The duo are convicted of infecting 400,000 computers in the U.S. with malware and scamming victims out of millions of dollars. A Romanian duo has been convicted for infecting hundreds of thousands of computers with malware that scooped up credentials and financial information, and scamming victims out of millions of dollars. The two, Bogdan Nicolescu, 36, and Radu Miclaus, 37, ...

A vast majority of organizations are still unprepared to properly respond to cybersecurity incidents, with 77 percent of survey respondents indicating they do not have a cybersecurity incident response plan applied consistently across the enterprise. The 2019 Cyber Resilient Organization study from IBM Resilient also found that of the organizations that do have a plan in place, more than half (54 percent) ...

The official website of Uniden has been compromised to host an MS Word document that delivers a variant of the Emotet trojan known as Geodo and Heodo. The malicious Word document is capable of delivering three JavaScript payloads and all three payloads have signatures for Geodo. What is the issue – abuse.ch’s URLhaus project uncovered that the official website of Uniden ...

Threat actors revive old email conversation threads to inject a link to an Emotet-infected file. The tactic has been previously used by a North Korean hacker group to target various individuals. The operators of Emotet trojan have evolved their tactics to spread the malware. Lately, they have been observed reviving old email conversation threads to inject a link to an ...

GREENVILLE, NC (WITN) – Most city-owned computers remain offline for the second day as the FBI has joined in the investigation into the ransomware attack. The city shut down most computers early Wednesday after a police department employee noticed the virus. A city spokesman said they are victims of the “RobbinHood” ransomware, but they will not say how much the ransomware ...

Three waves of DNS hijacking attacks against consumer routers have been linked back to Google Cloud Platform abuse. Hackers have been abusing Google’s cloud computing service to redirect and intercept web and mail traffic on an array of vulnerable consumer routers. A researcher said that he has seen the Google Cloud Platform being abused to carry out three separate waves of DNS ...

There are Facebooks groups for moms, people who like trains, or old photographs of Chicago so it should come as no surprise that cybercriminals also use the social media network to discuss what they like. Cisco Talos found 74 Facebook groups with more than 385,000 members with dedicated to acts ranging from shady to illegal. “In all, Talos has compiled ...

London Blue scammers were spotted running BEC scams against employees in Asia who are working for companies in the US, Australia, or Europe. London Blue scammers are spoofing the email address of the target company’s CEO in order to add more authenticity to their scam emails. What is the issue – London Blue scammers were spotted running BEC scams against employees ...

Researchers say that two publicly exposed dataset are leaking Facebook data- from user names to plaintext passwords. Hundreds of millions of Facebook records – including account names, personal data, and more – have been found in two separate publicly-exposed app datasets. The first publicly-exposed dataset originates from a Mexico-based media company, Cultura Colectiva, and contains over 540 million records including ...

Google security researcher Matthew Garrett publicly released a zero day vulnerability he discovered in the TP-Link SR20 router smart home hub in one device. The device is designed to integrate with a user’s home automation kit that allows them to use the device as the core of their home network and to work with other smart devices. The vulnerability could ...