French authorities have dismantled their third dark web marketplace over the last four years after they seized control of “Le Monde Parallèle” (The Parallel World) last week.
Potential victims are sent phishing documents branded with the UNHRC logo. Named UgyhurApplicationList.docx, this document contains decoy material relating to discussions of human rights violations.
A malware attack on Crown Corporation has caused a data breach affecting 44 of the company’s large business clients and their 950,000 receiving customers, the postal agency confirmed Wednesday.
According to Masatoshi Fujitani, president of the Tokyo-based Japan Forum for Strategic Studies (JFSS), the Summer Olympics in Tokyo are likely to be targeted by cyberattacks.
The report also mentioned that hackers had used the cloud storage facilities of Russia’s leading technology firms, Yandex and Mail.ru, to help exfiltrate data stolen from the government agencies.
Ransomware is not just a type of malware – it’s also at the center of a sophisticated, flourishing underground economy that has all the conventions of legitimate commerce.
Stolen API keys are being increasingly sold on hacker forums. Cyber adversaries are exploiting cryptocurrency exchange API keys and using them to steal cryptocurrencies from victims.
While these numbers point to the fact that people are more aware and thus, are logging their complaints, they also signify that a greater number of people are being impacted by online scams.
A new type of cybercriminal is emerging in the cyber landscape that’s historically been dominated by state-sponsored actors and financially-motivated criminals that are hunted by law enforcement.
This is not the first time researchers spotted double encryption. It usually happens when two distinct ransomware groups compromise the same victim at the same time.