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An illicit online marketplace known as SSNDOB was taken down in operation led by U.S. law enforcement agencies, the Department of Justice (DoJ) announced Tuesday. SSNDOB trafficked in personal information such as names, dates of birth, credit card numbers, and Social Security numbers of about 24 million individuals in the U.S., generating its operators $19 million in sales revenue. The action

By Waqas Upon being alerted by security researcher Anurag Sen, the company rubbished the sensitivity of the matter by labeling… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Scoop: Australian Trading Giant ACY Securities Exposed 60GB of User Data

By Deeba Ahmed The takedown resulted from a global law enforcement operation involving eleven countries, headed by Europol’s European Cybercrime Center.… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Authorities Take Down SMS-based FluBot Android Spyware

The malware targets Windows users via Trojanized downloads of cracked or pirated software and then starts in on cryptocurrency mining and clipboard hijacking.

By Deeba Ahmed In this PoC, the ransomware attack dubbed R4IoT uses vulnerable IoT devices (in this case, vulnerable security cameras)… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New PoC Shows IoT Devices Can Be Hacked to Install Ransomware on OT Networks

We break down three ways DNS filtering can help save your business from cyberattacks. The post 3 ways DNS filtering can save SMBs from cyberattacks appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

EnemyBot DDoS botnet is rapidly weaponizing security bugs disclosed in CMS systems like WordPress plug-ins, Android devices, commercial Web servers, and other enterprise applications.

An enhanced version of the XLoader malware has been spotted adopting a probability-based approach to camouflage its command-and-control (C&C) infrastructure, according to the latest research. "Now it is significantly harder to separate the wheat from the chaff and discover the real C&C servers among thousands of legitimate domains used by Xloader as a smokescreen," Israeli cybersecurity company

Malware borrows generously from code used by other botnets such as Mirai, Qbot and Zbot.

A nascent Linux-based botnet named Enemybot has expanded its capabilities to include recently disclosed security vulnerabilities in its arsenal to target web servers, Android devices, and content management systems (CMS). "The malware is rapidly adopting one-day vulnerabilities as part of its exploitation capabilities," AT&T Alien Labs said in a technical write-up published last week. "Services