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Dish Network says the February ransomware attack impacted +300,000 individuals

Satellite TV giant Dish Network disclosed a data breach after the February ransomware attack and started notifying impacted individuals. The American satellite broadcast provider Dish Network went offline on February 24, 2023, the outage impacted Dish.com, Dish Anywhere app, and many other services owned by the company. In early February, the company admitted that the outage was […]

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May 22, 2023
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PyPI Repository temporarily suspends user sign-ups and package uploads due to ongoing attacks

The Python Package Index (PyPI) maintainers have temporarily disabled the sign up and package upload processes due to an ongoing attack. The maintainers of Python Package Index (PyPI), the Python software repository, have temporarily disabled the sign up and package upload processes due to an ongoing attack. The maintainers opted to disable the above functionalities […]

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May 21, 2023
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Cybercrime gang FIN7 returned and was spotted delivering Clop ransomware

Cybercriminal gang FIN7 returned with a new wave of attacks aimed at deploying the Clop ransomware on victims’ networks. Researchers at Microsoft Security Intelligence team published a series of tweets to warn of a new wave of attacks aimed at distributing the Clop ransomware and linked it to the financially motivated cybercriminal group Sangria Tempest […]

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May 20, 2023
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NPM packages found containing the TurkoRat infostealer

Experts discovered two malicious packages in the npm package repository, both were laced with an open-source info-stealer called TurkoRat. ReversingLabs discovered two malicious packages, respectively named nodejs-encrypt-agent and nodejs-cookie-proxy-agent, in the npm package repository containing an open-source info-stealer called TurkoRat. TurkoRat is an information-stealing malware that can obtain a broad range of data from the infected machine, […]

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May 19, 2023
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Lemon Group gang pre-infected 9 million Android devices for fraudulent activities

The Lemon Group cybercrime ring has reportedly pre-installed malware known as Guerilla on almost 9 million Android devices. A cybercrime group tracked has Lemon Group has reportedly pre-installed malware known as Guerilla on almost 9 million Android devices. Infected devices were used for multiple malicious activities, including traffic redirections through mobile proxies, info-stealing, click fraud, and […]

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May 19, 2023
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Admin of the darknet carding platform Skynet Market pleads guilty

A US national has pleaded guilty to operating the carding site Skynet Market and selling financial information belonging to tens of thousands of US victims. The U.S. national Michael D. Mihalo, aka Dale Michael Mihalo Jr. and ggmccloud1, pleaded guilty to operating a carding site on the dark web called Skynet Market and selling financial […]

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May 18, 2023
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Monitoring the dark web to identify threats to energy sector organizations

Searchlight Cyber researchers warn of threat actors that are offering on the dark web access to energy sector organizations. Dark web intelligence firm Searchlight Cyber published a report that analyzes how threat actors in the dark web prepare their malicious operations against energy organizations. The threat actors use the hidden part of the web to […]

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May 18, 2023
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US Gov offers a $10M reward for a Russian ransomware actor

The US government is offering a $10M reward for Russian national Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev (30) charged for his role in ransomware attacks The US Justice Department charged Russian national Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev (30), aka Wazawaka, m1x, Boriselcin, and Uhodiransomwar, for his alleged role in multiple ransomware attacks. The DoJ unsealed two indictments charging the man […]

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May 17, 2023
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