The FBI has reported a surge in fraudulent schemes involving the takeover of financial accounts and warned that such attacks may intensify as the holiday shopping season approaches. According to the agency, more than...
The United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency has announced that it has dismantled an intricate financial network used by intelligence services to bankroll the operations of a spy ring linked to former Wirecard executive Jan...
Specialists from Group-IB have released an in-depth analysis of the long-running UNC2891 campaign, which demonstrates how inventive modern attack schemes against ATM networks have become. At the center of the operation was a compact...
Two founders of the cryptocurrency service Samourai Wallet have received actual prison sentences for laundering more than $237 million in criminal proceeds. The charges stemmed from the platform’s deliberate facilitation of illicit actors, helping...
Experts in cybersecurity report the emergence of a new automated credential-theft toolkit whose sophistication continues to evolve. In mass-scale schemes, threat actors are increasingly adopting inventive techniques, and one such toolkit — Sneaky 2FA...
The United States is intensifying pressure on the infrastructure used by organizers of major online-fraud hubs across Southeast Asia. Authorities are attempting to sever the communications channels that enable sprawling operations built on cryptocurrency...
The operation in the Netherlands concluded with the large-scale seizure of servers that had long served as a backbone for shadow hosting. A team from the eastern part of the country undertook the task...
Government plans in the United Kingdom to prohibit ransom payments by operators of critical infrastructure have ignited an intense debate among companies and professional communities. The initiative, introduced by the Home Office over the...
The scale of digital communication expands with each passing year, and the techniques of social manipulation evolve alongside it. Increasingly, malicious schemes emerge not in email inboxes but within the applications many people rely...
Microsoft has reported the largest cloud-targeted DDoS attack ever recorded, detected on one of its nodes in Australia. The company’s infrastructure automatically identified and neutralized an onslaught reaching 15.72 Tbps and nearly 3.64 billion...
The global saga surrounding the 2020 Twitter breach has taken a new turn: British prosecutors have succeeded in stripping a key participant of the cryptocurrency he amassed through the large-scale scheme. A court has...
Over the past quarter, the ransomware ecosystem has entered a new phase that markedly reshapes its familiar balance of power. Where the market once revolved around large, entrenched operators with stable infrastructures, it has...
