Daily Cyber Brief
Anonymous continues attacks on Russian companies, US sanctions crypto mixer used by North Korea, and Mustang Panda continues espionage against US...
Cybersecurity
The Anonymous affiliated Network Battalion aka NB65 group has allegedly targeted a Russian payment processing platform Qiwi and leaked 7 million payment card data as proof of hack. On May 1st, 2022, NB65, one of the Anonymous affiliate hacktivist groups…
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has initiated a probe into a pseudonymous Facebook account, created by Pakistani spy agency ISI, to remotely inject a concealed malware in the computers, phones and other devices of defence personnel, staff working…
The U.S. State Department is offering $10 million for any information that leads to the identification or location of people connected to the notorious Conti ransomware gang. An additional $5 million reward is also being offered for any information that leads to the arrest…
Activity dubbed ‘Raspberry Robin’ uses Microsoft Standard Installer and other legitimate processes to communicate with threat actors and execute nefarious commands. Wormable malware dubbed Raspberry Robin has been active since last September and is wriggling its…
The RubyGems package repository has fixed a critical vulnerability that would allow anyone to unpublish ("yank") certain Ruby packages from the repository and republish their tainted or malicious versions with the same file names and version numbers…
A credit card stealing service is growing in popularity, allowing any low-skilled threat actors an easy and automated way to get started in the world of financial fraud. Credit card skimmers are malicious scripts that are injected into hacked e-commerce websites that quietly…
The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday moved to sanction virtual currency mixer Blender.io, marking the first time a mixing service has been subjected to economic blockades. The move signals continued efforts on the part of the government to prevent North Korea's Lazarus…
Ikea Canada has confirmed that an employee compromised a database of 95,000 Canadian customers. The employee performed unsanctioned searches of the database between March 1 and 3, Kristin Newbigging, public relations leader at Ikea Canada, explains to Dark…
The China-based threat actor known as Mustang Panda has been observed refining and retooling its tactics and malware to strike entities located in Asia, the European Union, Russia, and the U.S. "Mustang Panda is a highly motivated APT group relying primarily…
Fake cryptocurrency giveaways are stealing millions of dollars simply by replaying old Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey Ark Invest videos on YouTube. The scheme is the old “double your investment” ruse that promises to pay back twice the cryptocurrency amount the victim send…