Intel 471
Why Malware Crypting Services Deserve More Scrutiny
If you operate a cybercrime business that relies on disseminating malicious software, you probably also spend a good deal of time trying to disguise or "crypt" your malware so that it appears ...
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 of software has not been altered or tampered with. Both of these ...
$10M Is Yours If You Can Get This Guy to Leave Russia
The U.S. government this week put a $10 million bounty on the head of a Russian man who for the past 18 years operated Try2Check, one of the cybercrime underground's most trusted ...
FBI Seizes Bot Shop ‘Genesis Market’ Amid Arrests Targeting Operators, Suppliers
Several domain names tied to Genesis Market, a bustling cybercrime store that sold access to passwords and other data stolen from millions of computers infected with malicious software, were seized by the ...
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 service called BHProxies, which offers paying customers the ability to route their ...
Malware Families Love Telegram, Discord as Much as Users
Messaging apps like Discord and Telegram have become a conduit for malware, as their popularity grows among users who want to create and share programs on the platforms. These bots may facilitate ...
Breach Exposes Users of Microleaves Proxy Service
Microleaves, a ten-year-old proxy service that lets customers route their web traffic through millions of Microsoft Windows computers, exposed their entire user database and the location of tens of millions of PCs ...
A Retrospective on the 2015 Ashley Madison Breach
It's been seven years since the online cheating site AshleyMadison.com was hacked and highly sensitive data about its users posted online. The leak led to the public shaming and extortion of many ...
HavanaCrypt Ransomware Poses as Google Update
Ransomware remains popular in large part because it works. In that sense, it’s not surprising, although it is alarming, that Trend Micro found it had detected and blocked more than 4.4 million ...
Cybercriminals Hit Travel and Hospitality – Hard
As if travel and travel-related activities aren’t fraught enough after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, cybercriminals have added an extra layer of turmoil, promoting scams to take advantage of people ready ...
