Code-signing certificates are supposed to help authenticate the identity of software publishers, and provide cryptographic assurance that a signed piece…
Social networks are constantly battling inauthentic bot accounts that send direct messages to users promoting scam cryptocurrency investment platforms. What…
Ask Fitis, the Bear: Real Crooks Sign Their Malware
Code-signing certificates are supposed to help authenticate the identity of software publishers, and provide cryptographic assurance that a signed piece…
Google’s .zip, .mov Domains Give Social Engineers a Shiny New Tool
Security professionals warn that Google's new top-level domains, .zip and .mov, pose social engineering risks while providing little reason for…
Interview With a Crypto Scam Investment Spammer
Social networks are constantly battling inauthentic bot accounts that send direct messages to users promoting scam cryptocurrency investment platforms. What…
Promising Jobs at the U.S. Postal Service, ‘US Job Services’ Leaks Customer Data
A sprawling online company based in Georgia that has made tens of millions of dollars purporting to sell access to…
A Serial Tech Investment Scammer Takes Up Coding?
John Clifton Davies, a 60-year-old con man from the United Kingdom who fled the country in 2015 before being sentenced…
Low-Budget ‘Winter Vivern’ APT Awakens After 2-Year Hibernation
The "underreported" APT has returned to focus after attacks promoting Russian and Belarusian government interests and going after targets with…
Who’s Behind the NetWire Remote Access Trojan?
A Croatian national has been arrested for allegedly operating NetWire, a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) marketed on cybercrime forums since…
Who’s Behind the Botnet-Based Service BHProxies?
A security firm has discovered that a five-year-old crafty botnet known as Mylobot appears to be powering a residential proxy…
Rising ‘Firebrick Ostrich’ BEC Group Launches Industrial-Scale Cyberattacks
The group's wanton attacks demonstrate that business email compromise is everything a hacker can want in one package: low risk,…
BlackProxies proxy service increasingly popular among hackers
A new residential proxy market is becoming popular among hackers, cybercriminals, phishers, scalpers, and scammers, selling access to a million…