The ringleader of a fraudulent tax preparation business named Ariel Jimenez was punished for 12 years in prison for selling stolen identities of thousands of minors on welfare. The tax fraudster also aids its customers by falsely claiming tax credits, resulting in millions of tax losses. Jimenez’s customers used stolen identity information such as names,...Continue Reading
A network of cybercriminal call centres used for financial scams and crypto heists is taken down by the National Police of Ukraine. Based on reports, these call centres are targeting victims of cryptocurrency scams and offering them a helping hand to recover their funds. However, instead of helping the victims, the threat actors will make...Continue Reading
Authorities arrested a malware developer from Australia after developing and selling the Imminent Monitor RAT (remote access trojan) to threat actors on the dark web, utilised for spying on victims. The trade of RAT variants on underground forums is quite a popular activity between malware developers and threat actors since RATs offer a wide array...Continue Reading
Google has started the rollout of a new method that could help users block Google Calendar invitation spams, most likely sent by phishing actors to victimise people. This new release is available for all Google’s clients, including Business and G Suite Basic users. According to a blog posted by the Google Workspace team, they shared...Continue Reading
The prevalence of hack-for-hire campaigns worldwide has forced Google to block several malicious domains and websites that are used in attacking targets from across the world. Their clients employ these hired hackers to perform cyberattacks on a targeted victim, such as hacking or spying. The clients also use these services to conceal themselves if the...Continue Reading
Cybersecurity authorities have taken down an infrastructure used by a Russian botnet, RSOCKS, that compromised millions of internet-connected devices and computers worldwide. The threat actors have utilised the botnet to execute credential-stuffing attacks against hacked devices, an attack tactic that automatically enters a user’s login credentials on login pages of websites. The DOJ’s published press...Continue Reading
For this year, several dark web domains that trade data from cybercriminal activities have been seized and shut down by the US law enforcement agencies. Last June 7, a new announcement of malicious site seizure was published, which involved the SSNDOB marketplace – a dark web marketplace selling over 24 million stolen social security numbers....Continue Reading
After India announced requiring VPN service providers to retain their clients’ logs for 180 days, some have decided to pull out their services from the country, including Surfshark and ExpressVPN. This decision follows the strict policy of the VPN providers about collecting customers’ logs such as their IP addresses, browsing history, network traffic, session data,...Continue Reading
Last April, the notorious stolen database marketplace RaidForums was seized by the US authorities, alongside the arrest of its founder Diogo Santos Coelho. And just recently, three more malicious dark web portals were announced to have been seized by the FBI and the DOJ, including IPStress, WeLeakInfo, and OVH-Booter. These three cybercrime domains are reported...Continue Reading
A French-Venezuelan cybercriminal named Moises Luis Zagala Gonzalez had been detained for forming two ransomware strains dubbed Thanos and Jigsaw version 2. The US DoJ disclosed the report about Zagala, a cardiologist, who successfully conducted hackings alongside ransomware development to be sold to other cybercriminals. The law enforcement agency also added that Zagala’s crimes are...Continue Reading
