July 20th, 2021 by hankshelp
“Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) has seized 17 malicious domains used by scammers in a business email compromise (BEC) campaign targeting the company’s customers.
The domains taken down by Microsoft were so-called “homoglyph” domains registered to resemble those of legitimate business. This technique allowed the threat actors to impersonate companies when communicating with their clients.
According to the complaint filed by Microsoft last week (more details available in the court order), they used the domains registered via NameSilo LLC and KS Domains Ltd./Key-Systems GmbH as malicious infrastructure in BEC attacks against Office 365 customers and services.”
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April 26th, 2021 by hankshelp
“A ransomware gang has made $260,000 in just five days simply by remotely encrypting files on QNAP devices using the 7zip archive program.
Starting on Monday, QNAP NAS users from all over the world suddenly found their files encrypted after a ransomware operation called Qlocker exploited vulnerabilities on their devices.”
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January 20th, 2021 by hankshelp
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January 19th, 2021 by hankshelp
IObit forums hacked to spread ransomware to its members
“Windows utility developer IObit was hacked over the weekend to perform a widespread attack to distribute the strange DeroHE ransomware to its forum members.”
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January 19th, 2021 by hankshelp
Joker’s Stash Carding Market to Call it Quits
Joker’s Stash, by some accounts the largest underground shop for selling stolen credit card and identity data, says it’s closing up shop effective mid-February 2021. The announcement came on the heels of a turbulent year for the major cybercrime store, and just weeks after U.S. and European authorities seized a number of its servers.
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October 2nd, 2020 by hankshelp
“The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today said that organizations that assist ransomware victims to make ransom payments are facing sanctions risks as their actions could violate OFAC regulations.”
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January 4th, 2020 by hankshelp
“An Arkansas-based telemarketing firm sent home more than 300 employees and told them to find new jobs after IT recovery efforts didn’t go according to plan following a ransomware incident that took place at the start of October 2019.”
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