WordPress phishing plugin drives online shopping fraud
A WordPress plugin designed to facilitate phishing of online shoppers has emerged on Russian cybercrime forums, SlashNext reported Monday. The…
Category: Ransomware
Novel PLAYFULGHOST infostealer emerges | SC Media
Phishing and SEO poisoning attacks have been leveraged to distribute the new PLAYFULGHOST information-stealing malware, which is similar to the Gh0st…
New LLM jailbreak uses models’ evaluation skills against them
A new jailbreak method for large language models (LLMs) takes advantage of models’ ability to identify and score harmful content…
FireScam Android malware poses as Telegram app to steal sensitive data
An Android infostealer malware called FireScam disguised as a fake Telegram Premium app was discovered being distributed through a GitHub.io…
Identity-security predictions for 2025 | SC Media
What’s in store for 2025? No one knows for sure, but experts at Okta have made some educated guesses, especially…
Visionworks hit with lawsuit over data breach
Cybernews reports that MetLife was claimed to have been compromised by the RansomHub ransomware-as-a-service operation, which alleged the theft of 1 TB…
NPM package poses as legit Ethereum smart contract, injects Quasar RAT
A malicious npm package has been posing as a tool for detecting bugs in Ethereum smart contracts, but instead deploys…
Ransomware 2024: A year of tricks, traps, wins and losses
Ransomware criminals in 2024 stooped to new lows and high-level black hat trade craft. Targets included critical industries such as…
Post-ALPHV, LockBit takedown surge of RansomHub examined
Hundreds of organizations — including Rite Aid, Frontier Communications, Christie’s, and Planned Parenthood of Montana — have already been compromised…
Italian websites subjected to pro-Russian DDoS attack campaign
Security Affairs reports that numerous Italian websites — including those of the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Turin Transport Group,…