Russian national Sergey Medvedev, one of the co-founders of Internet-based cybercriminal enterprise Infraud Organization and an admin on the organization's carding forum, today pleaded guilty to RICO conspiracy.
0A 30-year old Russian national named Aleksey Yurievich Burkov was sentenced today to nine years in prison for running Cardplanet and Direct Connection, two sites that facilitated payment card fraud, computer hacking, and other cybercrimes.
0A 22-year-old Washington man was sentenced to 13 months in prison for renting and developing Mirai and Qbot-based DDoS botnets used in DDoS attacks against targets from all over the world.
0Ransomware has been busy this week with new features being discovered, big name victims, and new ransomware campaigns being discovered.
1Asian media firm E27 has been hacked, and attackers ask for a small "donation" to provide information on the vulnerabilities used in the attack.
0The Evil Corp gang was blocked from deploying WastedLocker ransomware payloads in dozens of attacks against major US corporations, at least of them being Fortune 500 companies.
0A new ransomware called Ransom X is being actively used in human-operated and targeted attacks against government agencies and enterprises.
1Hackers are always evolving their tactics to stay one step ahead of security companies. A perfect example of this is the hiding of malicious credit card stealing scripts in the EXIF data of a favicon image to evade detection.
3Microsoft has removed the setting allowing users to defer feature updates in Windows 10 2004 but still allows it to be configured via group policies for business versions.
5A new botnet identified in the wild leverages close to a dozen exploits for high and critical-severity vulnerabilities against Windows systems to turn them into cryptomining clients and sources for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
0A bank in Europe was the target of a huge distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that sent to its networking gear a flood of 809 million packets per second (PPS).
0The dust is far from settled following the disclosure of the 19 vulnerabilities in the TCP/IP stack from Treck, collectively referred to as Ripple20, which could help attackers take full control of vulnerable devices on the network.
0Maze ransomware operators have claimed on their website that they breached and locked the network of the South Korean multinational LG Electronics.
0NVIDIA has released security updates to address security vulnerabilities found in GPU Display and CUDA drivers and Virtual GPU Manager software that could lead to code execution, denial of service, escalation of privileges, and information disclosure on both Windows and Linux machines.
0Nvidia has released the GeForce Game Ready driver version 451.48 and with it comes highly anticipated support for DirectX 12 support, and the Windows 10 2004 GPU Scheduling feature.
2Sony today announced the launch of a public PlayStation bug bounty program to pay security researchers and gamers for security vulnerabilities found in PlayStation 4 devices, the PlayStation Network domains.
0Microsoft has issued a warning about a conflict between Chromium-based browsers, such as Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome, and the AdBlock Plus browser extension that causes problems when watching YouTube videos.
3Microsoft's Defender ATP Research Team today issued guidance on how to defend against attacks targeting Exchange servers by blocking malicious activity identified with the help of behavior-based detection.
0VMware released security updates to fix multiple vulnerabilities in VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion, with one of them being a critical bug in default configurations of Workstation and Fusion having 3D graphics enabled.
0A hacking group known as CryptoCore has pulled off cryptocurrency heists worth $70 million, but research indicates that it may be an estimated value of over $200 million since 2018.
0