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Hackers Steal Around $200 Million From Crypto Lender Euler Finance

14 March 2023
According to PeckShield, hackers exploited Euler “in a flurry of transactions” which led to the theft of around $197 million in crypto. Crypto security firm BlockSec also reported the attack.

Fighting financial fraud through fusion centers

14 March 2023
Cyberattacks and fraud are now too closely linked to be considered separately. But many firms still have investigative fraud teams and cybersecurity teams operating independently, along with the systems and processes that support them.

Clop ransomware gang begins extorting GoAnywhere zero-day victims

14 March 2023
The Clop ransomware gang has begun extorting companies whose data was stolen using a zero-day flaw in the Fortra GoAnywhere MFT secure file-sharing solution. The extortion group said they used the flaw over ten days to steal data from 130 companies.

Dissecting the malicious arsenal of the Makop ransomware gang

14 March 2023
Makop ransomware operations are based on the human operator ransomware practice where most of the intrusion is handled by hands-on keyboard criminals, even in the encryption stage.

Microsoft Warns of Large-Scale Use of Phishing Kits to Send Millions of Emails Daily

14 March 2023
An open source adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing kit has found a number of takers in the cybercrime world for its ability to orchestrate attacks at scale. Microsoft Threat Intelligence is tracking the threat actor behind the development of the kit under its emerging moniker DEV-1101. An AiTM phishing attack typically involves a threat actor attempting to steal and intercept a target's

Fortinet FortiOS Flaw Exploited in Targeted Cyberattacks on Government Entities

14 March 2023
The zero-day flaw in question is CVE-2022-41328 (CVSS score: 6.5), a medium security path traversal bug in Fortinet's FortiOS that could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Taiwan: Shopee, Carousell most popular platforms used by phishing scammers

14 March 2023
The attacks were aimed at stealing personal or business information used by customers to carry out online transactions, and the information was then used to conduct scams such as canceling installment payment setups, according to the CIB.

Death registry system in Hawaii had data breach, health department says

14 March 2023
Hawaii’s Department of Health says it is sending out breach notification letters after a cyberattack in January gave hackers limited access to the state’s death registry.

Update: Los Angeles Housing Authority Discloses Data Breach After it Suffers Ransomware Attack

14 March 2023
According to its data breach notice, HACLA discovered on December 31, 2022, that files on its computer systems were encrypted. This prompted the agency to shut down its servers and launch an investigation.

Fortinet FortiOS Flaw Exploited in Targeted Cyberattacks on Government Entities

14 March 2023
Government entities and large organizations have been targeted by an unknown threat actor by exploiting a security flaw in Fortinet FortiOS software to result in data loss and OS and file corruption. "The complexity of the exploit suggests an advanced actor and that it is highly targeted at governmental or government-related targets," Fortinet researchers Guillaume Lovet and Alex Kong said in an

International leaders to take centre stage at CYBERUK 2023 in Belfast

13 March 2023
Top security officials from the U.S., Canada, New Zealand and Singapore amongst speakers for CYBERUK 2023 announced today.

A shocking truth: One in five government employees, indifferent to workplace hacks

13 March 2023
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Around the globe, cyber risks are intensifying. Responding to these growing challenges requires developing new partnerships, encouraging inter-departmental collaboration, pursuing innovative cyber security solutions, and promoting employee security awareness and engagement, among other things. In honing in on employee engagement, new survey findings suggest that there is a significant disconnect between CISO expectations […] The post A shocking truth: One in five government employees, indifferent to workplace hacks appeared first on CyberTalk.

Golang-based GoBruteforcer Malware Targets Popular Web Services

13 March 2023
GoBruteforcer, a new Golang-based botnet, has been seen scanning and infecting well-known web servers including FTP and MySQL, and deploys an IRC bot to communicate. At the time of the attack, GoBruteforcer uses a Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) block for scanning the network. The best way to avoid threats originating from brute forcers is to change default passwords and implement a strong password policy including 2FA.

Hackers Push BatLoader via Google Search Ads

13 March 2023
BATLOADER, the notorious malware loader, was seen exploiting Google Ads to deliver secondary payloads such as Vidar Stealer and Ursnif. In their ads, attackers fake legitimate apps and services such as Adobe, Tableau, ChatGPT, Spotify, and Zoom. Other samples of BATLOADER display enhanced capability to establish persistence inside compromised networks.

Large-scale Cyber Campaign Hijacks East Asian Websites for Adult Content Redirects

13 March 2023
A widespread malicious cyber operation has hijacked thousands of websites aimed at East Asian audiences to redirect visitors to adult-themed content since early September 2022.

China-linked Hackers Abuse SonicWall SMA Devices

13 March 2023
UNC4540, a China-linked cybercriminal group, was observed deploying a custom backdoor on a SonicWall SMA appliance. Attackers show a thorough understanding of the appliance and use a set of malicious files to obtain privileges. The malware is capable of extracting credentials, achieving persistence through firmware upgrades, and remotely executing code.

Investment Fraud is Now Biggest Cybercrime Earner

13 March 2023
Total cybercrime losses for 2022 were estimated at $10.3bn by the FBI's IC3 on the back of nearly 801,000 complaints. Although the latter figure rose 49% on the previous year’s total, the number of complaints actually fell by over 46,000.

Estonian official says parliamentary elections were targeted by cyberattacks

13 March 2023
Gert Auväärt, head of the National Cyber Security Centre-Estonia (NCSC-EE), told The Record that his team had been in a “heightened awareness level for two weeks” during the campaign, and that attempts to enter the electoral system were unsuccessful.

Zoll Medical Discloses Data Breach Impacting One Million Individuals

13 March 2023
Medical technology developer Zoll Medical is notifying roughly one million individuals that their personal information might have been compromised in a recent data breach.

The SVB demise is a fraudster’s paradise, so take precautions

13 March 2023
The frenzy around the SVB collapse presents a huge opportunity for cybercriminals, and it creates a cyber risk for thousands of SVB account holders, and their customers and suppliers.