A three-year-old investigation and prosecution of cybercriminals aligned with the multinational GozNym network resulted last week in the sentencing of a Bulgaria resident in a Pittsburgh federal court. In a related action, a Tbilisi, Georgia court handed down prison sentences of seven and nine years to two Georgian members of the group, following a lengthy trial. In…
Nearly three years after attempting to extort either $100,000 in cryptocurrency or a thousand $100 iTunes gift cards from Apple, a British hacker was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court in London to a two-year suspended jail term, 300 hours of unpaid work and a six-month electronic curfew. Kerem Albayrak, 22, of North London, told Apple in…
Among the banes of existence for any human living in the 21st century is the need to periodically choose, change and remember numerous passwords, which partly explains why nearly 3 percent of computer users chose 123456 in 2019. This according to , reports Teams ID. So, if you fall into this category it may just…
Drupal Core announced multiple critical vulnerabilities that impact some of its configurations for versions: 8.8.x-dev, 8.7.x-dev, and 7.x-dev. The Drupal project uses the third-party library Archive_Tar, which released a security update – SA-CORE-2019-012, according to a Dec. 18 advisory. Multiple vulnerabilities are possible if Drupal is configured to allow .tar, .tar.gz, .bz2 or .tlz file uploads and processes them. The latest versions…
The insidious nature of difficult-to-detect, multiple strains of malware working in tandem to unleash complete obliteration is on full display with the dropper Legion Loader. The quantity and variety of malware earned its reference as a “Hornet’s Nest,” explained report author Shaul Vilkomir-Preisman, an Israel-based malware & cyber intelligence expert at Deep Instinct, which said…
An alleged British hacker pleaded not guilty in a U.S. federal court in St. Louis, Mo., to a charge that he conspired to steal sensitive PII with the intention to release those records on criminal marketplaces unless victims paid ransoms. Nathan Wyatt, 39, purportedly a member of the “Dark Overload” hacking group, was extradited from…
Literally countless life or death situations were at stake. A large medical provider recently was hit with a ransomware attack request for $3.5 million. “They had to pay,” explains Ondrej Krehel, CEO of New York-based LIFARS, which managed the response. The medical company’s critical servers for its 300 locations were breached, and recovery from the…
Attribution is difficult and sometimes it seems that cybercriminals are beyond the long arm of the law. But hackers – some even foreign nationals – were increasingly brought to justice on both sides of the Atlantic in 2018 for various cybercrimes. They were indicted, arrested, convicted and, in many cases, sentenced and jailed for a…
A new report about a Nigeria-based cybercrime ring describes in detail how lonely targets are emotionally preyed upon and in some cases bilked of their life savings through romance scams. Citing data from the Better Business Bureau, Agari Cyber Intelligence Division (ACID) reports such scams have led to personal losses of nearly $1 billion in…
As the U.S. economy takes investors on a wild ride, turning all the usual indicators topsy-turvy and sparking concern that the bear will usurp the bull, one market seems to be on a perpetual upswing — cybercrime. Threat intelligence researchers agree that adversaries are well connected in the sophisticated virtual labyrinths of the dark web,…
