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Group-IB Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2020/2021 report

Security Affairs

Group-IB , a global threat hunting and intelligence company, has presented its annual Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2020/2021 report. Forecasts and recommendations set out in Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2020-2021 seek to prevent financial damage and manufacturing downtimes. Group-IB: The ransomware plague cost the world over $1 billion.

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Authorities dismantled the card-checking platform Try2Check

Security Affairs

Over a nine-month period in 2018, the site performed at least 16 million checks, and over a 13-month period beginning in September 2021, the site performed at least 17 million checks.” Authorities dismantled the Try2Check platform, a Card-Checking platform that generated tens of millions of dollars in revenue.

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Indictment, Lawsuits Revive Trump-Alfa Bank Story

Krebs on Security

Since 2018, access to an exhaustive report commissioned by the U.S. 14, 2021 shows the top sources of traffic to the Trump Organization email server over a four month period in the spring and summer of 2016. The first page of Alfa Bank’s 2020 complaint. trump-email.com). This chart from a court filing Sept.

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Spanish police dismantled SIM swapping gang who stole money from victims’ bank accounts

Security Affairs

” The first SIM swapping attack attributed to this gang took place on March 2021, at the time Spanish police received two complaints about fraudulent transactions in different geographical locations in Spain. Once obtained the SIM cards, they were able to bypass SMS-based 2FA used to access bank accounts and steal the money.

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Thinking of Hiring or Running a Booter Service? Think Again.

Krebs on Security

In 2018, the feds seized 15 stresser sites, and levied cybercrime charges against three men for their operation of booter services. computer crime laws — wasn’t properly tested in the courts until September 2021. man charged in the government’s first 2018 mass booter bust-up. ” In December 2022, the U.S.

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Colonial Pipeline Attack Shows Critical Infrastructure Vulnerabilities

eSecurity Planet

On Monday, May 10, Colonial announced that it had set a “goal of substantially restoring operational service by the end of the week,” which means the Eastern U.S. Chris Krebs (@C_C_Krebs) May 10, 2021. Dmitri Alperovitch (@DAlperovitch) May 10, 2021. We do have backups? What do we do in the meantime?).

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Top Cybersecurity Accounts to Follow on Twitter

eSecurity Planet

Also read: Top Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) Solutions for 2021. — Eva (@evacide) October 4, 2021. pic.twitter.com/gvP2ne9kTR — Graham Cluley (@gcluley) March 25, 2021. — Jack Daniel (@jack_daniel) October 10, 2018. jaysonstreet) March 3, 2018. Eva Galperi n | @evacide.