Cybersecurity firm Sophos impersonated by new SophosEncrypt ransomware
Cybersecurity vendor Sophos is being impersonated by a new ransomware-as-a-service called SophosEncrypt, with the threat actors using the company name…
New critical Citrix ADC and Gateway flaw exploited as zero-day
Citrix today is alerting customers of a critical-severity vulnerability (CVE-2023-3519) in NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway that already has exploits…
VirusTotal Data Leak Affects 5K+ Users
Some of the users who were impacted include the US Department of Justice, the NSA, and the FBI, alongside German…
Hacker Infected & Foiled by Own Infostealer
A prolific threat actor has been operating on Russian-language forums since 2020, but then he accidentally infected his own computer…
LeakedSource Owner Quit Ashley Madison a Month Before 2015 Hack
[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of…
FIN8 deploys ALPHV ransomware using Sardonic malware variant
A financially motivated cybercrime gang has been observed deploying BlackCat ransomware payloads on networks backdoored using a revamped Sardonic malware…
Police arrests Ukrainian scareware developer after 10-year hunt
The Spanish National Police has apprehended a Ukrainian national wanted internationally for his involvement in a scareware operation spanning from…
IT worker jailed for impersonating ransomware gang to extort employer
28-year-old Ashley Liles, a former IT employee, has been sentenced to over three years in prison for attempting to blackmail…
How Professional Human Hackers Choose Their Targets
By Peter Warmka, Founder, Counterintelligence Institute Over the past few years, Cybersecurity professionals have acknowledged the increasing need of security…
Genesis Market infrastructure and inventory sold on hacker forum
The administrators of the Genesis Market for stolen credentials announced on a hacker forum that they sold the store and…