The strange tale of ischhfd83: When cybercriminals eat their own
A simple customer query leads to a rabbit hole of backdoored malware and game cheats
Similar Posts
Whitman Hospital & Medical Clinics In Colfax Suffers Cyber Attack
Bys sNaomi Diaz reports: Colfax,Wash.-based Whitman Hospital and Medical Clinics’ internal electronic systems are down following a cyberattack. “If you have an appointment at the hospital or any of our clinics on Wednesday, March 5, 2025, please understand there may be delays, however, we remain open and here to care for you,” the hospital wrote in a March…
300 Servers and €3.5M Seized as Europol Strikes Ransomware Networks Worldwide
Bys sAs part of the latest “season” of Operation Endgame, a coalition of law enforcement agencies have taken down about 300 servers worldwide, neutralized 650 domains, and issued arrest warrants against 20 targets. Operation Endgame, first launched in May 2024, is an ongoing law enforcement operation targeting services and infrastructures assisting in or directly providing initial…
NYDFS Secures $2 Million Cybersecurity Settlement with Healthplex, Inc.
Bys sThere is an update to a phishing incident in 2021 that impacted more than 89,000 people with Healthplex dental insurance. DataBreaches notes that the NYDFS settlement announced below is not the first settlement stemming from this incident. In December 2023, the NY Attorney General’s Office announced a $400,000 settlement with Healthplex. Both the 2023 and……
Western intelligence agencies unite to expose Russian hacking campaign against logistics and tech firms
Bys sAlexander Martin reports: A notorious Russian hacking unit was blamed on Wednesday for conducting a widespread campaign that officials say “presents a serious risk” to the targeted organizations and sectors in more than a dozen countries. In a joint cybersecurity advisory co-sealed by what appears to be a record number of allied countries (11) and intelligence agencies…
Multi-Stage Malware Attack Uses .JSE and PowerShell to Deploy Agent Tesla and XLoader
Bys sA new multi-stage attack has been observed delivering malware families like Agent Tesla variants, Remcos RAT, and XLoader. “Attackers increasingly rely on such complex delivery mechanisms to evade detection, bypass traditional sandboxes, and ensure successful payload delivery and execution,” Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researcher Saqib Khanzada said in a technical write-up of the campaign….
New TokenBreak Attack Bypasses AI Moderation with Single-Character Text Changes
Bys sCybersecurity researchers have discovered a novel attack technique called TokenBreak that can be used to bypass a large language model’s (LLM) safety and content moderation guardrails with just a single character change. “The TokenBreak attack targets a text classification model’s tokenization strategy to induce false negatives, leaving end targets vulnerable to attacks that the implemented