Authorities in Finland and Europol on Tuesday announced the seizure of Piilopuoti, a drugs marketplace operating on the Tor network since May 2022. Designed to facilitate free and anonymous internet browsing and communication, the Tor network is also used by cybercriminals to conduct illegal activities, including the sales of malware, drugs, weapons, and other illicit ..
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BlackBerry is warning of a widespread campaign targeting online payment businesses with web skimmers for more than a year. Dubbed Silent Skimmer, the campaign initially focused on organizations in the APAC region, but has been targeting businesses in Canada and the United States as well since October 2022, and appears to be expanding to new ..
Russian hacker Dariy Pankov has pleaded guilty to computer fraud and now faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison, according to an announcement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Pankov, who was extradited from the Eastern European country of Georgia earlier this year, was charged with developing and selling a piece of malware ..
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Google-owned Mandiant says the financially motivated threat actor responsible for the recent MGM Resorts hack has been expanding its targets, as well as its monetization strategies. Tracked as UNC3944 and also referred to as 0ktapus, Scatter Swine, and Scattered Spider, the hacking group has targeted at least 100 organizations, mostly in the United States and ..
A recently introduced Google account sync feature has been blamed by software development firm Retool after sophisticated hackers gained access to its systems and targeted over two dozen of its customers from the cryptocurrency sector. Retool is a San Francisco, California-based company that provides a development platform designed for building custom business tools without the ..
Personal details of thousands of police officers and staff from Greater Manchester Police have been hacked from a company that makes identity cards, the second such cyberattack to affect a major British police force in less than a month. Details on identity badges and warrant cards, including names, photos and identity numbers or police collar ..
North Korean hackers are suspected of stealing roughly $53 million worth of cryptocurrency from crypto exchange CoinEx, after a private key was leaked. The incident was identified on September 12, when the exchange observed “anomalous withdrawals from several hot wallet addresses” in which CoinEx was temporarily storing user assets. “It is currently preliminarily determined that ..
Airbus has launched an investigation after a hacker leaked information allegedly stolen from the French aerospace giant’s systems. Cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock reported on Tuesday that a hacker who uses the online moniker ‘USDoD’ claimed earlier this month on a cybercrime forum that they had hacked Airbus. The same hacker previously claimed to have ..
Iran-linked cyberespionage group Charming Kitten has been observed infecting 34 victims with a new backdoor, cybersecurity firm ESET reports. Believed to be operating on behalf of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and also tracked as APT42, Ballistic Bobcat, Mint Sandstorm (formerly Phosphorus), and NewsBeef, Charming Kitten has been targeting activists, government organizations and journalists ..
