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Feds Shut Down RaidForums Hacking Marketplace

13

Apr

2022

U.S. law enforcement has shut down one of the largest cybercriminal online forums in the world and revealed the charges its Portuguese founder will face in federal court. However, the takedown is likely to only be a temporary blow to hackers, who will find other ways of buying and selling data stolen in cyber-attacks, security […]

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‘DarkWatchman’ RAT Shows Evolution in Fileless Malware

16

Dec

2021

A novel remote access trojan (RAT) being distributed via a Russian-language spear-phishing campaign is using unique manipulation of Windows Registry to evade most security detections, demonstrating a significant evolution in fileless malware techniques. Dubbed DarkWatchman, the RAT – discovered by researchers at Prevailion’s Adversarial Counterintelligence Team (PACT) – uses the registry on Windows systems for […]

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Malicious Exchange Server Module Hoovers Up Outlook Credentials

15

Dec

2021

Researchers have uncovered a previously unknown malicious IIS module, dubbed Owowa, that steals credentials when users log into Microsoft Outlook Web Access (OWA). Internet Information Services (IIS), Microsoft’s web server/web-hosting software suite, can be extended via various add-ons that are known as modules. Like plugins for WordPress or Chrome extensions, IIS modules offer an attractive […]

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