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Brute-Force Attacks Target Inboxes for Gift Card Data

03

Sep

2021

Threat actors are compromising up to 100,000 inboxes daily in a campaign that targets gift card and customer-loyalty program data in hopes of reselling it or cashing in on freebies, a security researcher has found. The actors behind the scam—outlined in a post by Brian Krebs on Krebs on Security—have been “mass-testing millions of usernames […]

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Cybercriminals Target Industrial Organizations in Information Theft Campaign

04

Mar

2021

The campaign was detailed in September 2020 by cybersecurity firm Zscaler, which warned at the time that the hackers had been targeting oil and gas supply chain industries in the Middle East using the trojan known as AZORult. These attacks are ongoing, according to DeNexus, a California-based provider of cyber risk modeling for industrial networks, […]

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Malware Gangs Partner Up in Double-Punch Security Threat

26

Feb

2021

Cybergangs are joining forces under the guise of affiliate groups and “as-a-service” models, warns Maya Horowitz, the director of threat intelligence research with Check Point Research. She said the trend is driving a new and thriving cybercriminal underground economy. Several malware gangs have paired up over the past year – such as the FIN6 cybercrime […]

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