One telemedicine scheme involved telemarketers targeting elderly and disabled patients, resulting in $1.9 billion in allegedly fraudulent claims to Medicare and other government insurers.

“This is an active campaign in which the attacker leverages SSH for remote access, running malicious scripts that stealthily enlist victim servers into a P2P proxy network, such as Peer2Profit or Honeygain,” Akamai researcher Allen West said.

The exploitation of remote services like VPNs and RDP was the most commonly seen attack technique last year, according to the Annual Cyber-Threat Report 2023 from ReliaQuest.

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The primary cause of cyberattacks against Japanese computer systems is the strength and quality of its manufacturing base. The size of Japanese manufacturers makes them an attractive target for criminal extortion.

The Iranian state-sponsored group dubbed MuddyWater has been attributed to a previously unseen command-and-control (C2) framework called PhonyC2 that’s been put to use by the actor since 2021.

The volume of mobile malware, phishing sites dedicated to mobiles, and mobile vulnerabilities increased significantly in 2022, according to the Global Mobile Threat Report 2023 from Zimperium.

According to analysis in the Acronis Mid-Year Cyberthreats Report 2023 LockBit’s known victims totaled 280 (49% of the total reviewed) and included the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA), Aguas do Porto, and Wabtec Corporation.

In a new report, Sekoia analysts say that the DDoSia platform has grown significantly over the year, reaching 10,000 active members contributing firepower to the project’s DDoS attacks and 45,000 subscribers on its main Telegram channel.

There are multiple discrepancies in how the European Commission allocates funds to the cyber agency, Juhan Lepassaar, the executive director of the EU Agency for Cybersecurity, said during a Tuesday parliamentary hearing evaluating allocated budgets.