operation In(ter)ception which heavily targeted aerospace and military organizations. “To compromise their targets, the... Read More

Indian hacker-for-hire firm wanted by FBI targeted ExxonMobil and others 2 min read

Indian hacker-for-hire firm wanted by FBI targeted ExxonMobil and others

Ax Sharma June 15, 2020

Last week we reported on CloudEyE which was a legitimate Italian business helping hackers with spreading malware. Now, Citizen Lab has unveiled a major... Read More

Cybercrime

Amey suffers cyber attack from ransomware

Hacker selling Vodafone’s Ho Mobile database of 2.5M users

Feds arrest Romanian malware actors behind CyberSeal and Dataprotector

‘CursedGrabber’ Discord malware possibly linked to Russian and Ukrainian hackers

‘Verified’ Twitter account of cURL dev hacked, renamed to ‘Elon Musk’ in Bitcoin scam

American Bank Systems hit by ransomware attack, full 53 GB data dump leaked

How public safety systems can be abused by nation state actors

Behind an entire catalogue of malicious Chrome extensions? Allegedly, a domain registrar

Operation In(ter)ception targeted European Space and Military Companies via LinkedIn

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