Europol: 18k money mules caught laundering money from online fraud
Europol has announced the arrest of 1,803 money mules out of 18,351 identified following an international money-laundering crackdown operation codenamed "EMMA 7."…
VirusTotal Collections feature helps keep neat IoC lists
Scanning service VirusTotal announced today a new feature called Collections that lets researchers create and share reports with indicators of…
Microsoft Defender scares admins with Emotet false positives
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is currently blocking Office documents from being opened and some executables from launching due to a…
FBI seized $2.3M from affiliate of REvil, Gandcrab ransomware gangs
The FBI seized $2.2 million in August from a well-known REvil and GandCrab ransomware affiliate, according to court documents seen…
Finland warns of Flubot malware heavily targeting Android users
Finland's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-FI) has issued a "severe alert" to warn of a massive campaign targeting the country's…
Smartwatches for children are a privacy and security nightmare
Researchers analyzed the security of four popular smartwatches for children and found pre-installed downloaders, weak passwords, and unencrypted data transmissions.…
EwDoor botnet targets AT&T network edge devices at US firms
A recently discovered botnet is attacking unpatched AT&T enterprise network edge devices using exploits for a four-year-old critical severity Blind…
Android banking malware infects 300,000 Google Play users
Malware campaigns distributing Android trojans that steals online bank credentials have infected almost 300,000 devices through malicious apps pushed via…
Dark web market Cannazon shuts down after massive DDoS attack
Cannazon, one of the largest dark web marketplaces for buying marijuana products, shut down last week after suffering a debilitating…
Stealthy WIRTE hackers target governments in the Middle East
A stealthy hacking group named WIRTE has been linked to a government-targeting campaign conducting attacks since at least 2019 using…