cybercrime

Iranian Hacking Group’s Training Videos Available Online An Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) is a state-sponsored cyber-offensive group who perpetrare international acts of cyberwarfare against political enemies and opposing countries. Charming Kitten are an Iranian APT, famous for leaking episodes and scripts from HBO’s Game of Thrones in 2017. A elementary error by a member of the APT has left one of their cloud resources unsecured and accessible from the internet.

UK Second Most Targeted Country for Cyberattacks

By Dave McKay in cybercrime

July 21, 2020

Number Two for Serious Cyberattacks The UK is the second most frequent target of serious cyberattacks, according to a new report. Attacks classified as serious are ones attacking a country’s government agencies, critical infrastructure and high-tech companies, or financially inspired crimes that have netted proceeds to the value of one million dollars or more. There were 47 attacks of this type from May 2006 to June 2020, including the attack on the Labour Party’s during the 2019 general election.

Emotet Botnet Rides Again

By Dave McKay in cybercrime

July 18, 2020

Emotet Cybercrime Gang Back in the Saddle New attacks have been detected, launched from the Emotet botnet. Emotet was last used in anger in Feburary 2020. Emotet is sending out spam emails in an attemp to infect users with its malware payload. “Today’s campaign so far has recipients primarily in the US and UK with the lure being sent in English,” said Sherrod DeGrippo, Senior Director, Threat Research at Proofpoint

Update on Major Twitter Hack

By Dave McKay in cybercrime

July 18, 2020

Where’s Captain Kirk? Four participants in the Twitter hack that breached high-profile and verified Twitter accounts in a Bitcoin grabbing scam have given interviews to the New York Times. Their stories suggest that this was not an attack from a state-sponsored offensive cyber division, nor the work of organised crime. It was a group of 19 and 20 year olds who met online on a website/forum ostensibly for people who like to get in first on new platforms and register unusual, significant, or very short user names, (yes, that’s a thing), but actuall a website dedicated to hijacking accounts.

Major US Twitter Accounts Hacked in Bitcoin Scam

By Dave McKay in cybercrime

July 16, 2020

Billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates and other famous US figures had fake tweets sent out in their name. All of the tweets were designed to make the Titter-verse believe that these major figures were offering to double your money. If you sent them money in the form of the Bitcoin cryptocurrency they “promised” to pay it back in double. Evidently the threat actors gained access to Twitter administrative capabilities and by-passed the passwords on those accounts.