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  • "FSB Arrests REvil Ransomware Gang Members"

    Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) took down the ReVil ransom gang this week.  The raids took pace across Moscow, St. Petersburg, Leningrad, and the Lipetsk regions.  The FSB seized more than 426 rubles along with cryptocurrency wallets,…

  • "Google Voice Authentication Scam Leaves Victims on the Hook"

    Google Voice sent out a warning to users to watch out for this new scam using Google Voice Authentication.  If you post your phone number or email online, for example on a marketplace or lost pet site, a scammer may call you on it and ask to send…

  • "Washington Warns of POLARIS Breach"

    After detecting suspicious activity, the Washington State Department of Licensing (DOL) has shuttered its Professional Online Licensing and Regulatory Information System (POLARIS).  POLARIS stores information about license holders and applicants.…

  • "Business Services Firm Morley Discloses Data Breach Affecting 500,000 People"

    Business services company Morley was targeted in a ransomware attack that may have resulted in the information of more than 500,000 individuals getting stolen.  In letters sent to impacted individuals, Morley, which serves Fortune 500 and Global 500…

  • "Ransomware: Alphv/BlackCat Is DarkSide/BlackMatter Reboot"

    Security researchers have discovered that the ransomware operation, Alphv, also known as BlackCat, is a reboot of the DarkSide/BlackMatter ransomware group. According to a threat analyst at the security firm Emsisoft, Alphv/BlackCat claims to be former…

  • "Crypto Firm Meter Loses $4.4m in Cyber-Heist"

    Yet another cryptocurrency firm has been hacked to the tune of millions of dollars.  Meter provides decentralized finance (DeFi) infrastructure services, linking siloed blockchains for users with so-called "cross-chain bridges." An unauthorized…

  • "Ransomware Groups Launch Surgical Attacks Due to Law Enforcement Action"

    Multiple law enforcement actions led to arrests and the shutdown of some ransomware activities in 2021, thus driving threat actors to reduce their targeting scope and increase efforts towards maximizing the effectiveness of their operations. Although…

  • "New CapraRAT Android Malware Targets Indian Government and Military Personnel"

    APT36, also known as Earth Karkaddan, is a politically motivated Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group believed to be operational since at least 2013 and composed of threat actors in Pakistan. In 2016, the group was found distributing information-…

  • "European Oil Port Terminals Hit By Cyberattack"

    Major oil terminals in some of Western Europe's biggest ports have been targeted in a cyberattack. Belgian prosecutors are investigating the hacking of oil facilities in the country's maritime entryways, including Europe's second-biggest port, Antwerp,…

  • "How Threat Actors Are Using npm to Launch Attacks"

    A report released by WhiteSource details malicious activity discovered in npm, a popular JavaScript package manager widely used among developers. The report is based on findings from over 1,300 malicious npm packages identified in 2021. JavaScript…

  • "Attackers Target Intuit Users by Threatening to Cancel Tax Accounts"

    The usual tax-season barrage of cybercriminal activity is already underway with a phishing campaign impersonating the popular accounting and tax-filing software.  Intuit is warning customers of a phishing campaign that threatens to close user…

  • "NFT Wash Trading Made Scammers at Least $9m in 2021"

    Security researchers at Chainalysis have found that cybercriminals are making and laundering millions through non-fungible tokens (NFTs).  NFTs are technically unique records on a blockchain that are each linked to a piece of digital content.  …