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By Deeba Ahmed Czech Republic Police Expose 'Fake Bankers' Gang in $8.7 Million Vishing Operation. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Multimillion-Dollar Vishing Scam Busted: Czech-Ukrainian Gang Arrested

The threat actors behind the 8Base ransomware are leveraging a variant of the Phobos ransomware to conduct their financially motivated attacks. The findings come from Cisco Talos, which has recorded an increase in activity carried out by cybercriminals. “Most of the group’s Phobos variants are distributed by SmokeLoader, a backdoor trojan," security researcher Guilherme Venere said in an

Cisco Talos has recently observed an increase in activity conducted by 8Base, a ransomware group that uses a variant of the Phobos ransomware and other publicly available tools to facilitate their operations.

Cisco Talos identified the most prolific Phobos variants, TTPs and affiliate structure, based on their activity and analysis of over 1,000 samples from VirusTotal dating back to 2019. We assess with moderate confidence Eking, Eight, Elbie, Devos and Faust are the most common variants

By Deeba Ahmed Yet another day, another instance of a Google service being exploited for spreading malware infections. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: ALPHV (BlackCat) Ransomware Gang Uses Google Ads for Targeted Victims

YouTube’s new rules may not be around for long anyway, because they might run afoul of European Union regulations

Signal’s president reveals the cost of running the privacy-preserving platform—not just to drum up donations, but to call out the for-profit surveillance business models it competes against.

Avoiding some of these common mistakes ensures your organization’s plan will be updated faster and is more thorough, so you are ready to act when, not if, an incident happens.

The threat actors behind the Rhysida ransomware engage in opportunistic attacks targeting organizations spanning various industry sectors. The advisory comes courtesy of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC). "Observed as a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS)

Microsoft has released fixes to address 63 security bugs in its software for the month of November 2023, including three vulnerabilities that have come under active exploitation in the wild. Of the 63 flaws, three are rated Critical, 56 are rated Important, and four are rated Moderate in severity. Two of them have been listed as publicly known at the time of the release. The updates are in