IT Security News

  • Cyberattackers Put the Pedal to the Medal: Podcast

    Fortinet's Derek Manky discusses the exponential increase in the speed that attackers weaponize fresh vulnerabilities, where botnets and offensive automation fit in, and the ramifications for security teams.

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  • Karakurt Ensnares Conti, Diavol Ransomware Groups in Its Web

    Connections that show the cybercriminal teams are working together signal shifts in their respective tactics and an expansion of opportunities to target victims.

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  • Feds: APTs Have Tools That Can Take Over Critical Infrastructure

    Threat actors have developed custom modules to compromise various ICS devices as well as Windows workstations that pose an imminent threat, particularly to energy providers.

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  • Feds Shut Down RaidForums Hacking Marketplace

    The DoJ is charging its founder, 21-year-old Portuguese citizen Diogo Santos Coelho, on six criminal counts, including conspiracy, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft.

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  • Microsoft Patch Tuesday, April 2022 Edition

    Microsoft on Tuesday released updates to fix roughly 120 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software. Two of the flaws have been publicly detailed prior to this week, and one is already seeing active exploitation, according to a report from the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA).

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  • Microsoft Zero-Days, Wormable Bugs Spark Concern

    For April Patch Tuesday, the computing giant addressed a zero-day under active attack and several critical security vulnerabilities, including three that allow self-propagating exploits.

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  • RaidForums Gets Raided, Alleged Admin Arrested

    The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said today it seized the website and user database for RaidForums, an extremely popular English-language cybercrime forum that sold access to more than 10 billion consumer records stolen in some of the world's largest data breaches since 2015. The DOJ also charged the alleged administrator of RaidForums -- 21-year-old Diogo Santos Coelho, of Portugal -- with six criminal counts, including conspiracy, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft.

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  • Menswear Brand Zegna Reveals Ransomware Attack

    Accounting materials from the Italy-based luxury fashion house were leaked online by RansomExx because the company refused to pay.

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  • Microsoft Takes Down Domains Used in Cyberattack Against Ukraine

    The APT28 (Advanced persistence threat) is operating since 2009, this group has worked under different names such as Sofacy, Sednit, Strontium Storm, Fancy Bear, Iron Twilight, and Pawn.

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  • Double-Your-Crypto Scams Share Crypto Scam Host

    Online scams that try to separate the unwary from their cryptocurrency are a dime a dozen, but a great many seemingly disparate crypto scam websites tend to rely on the same dodgy infrastructure providers to remain online in the face of massive fraud and abuse complaints from their erstwhile customers. Here's a closer look at hundreds of phony crypto investment schemes that are all connected through a hosting provider which caters to people running crypto scams.

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