The recent reports of secret documents that provide details of US and NATO plans to help prepare Ukraine for a spring offensive against Russia have raised alarm bells in the US Department of Defense. The documents were spread on Twitter and Telegram, and reportedly contain charts and details about weapons deliveries, battalion strengths and other…
BreachForums, an alternative to the cybercrime marketplace RaidForums, has recently announced its shutdown following the arrest of its alleged administrator, Conor Brian Fitzpatrick. In a short span of roughly a year, the website had rapidly gained a membership of 192,000 users. Last week, US authorities arrested Fitzpatrick for running BreachForums and this week, the administrator…
The enterprise AppSec market is an increasingly lucrative space, and the emergence of Backslash Security from stealth on Wednesday with $8 million in seed-stage capital and new technology to identify and mitigate “toxic code flows” in cloud-native applications is set to shake things up. The Israeli startup was funded by StageOne Ventures, First Rays Venture…
Verosint Launches Account Fraud Detection and Prevention Platform Security startup Verosint is launching a new account fraud detection and prevention solution as it refocuses its previous open source intelligence (OSINT) access management solution. This new product includes capabilities such as behavioral analytics, rules engine, identity graphing, and AI/ML that automatically tags different forms of account…
The NBA released a statement alerting individuals of a data breach at a third-party service provider, in which personal information was stolen. The stolen data includes names and email addresses, however the NBA confirmed that systems and passwords were not affected. The league also warned the affected individuals that the stolen data could be used…
Last week, a man from New York was arrested and charged for allegedly operating the widely-known cybercrime forum BreachForums. It is suspected that he is the same person known as Pompompurin, whose online alias has been linked to various notorious hacking incidents over the recent years. The suspect is 21-year-old Conor Brian Fitzpatrick of Peekskill,…
Mar 20, 2023 has seen the return of the notorious Emotet malware, which is now being distributed via Microsoft OneNote email attachments in an attempt to bypass security restrictions. The Emotet malware is linked to a threat actor tracked as Gold Crestwood, Mummy Spider, or TA542 and has evolved into a platform for other malicious…
Chinese Hackers Exploit Fortinet Zero-Day Flaw for Cyber Espionage Attack Mar 18, 2023: A zero-day exploit of a now-patched medium-severity security flaw in the Fortinet FortiOS operating system has been linked to a suspected Chinese hacking group by threat intelligence firm Mandiant. The attack has been tracked under the uncategorized moniker UNC3886 and is part…