Cybersecurity researchers have taken the wraps of an organized financial-theft operation undertaken by a discreet actor to target transaction processing systems and siphon funds from entities primarily located in Latin America for at least four years. The malicious hacking group has been codenamed Elephant Beetle by Israeli incident response firm Sygnia, with the intrusions … [Read more...] about Researchers Uncover Hacker Group Behind Organized Financial-Theft Operation
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Russian TrickBot Gang Hacker Extradited to U.S. Charged with Cybercrime
A Russian national, who was arrested in South Korea last month and extradited to the U.S. on October 20, appeared in a federal court in the state of Ohio on Thursday to face charges for his alleged role as a member of the infamous TrickBot group."This is another success for the Department's recently launched Ransomware and Digital Extortion Task Force in dismantling ransomware … [Read more...] about Russian TrickBot Gang Hacker Extradited to U.S. Charged with Cybercrime
‘Lone Wolf’ Hacker Group Targeting Afghanistan and India with Commodity RATs
A new malware campaign targeting Afghanistan and India is exploiting a now-patched, 20-year-old flaw affecting Microsoft Office to deploy an array of commodity remote access trojans (RATs) that allow the adversary to gain complete control over the compromised endpoints. Cisco Talos attributed the cyber campaign to a "lone wolf" threat actor operating a Lahore-based fake IT … [Read more...] about ‘Lone Wolf’ Hacker Group Targeting Afghanistan and India with Commodity RATs
Tesla Ransomware Hacker Pleads Guilty; Swiss Hacktivist Charged for Fraud
The U.S. Department of Justice yesterday announced updates on two separate cases involving cyberattacks—a Swiss hacktivist and a Russian hacker who planned to plant malware in the Tesla company. A Swiss hacker who was involved in the intrusion of cloud-based surveillance firm Verkada and exposed camera footage from its customers was charged by the U.S. Department of Justice … [Read more...] about Tesla Ransomware Hacker Pleads Guilty; Swiss Hacktivist Charged for Fraud
Hezbollah Hacker Group Targeted Telecoms, Hosting, ISPs Worldwide
A "persistent attacker group" with alleged ties to Hezbollah has retooled its malware arsenal with a new version of a remote access Trojan (RAT) to break into companies worldwide and extract valuable information. In a new report published by the ClearSky research team on Thursday, the Israeli cybersecurity firm said it identified at least 250 public-facing web servers since … [Read more...] about Hezbollah Hacker Group Targeted Telecoms, Hosting, ISPs Worldwide
Russian Hacker Gets 12-Years Prison for Massive JP Morgan Chase Hack
A U.S. court on Thursday sentenced a 37-year-old Russian to 12 years in prison for perpetrating an international hacking campaign that resulted in the heist of a trove of personal information from several financial institutions, brokerage firms, financial news publishers, and other American companies. Andrei Tyurin was charged with computer intrusion, wire fraud, bank fraud, … [Read more...] about Russian Hacker Gets 12-Years Prison for Massive JP Morgan Chase Hack
A Second Hacker Group May Have Also Breached SolarWinds, Microsoft Says
As the probe into the SolarWinds supply chain attack continues, new digital forensic evidence has brought to light that a separate threat actor may have been abusing the IT infrastructure provider's Orion software to drop a similar persistent backdoor on target systems. "The investigation of the whole SolarWinds compromise led to the discovery of an additional malware that also … [Read more...] about A Second Hacker Group May Have Also Breached SolarWinds, Microsoft Says
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21-Year-Old Cypriot Hacker Extradited to U.S. Over Fraud and Extortion Charges
The United States Department of Justice has extradited two criminals from the Republic of Cyprus—one is a computer hacker suspected of cyber intrusions and extortion, and the other is a money launderer with known connections to the terrorist organization Hezbollah.Both suspects—Joshua Polloso Epifaniou, 21, a resident of Nicosia, and Ghassan Diab, 37, a citizen of Lebanon—were … [Read more...] about 21-Year-Old Cypriot Hacker Extradited to U.S. Over Fraud and Extortion Charges
Company Detected Years-Long Breach Only After Hacker Maxed Out Servers’ Storage
What could be even worse than getting hacked?It's the "failure to detect intrusions" that always results in huge losses to the organizations.Utah-based technology company InfoTrax Systems is the latest example of such a security blunder, as the company was breached more than 20 times from May 2014 until March 2016.What's ironic is that the company detected the breach only after … [Read more...] about Company Detected Years-Long Breach Only After Hacker Maxed Out Servers’ Storage