“The cyber threat actors involved in these attacks used a variety of tactics and techniques—including phishing, brute force login attempts, and possibly a ‘pass-the-cookie’ attack—to attempt to exploit weaknesses in the victim organizations’ cloud security practices.”

With the establishment of Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Transport Layer Security (HTTPS), DNS requests are now encrypted to provide privacy, integrity, and “last mile” source authentication for DNS transactions with a client’s DNS resolver.

Ransomware attacks have been on the rise in the past year with about 65% of global organizations reporting suffering a ransomware attack in the past 12 months.

It is essential that law enforcement is as prepared as possible for what will be an onslaught of all types of criminal activity linked to the COVID-19 vaccine, which is why INTERPOL has issued this global warning.

Egregor is relatively new in its operations but is a highly organized cybercrime organization that conducts ransomware-as-a-service operation that does partnerships with operations to deploy ransomware and compromise networks. The affiliates earn 70% of any ransom payments they bring in, while the Egregor operators take a 30% revenue share.

A money mule, or a “smurfer” is any individual who transfers illegally acquired funds via his/her personal account or a mule account created, electronically or through courier service on behalf of others.

The diversity of the cyber-attacks shows the growing concern for many cybersecurity experts on the growing sophistication and diversification of cyberattacks.

With the world becoming more digital and inter-connected with each passing day, the threat posed by cybercriminals has been on the rise; the most notable of these threats is phishing. Phishing is the attempt to gain sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details, by disguising oneself as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.

On August 9, 2020, Luxottica learned of the incident, contained it, and immediately began an investigation to determine the extent of the incident. On August 28, 2020, we preliminarily concluded that the attacker may have accessed and acquired patient information

Silk Road is often remembered as being the biggest, most sophisticated, and extensive darknet criminal marketplaces that traded in illicit goods and services such as hacking-for-hire, narcotics, and contract-killing