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DJ Marshmello Concert On Fortnite: An Iconic Event That Also Attracted ScammersThe first virtual concert to take place inside a video game attracted interest not only from players but also from scammers, who tried to take advantage of the huge event by tricking users into buying tickets even though the concert was... |
ICAO Victim Of A Major Cyberattack In 2016The organization was the victim of a water-hole attack, likely attributable to the APT LuckyMouse group
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Shifting Strategies: Using Social Media, SEO In Tech Support ScamsTech support scams have diversified into new territory. They now use pop-up alerts and social engineering tactics to spread fake toll-free numbers and links of their fake tech support websites on popular social media platforms.
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FLARE Script Series: Recovering Stackstrings Using Emulation With IronstringsThis blog post continues our Script Series where the FireEye LabsAdvanced Reverse Engineering (FLARE) team shares tools to aid themalware analysis community. Today, we release ironstrings: a new IDAPython script to recoverstackstrings... |
Booter Boss Interviewed In 2014 Pleads GuiltyA 20-year-old Illinois man has pleaded guilty to running multiple DDoS-for-hire services that launched millions of attacks over several years. The plea deal comes almost exactly five years after KrebsOnSecurity interviewed both the admitted... |
Coinhive Cryptocurrency Miner To Call It A Day Next WeekThe service became notorious for its use by ne’er-do-wells looking to make a quick buck by hijacking the processing power of victim machines to generate virtual money
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How A Hacking Group Is Stealing Popular Instagram ProfilesSocial media influencers build and expand their business or brand through credibility and authenticity to their audience. For hackers, however, they could be seen as trophies. That’s what happened to a photographer with more than 15,000... |
Crypto Mining Service Coinhive To Call It QuitsRoughly one year ago, KrebsOnSecurity published a lengthy investigation into the individuals behind Coinhive[.]com, a cryptocurrency mining service that has been heavily abused to force hacked Web sites to mine virtual currency. On Tuesday,... |
What’s Hiding In Encrypted Traffic? Millions Of Advanced Threats. 27th Feb 2019 [23 days ago] from Zscaler Once seen as the ultimate protection for data being transmitted over the internet, encryption has become a vast playground for cybercriminals. Zscaler ThreatLabZ, the research organization at Zscaler, analyzed the encrypted traffic traversing... |
‘Highly Critical’ Bug Exposes Unpatched Drupal Sites To AttacksWorse, attackers have already been spotted targeting the flaw to deliver cryptocurrency miners and other payloads
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