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In March 2023, Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, aka “Pompompurin,” was arrested at his home in New York. As a member of the former RaidForums, and as the owner and active participant in BreachForums, he was charged with one count each of: 18 U.S.C. § 1029(b)(2) and 3559(g)(1) Conspiracy to Commit Access Device Fraud; 18 U.S.C. §……
The threat actor known as Transparent Tribe has been attributed to a fresh set of attacks targeting Indian governmental, academic, and strategic entities with a remote access trojan (RAT) that grants them persistent control over compromised hosts. “The campaign employs deceptive delivery techniques, including a weaponized Windows shortcut (LNK) file masquerading as a legitimate PDF…
ScatteredLapsus$Hunters (SLH) welcomed the new year by announcing that they had hacked Resecurity and taken “everything,” including: – All internal chats and logs – Full employee data: names, emails, tokens, etc. – Threat intel related, reports, scrapes, and all management files – Complete client list with details – All their plans from chats When contacted……
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new campaign that employs a previously undocumented ransomware family called Charon to target the Middle East’s public sector and aviation industry. The threat actor behind the activity, according to Trend Micro, exhibited tactics mirroring those of advanced persistent threat (APT) groups, such as DLL side-loading, process injection, and the ability
Threat hunters are warning of a sophisticated web skimmer campaign that leverages a legacy application programming interface (API) from payment processor Stripe to validate stolen payment information prior to exfiltration. “This tactic ensures that only valid card data is sent to the attackers, making the operation more efficient and potentially harder to detect,” Jscrambler researchers…
Marietta, Georgia is one of numerous entities affected by the BridgePay ransomware attack. On February 13, the city posted the following notice on its website: The City of Marietta is currently unable to process certain online credit card payments due to a recent service disruption by one of the City’s payment gateway providers. We are……