Joker’s Stash to shut down on February 15, 2021. Joker’s Stash, the largest carding marketplace online announced that it was shutting down its operations on February 15, 2021. Joker’s Stash, the largest carding marketplace online, announced that its operations will shut down on February 15, 2021. The administrator announced the decision via me

More than 40 scammer groups are actively engaged in schemes leveraging a scam-as-a-service offering that provides users the tools and resources needed to conduct fraud, according to threat hunting and intelligence company Group-IB.The automated scam service has been named Classiscam by Group-IB and it’s meant to help cybercriminals steal money and payment da

Russian-speaking scammers started targeting users of European marketplaces and classifieds is a criminal scheme dubbed Classiscam. Group-IB, a global threat hunting and and adversary-centric cyber intelligence company, has discovered that Russian-speaking scammers started targeting users of European marketplaces and classifieds. The scheme, dubbed Classis

Video game giant Capcom this week revealed that thousands more people than initially believed had their personal information stolen in a ransomware attack in November 2020.Known for video games such as Devil May Cry, Monster Hunter, Resident Evil, Street Fighter, Ace Attorney and Mega Man, the Japanese company has operations in Asia, Europe, and the United S

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand – Te Pūtea Matua – says Accellion’s FTA (File Transfer Application) file sharing service was involved in a security incident disclosed on Sunday.The malicious incident, the bank said, involved a service that stored commercially and personally sensitive information, but could not provide specific details on the type of data tha

Email security company Mimecast on Tuesday revealed that a sophisticated threat actor had obtained a certificate provided to certain customers.According to Mimecast, it learned from Microsoft that hackers had compromised a certificate used to authenticate Mimecast Continuity Monitor, Internal Email Protect (IEP), and Sync and Recover products with Microsoft

A recently discovered Mobile Remote Access Trojan (MRAT) can take control of the infected Android devices and exfiltrate a trove of user data, Check Point security researchers warn.Dubbed Rogue, the Trojan is the work of Triangulum and HeXaGoN Dev, known Android malware authors that have been selling their malicious products on underground markets for severa

Someone has set up a website named SolarLeaks where they are offering to sell gigabytes of files allegedly obtained as a result of the recently disclosed SolarWinds breach.The SolarLeaks website offers source code allegedly obtained from Microsoft, Cisco, SolarWinds and FireEye. The information allegedly taken from Microsoft, offered for $600,000, is contain

Hackers have started leaking documents related to COVID-19 medicine and vaccines that were stolen from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in early December 2020.The data breach resulted in “a limited number of documents belonging to third parties” being unlawfully accessed, EMA announced on December 11. An investigation was immediately launched into the inc

The world’s largest black marketplace on the dark web, DarkMarket, has been taken offline by law enforcement in an international operation.  DarkMarket, the world’s largest black marketplace on the dark web, has been taken offline as a result of an international operation conducted by law enforcement from Germany, Australia, Denmark, Moldova,

American technology company Ubiquiti this week revealed that one of its third-party cloud providers suffered a data breach.Founded in 2005, the New York City-based company manufactures wired and wireless data communication products for both corporate and home users, including routers, security cameras, network video recorders, and other Internet of Things de

A German-led police operation has taken down the "world's largest" darknet marketplace, whose Australian alleged operator used it to facilitate the sale of drugs, stolen credit card data and malware, prosecutors said Tuesday.At the time of its closure, DarkMarket had nearly 500,000 users and more than 2,400 vendors worldwide, as the coronavirus pandemic lead

CrowdStrike, one of the cybersecurity companies called in by IT management firm SolarWinds to investigate the recently disclosed supply chain attack, on Monday shared details about a piece of malware used by the attackers to insert a backdoor into SolarWinds’ Orion product.According to CrowdStrike, the threat group behind the attack on SolarWinds used a piec

Researchers have identified some similarities between the Sunburst malware used in the SolarWinds supply chain attack and Kazuar, a backdoor that appears to have been used by the Russia-linked cyber-espionage group known as Turla.Hackers believed to be operating out of Russia have targeted Texas-based IT management solutions provider SolarWinds as part of a

In their attempt to extort as much money as quickly as possible out of companies, ransomware gangs know some effective techniques to get the full attention of a firm’s management team.And one of them is to specifically target the sensitive information stored on the computers used by a company’s top executives, in the hope of finding valuable data