In the hidden corners of the internet, a parallel economy thrives—one that operates beyond the reach of conventional search engines and law enforcement agencies. Dark Web Forums have become the breeding grounds for cybercriminals.

In the world of cybersecurity, Exploit in is a well-known private Russian hacker forum. Since it began in 2012, the forum has developed into a well-known exchange and sales platform for various cybercrime tools and stolen data. A wide range of cybercrime-related topics are covered by Exploit, such as credit card information, email spamming tools, social engineering, security & vulnerabilities, social network hacking, cryptography, cracked tools, buying and selling of hacked databases, info-stealer & Malware as a service (Maas). The creators of Exploit, a well-known cybercrime forum where ransomware gangs recruit affiliates and promote their Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) offerings, have declared that ransomware advertisements are no longer permitted and will be taken down.

Researchers at Eurecom have developed six new attacks collectively named 'BLUFFS' that can break the secrecy of Bluetooth sessions, allowing for device impersonation and man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks.

Cloud identity and access management solutions provider Okta revealed additional threat actor activity linked to the October 2023 breach.

Play ransomware has turned into Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS), allowing other cybercriminals to use it.

Microsoft has uncovered a supply chain attack by the threat actor Diamond Sleet (ZINC) involving a malicious variant of an application developed by CyberLink Corp. This malicious file is a legitimate CyberLink application installer that has been modified to include malicious code that downloads, decrypts, and loads a second-stage payload. The file, which was signed using a valid certificate issued to CyberLink Corp., is hosted on legitimate update infrastructure owned by the organization.

Northwell Health and Cook County Health both notified patients of a third-party data breach that originated at Perry Johnson & Associates, a medical transcription vendor.
The HHS data breach portal now shows that the Perry Johnson & Associates data breach impacted nearly 9 million individuals, making it one of the largest reported healthcare data breaches this year.

Healthcare SaaS provider Welltok is warning that a data breach exposed the personal data of nearly 8.5 million patients in the U.S. after a file transfer program used by the company was hacked in a data theft attack.

Japan's space agency was hit with a cyberattack but the information the hackers accessed did not include anything important for rocket and satellite operations, a spokesperson said on Wednesday.

Akamai SIRT has uncovered two zero-day vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited to spread a Mirai variant in the wild. Read on for details and mitigation.

We confirm that two members of Serbian civil society were targeted with spyware earlier this year. Both have publicly criticized the Serbian government. We are not naming the individuals at this time by their request. The Citizen Lab’s technical analysis of forensic artifacts was conducted in support of an investigation led by Access Now in collaboration with the SHARE Foundation. Researchers from Amnesty International independently analyzed the cases and their conclusions match our findings.

Access Now and our partners have discovered that civil society in Serbia have been targeted with invasive spyware technology. Here’s what we know.

International logistics giant DP World has confirmed that data was stolen during a cyber attack that disrupted its operations in Australia earlier this month. However, no ransomware payloads or encryption was used in the attack.

Two apparently separate North Korean crypto theft campaigns targeting macOS users appear to be linked as threat actors mix and match droppers and payloads.

Killmilk is a 30-year-old Russian citizen, according to the news site Gazeta.ru. The report has drawn extra scrutiny to Killnet, known for DDoS attacks on Western targets.

LY Corp., which operates popular messaging app Line and internet portal Yahoo! Japan, said Monday that an estimated 440,000 records of personal information may have been compromised by a third-party breach of its system.

A new strain of ransomware called MadCat has been linked by security researchers to suspected scammers who pretend to sell passport details on the dark web so they can rip off their fellow crooks.

ESET research shares insights about groups operating Telekopye, Telegram bots that scam people in online marketplaces, their internal onboarding process, different tricks of trade that Neanderthals use, and more.

HSE, Slovenia's largest power utility, has been targetted by a cyberattack that started on Wednesday night and escalated on Friday night. In-house and external experts are working to resolve the situation. The supply of electricity is not jeopardised.

Gamaredon, also known as Primitive Bear, ACTINIUM, and Shuckworm, is a unique player in the Russian espionage ecosystem that targets a wide variety of almost exclusively Ukrainian entities. While researchers often struggle to uncover evidence of Russian espionage activities, Gamaredon is notably conspicuous. The group behind it conducts large-scale campaigns while still primarily focusing on regional targets. The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) identified the Gamaredon personnel as Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) officers.

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