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A 34-year-old U.K. national has been arraigned in the U.S. for operating a dark web marketplace called The Real Deal that specialized in the sales of hacking tools and stolen login credentials. Daniel Kaye, who went by a litany of pseudonyms Popopret, Bestbuy, UserL0ser, and Spdrman, has been charged with five counts of access device fraud and one count of money laundering conspiracy. Kaye was

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Ransomware and pre-ransomware engagements make up 40 percent of threats seen this quarter By Caitlin Huey. For the first time since compiling these reports, Cisco Talos Incident Response saw an equal number of ransomware and pre-ransomware engagements, making up nearly 40 percent of threats this quarter.   It can be difficult to determine what constitutes a pre-ransomware attack if ransomware never executes and encryption does not take place. However, Talos IR assesses that the combination of Cobalt Strike and credential-harvesting tools like Mimikatz, paired with enumeration and discovery techniques, indicates a high likelihood that ransomware is the final objective. This quarter featured a variety of publicly available tools and scripts hosted on GitHub repositories or other third-party websites to support operations across multiple stages of the attack lifecycle. This activity coincides with a general increase in the use of other dual-use tools, such as the legitimate red-teaming ...

A lack of MFA remains one of the biggest impediments to enterprise security.

By Deeba Ahmed According to Group-IB's report, OldGremlin Ransomware Gang poses as reputed firms to infiltrate networks via phishing emails. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: OldGremlin Ransomware Gang Known for Targeting Russia Launches Linux Malware

Excessive statefulness hurts the ability to scale networks, applications, and ancillary supporting infrastructure, thus affecting an entire service delivery chain's ability to withstand a DDoS attack.

A potential DOS vulnerability was discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions before before 15.2.5, all versions starting from 15.3 before 15.3.4, all versions starting from 15.4 before 15.4.1 While cloning an issue with special crafted content added to the description could have been used to trigger high CPU usage.

By Deeba Ahmed According to Dutch Police, Deadbolt ransomware attacks mainly focused on NAS (network-attached storage). This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Dutch Police Tricked Deadbolt Ransomware Gang Into Sharing Decryption Keys

By Waqas Bot attacks rose by 41% in H1 2021, with the financial services and media industries facing the highest proportion… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Rising Bot Attacks – Why is Your Organization Struggling to Deal with Them?

By Deeba Ahmed Alchimist is a single-file C2 framework discovered on a server hosting an active file listing on the root directory and a set of post-exploitation tools. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Linux, Windows and macOS Hit By New “Alchimist” Attack Framework