By Diana Brown Cisco Talos has recently observed an increase in activity that is leveraging notification pipelines in popular collaboration platforms to deliver spam and phishing emails. These emails are transmitted using the legitimate mail delivery infrastructure associated with GitHub and Jira, minimizing the likelihood that they will be blocked in transit to potential victims. By taking advantage of...Read More
Iranian-linked hacking group Handala has leaked an image that they claim is of the Elbit System Hermes Drone’s core design team. Elbit Systems is widely considered to be the backbone of Israel’s UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) infrastructure. The statement released by Handala also mentioned that further details including names of the individuals and other additional...Read More
BROCKTON, Mass. — A hospital on the South Shore of Massachusetts is diverting ambulances and canceling some treatments and procedures following what it’s calling a cybersecurity incident. The emergency room at Brockton Hospital at 680 Centre Street remains open, as do some inpatient services, but other services are being canceled as Signature Healthcare works through...Read More
“While the threat actor typically uses N-day vulnerabilities, we have also observed Storm-1175 leveraging zero-day exploits, in some cases a full week before public vulnerability disclosure,” Microsoft said in a blog post. “The threat actor has also been observed chaining together multiple exploits to enable post-compromise activity.” Microsoft said the group has exploited more than...Read More
German police have identified two Russian hackers and are calling for help tracking them down. The German Federal Criminal Police (BKA) said that 31-year-old Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin, who went by the handle ‘UNKN’, was behind the Russian ransomware groups GandCrab and REvil. He is suspected of having carried out 130 incidents of gang-related extortion against...Read More
Hyderabad: In a major crackdown on cybercrime, the Cyber Crime Police here conducted extensive inter-state operations in March, leading to the arrest of 20 accused persons across five states and the recovery of over Rs 1.59 crore, which was refunded to victims. According to the Additional Commissioner of Police (Crimes & SIT) M Srinivasulu, the...Read More
“All of us live in the dark most of the year, and we don’t have anything better to do than build,” says an organiser of one of a new wave of hacker houses which have cropped up in recent months across Scandinavia and the Baltics. This resurgence in hacker houses can be seen all across...Read More
What difference did you notice between CEH and CPENT in terms of skills and knowledge? For me, CEH was the foundation, and CPENT was the transformation. CEH gave me the theory, tools, and structured understanding of ethical hacking. It was the starting point for building my foundation, where I learned concepts, attack phases, and common...Read More
The Federal Police in Germany (BKA) has identified two Russian nationals as the leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware operations between 2019 and 2021. According to BKA’s disclosure, 31-year-old Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin and 43-year-old Anatoly Sergeevitsch Kravchuk acted as the heads of the two ransomware groups “from at least the beginning of 2019 until at least July 2021.” Shchukin hid behind the...Read More
German authorities have identified Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin, a 31-year-old Russian national, as a key figure behind the REvil ransomware gang and its predecessor, the GandCrab ransomware network. Shchukin, known by the aliases “UNKN” or “UNKNOWN,” allegedly led both gangs and was involved in at least 130 cyberattacks targeting victims in Germany between 2019 and 2021....Read More
