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Compromise could have been avoided if the affected organization had listened to the experts recommendations in time. As a result of a large-scale data security breach of France's largest employment agency, the personal information of more than 43 million citizens was compromised. The event...

How search engine advertising has become a powerful tool for hackers. Recent research has revealed that Chinese users who search for official versions of programs such as Notepad++ and VNote through search engines like Baidu are increasingly becoming victims of sophisticated attackers. Attacks...

The group used phishing sites to steal money from bank cards. The trial of a young programmer accused of participating in a large-scale hacker operation has ended in Belarus. The group, consisting of about 700 people, used phishing sites to steal money from bank cards. Fraudsters operated...

The original of this material © Kommersant, 19.03.2021, The Dark Side of the Darknet, Illustrations: Kommersant Yulia Stepanova, Yulia Tishina The shadow market for trading in personal data and access to IT infrastructure is a phenomenon that cannot be ignored, if only because of its impact on...

Users of Roblox and OpenAI services were particularly affected. Kaspersky Lab has discovered that in three years, hackers stole more than 36 million pairs of usernames and passwords* from various services related to artificial intelligence and gaming accounts. In the period from 2021 to 2023...

Fraudsters masterfully take advantage of the weaknesses and slowness of business, stealing money from the owners and counterparties of companies, said lawyer Roman Bubnov. Corporate executives often underestimate criminals, believing that cyber scammers only hunt individuals. They focus on the...

Hackers were especially interested in retirement savings… In November 2023, the Indian company Infosys, one of the world's largest software vendors, caused a large-scale data leak affecting Bank of America customers. According to an official statement released on November 3 , Infosys ' U.S...

Perhaps your genome is already waiting for its buyer on the shelves of the shadow market. In the fall of 2023, a hacker under the pseudonym Golem posted an announcement on a cybercrime forum about hacking the database of 23andMe, one of the largest DNA testing companies on the market. Later...

Technical problems led to unexpected consequences. Georgia authorities have announced a manhunt for 30-year-old Zion Rivera Shaq, a murder suspect who was mistakenly released by Clayton County authorities last week. Last week, Shaka was transferred from the Fulton County Jail to the Clayton...

The court recovered more than 1 million rubles from a resident of Tatarstan, who provided cybercriminals with her data for issuing a fictitious account, the press service of the Prosecutor's office of the Volgograd region reports. As follows from the materials of the criminal case, in March...

China is struggling with the leakage of hundreds of billions of dollars of capital through illegal casinos and crypto exchanges. A new report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) states that international criminal networks are using autonomous territories controlled by...

Recorded Future highlights the global growth of the threat posed by legitimate platforms. According to a recent report by Recorded Future, the developer platform GitHub has recently become a popular tool for hackers who use it to host and deliver malware. The platform provides attackers with...

Exposing a hidden threat that threatens millions of users. Over the past 11 months, a campaign has been actively conducted to distribute AsyncRAT malware aimed at selective targets. This campaign uses hundreds of unique uploaders and more than 100 domains. AsyncRAT is an open source remote...

Elimination of Hive, withdrawal of ALPHV systems and other victories of the police over evil in the past year. In 2023, we will witness numerous law enforcement operations aimed at combating cybercrime, including cryptocurrency fraud, phishing attacks, identity theft, malware development, and...

The authors of the program have introduced significant improvements, making it a powerful tool for cybercriminals. Resecurity's HUNTER division has noticed the release of a new version (2.2) of the Meduza Stealer malware in the dark Internet segment. This update includes support for more client...

Will ransomware be able to regain its position in the dark community? As a result of a large-scale FBI operation against the ALPHV group (BlackCat), the cybercrime group faced serious problems. The FBI has seized ALPHV's domain space on the dark web, which could damage its reputation and...

ChatGPT and analogs turned out to be of little use in real-world scenarios, only taking up valuable time for attackers. Despite the concerns of security researchers and law enforcement agencies in some countries about the malicious use of ChatGPT and similar LLM models, a study of cybercrime...

The Philippine authorities announced the seizure of a record batch of SIM cards in the city of Pasig, which should have been, but did not come to the disposal of fraudsters and cybercriminals. Local media with reference to the Center for Investigation and Coordination of Cybercrime (CICC) report...

In the United States, they calculated the damage caused by the cybercrime industry to various states. This was done by VPNpro analysts after reviewing the report of the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) for 2022. Alabama, New York and Massachusetts were named the leaders. In Alabama...

The HP Wolf Security report reveals details of an interesting fraudulent operation. HP Wolf Security discovered a unique case of fraud in the cybercrime industry. In the course of monitoring the dark corners of the Internet for their quarterly report, experts identified fake malware developed...