Authorities seized the domain of Virtualine , a bulletproof hosting provider that cybercriminals used to commit a large-scale sextortion scheme, ransomware, data theft, malware hosting and money laundering, the Justice Department said Tuesday. Virtualine facilitated prolific criminal activity, including the…
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U.S. law enforcement has seized the primary domain of Virtualine, a bulletproof hosting service advertised on cybercrime forums for facilitating illegal activities. [...]
Prosecutors announced charges against six alleged scammers based out of Africa who targeted Americans with fake non-fungible token (NFT) investment scams by posing as women on dating websites, netting hundreds of victims. According to an affidavit for the arrest of of the six people — Chui Kok Wa, Gislen Neukeu,…
Elections give scammers plenty to work with: urgent deadlines, familiar faces, passionate supporters, and messages asking people to take action. Some want you to “fix” your voter registration. Others want a donation, an answer to a survey, or payment for merchandise supposedly endorsed by your favorite politician. The…
SkyW4lker (SkyW4lker x365 Sentinel) is an active device-code phishing kit targeting Microsoft 365 users in the United States, Europe, and other regions. By abusing Microsoft’s legitimate authentication process, the kit can give attackers access to corporate accounts without stealing passwords or bypassing MFA. This…
Booking.com's systems were never breached. Its name was. Storm-1865 spent months borrowing Booking.com's identity to get into hotel computers, and every step of that borrowing left traces on the open internet. The open internet is exactly where Cyble Brand Intelligence & Protection works. Walk through the campaign one…
The New York Knicks organization sent employees a phishing email promising free championship rings in a test of its staff's ability to detect scams, The New York Times reported yesterday. “Congratulations, your Employee Championship Ring is here,” the email sent in late September said, instructing employees to click a…
The warnings are everywhere these days. Don’t click this. Don’t open that. Don’t scan this. Don’t download that. These messages of caution, however well-intended, are so ubiquitous and constant that it should come as no surprise that some people have started to tune them out. How many people? About one in three,…
Written by: Gabby Roncone, Wesley Shields Overview Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) is tracking three distinct suspected Russian cyber espionage threat clusters abusing legitimate authentication flows to target individuals working in academia, aerospace and defense, governments and think tanks across Europe, as…
A Mexican banking fraud operation we're tracking as REF6045 doesn't run on autopilot. A human operator is behind the wheel, monitoring infected machines and deciding what happens next. Victims are infected through fake CAPTCHA pages that trick them into running a single command, which installs SCMBANKER, a PowerShell…