reader comments 73 with 59 posters participating Share this story Telegram has exploded as a hub for cybercriminals looking to buy, sell, and share stolen data and hacking tools, new research shows, as the messaging app emerges as an alternative to the dark web. An investigation by cyber intelligence group Cyberint, together with the Financial ..
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An Illinois man who operated an infamous online service allowing users to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on selected targets was found guilty of three felonies. The man, Matthew Gatrel, 32, of St. Charles, was convicted for operating the DownThem “booting” service, through which subscribers would pay to have their targets of choice flooded with ..
Muhammad Fahd, a 35-year-old Pakistani national, has been sentenced to 12 years of prison in the United States for his role in a scheme that involved illegally unlocking AT&T phones and hacking into the telecoms giant’s systems. The scheme started in 2012, when Fahd and others recruited AT&T call center employees for help in unlocking ..
Microsoft on Thursday published additional guidance on addressing recently disclosed vulnerabilities in the Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) framework, along with new protections to resolve the bugs within affected Azure Virtual Machine (VM) management extensions. Microsoft’s guidance was published just as researchers noticed that one of the vulnerabilities is already being exploited in the wild. It ..
Suspected hackers last month briefly disrupted the website of the authority running Germany’s September 26 general election, a spokesman for the body told AFP Wednesday. The development, first reported by Business Insider, comes as German federal prosecutors probe alleged cyber attacks against lawmakers during the campaign to choose a new parliament and a successor to ..
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Coast Guard Cyber Command (CGCYBER) have sounded the alarm over in-the-wild attacks targeting a recently disclosed vulnerability in Zoho’s ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus product. Tracked as CVE-2021-40539 and rated critical severity (CVSS score of 9.8), the vulnerability has been exploited ..
Dopo quasi 4 giorni dall’attacco informatico di tipo “ransomware” che ha preso in ostaggio i server e l’infrastruttura IT, il sistema informatico dell’ospedale San Giovanni-Addolorata di Roma non mostra segni di vita. Da lunedì scorso, infatti, medici e infermieri si sono dovuti attrezzare con “carta e penna” per gestire l’enorme mole di dati quotidiani. Fuori ..
Unfortunately for the law-abiding of the world, ransomware is an idea that caught on immediately and never lost steam. In fact, it’s grown to the point that it now contributes to a thriving cybercrime business, often targeting large sectors, including education, finance, healthcare, the legal sector, and manufacturing. According to Fortinet research, by the end ..
Payments giant Mastercard (NYSE: MA) announced Thursday that it has agreed to acquire cryptocurrency intelligence and blockchain analytics company CipherTrace for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2015, CipherTrace focuses on crypto-currency intelligence, anti-money laundering (AML), blockchain analytics and forensics, and compliance solutions. The company first started tracking Bitcoin criminal activity in 2011, and claims to ..
A Canadian and U.S. dual-national was sentenced to 11 years in prison for laundering illicit funds from cybercrime schemes such as business email compromise, ATM cash-outs, and bank cyber-heists. The man, Ghaleb Alaumary, 36, of Mississauga, Ontario, pleaded guilty to two counts of money laundering conspiracy and received a 140-months prison sentence. He was also ..
