Bite Sized Cyber Crime

Deepfakes and AI image and video generation have become nearly indistinguishable from real people to the naked eye. This creates a problem when it comes to identity verification that involves previously very difficult to fake Face ID systems. Recently a deep web identity fraud database was being build was scraped data and images with the intention to target financial accounts. Sources: https://pas...

The healthcare industry remains one of the top targeted by hackers, and even the biggest healthcare organizations are not safe. Sources: https://pastebin.com/UgauFXsL

In 1999 one of the most infamous viruses was released on the world, slowing down email systems and causing chaos in the corporate world and among personal computer users. Sources: https://pastebin.com/FgE9ETKk

Telecom providers across many countries have been compromised by an APT, which means your text messages may be vulnerable if you text people with different phones, due to insecurities in text message protocols. Fortunately there's some solutions. Sources: https://pastebin.com/pMnEP6Lj

Game engines are used to help developers create games we love, but where code can be written, malware can be written, and one group has figured out a way to exploit the Godot game engine to discreetly package malware that often goes undetected. Sources: https://pastebin.com/5b3LcJpW

A hacking group boasted about breaching car manufacturer Ford's network and stealing data on 44,000 customers, selling it for 2 dollars on hacking forums for everyone to enjoy. The only problem? That data isn't exactly what they claimed. Sources: https://pastebin.com/d7r88Q7m

Simple misconfiguration can often lead to disaster, and sometimes that disaster is a threat actor sneakily taking over your trusted website and using it to host malware, send phishing emails, or control botnets. Here's a surprisingly easily exploited DNS oversight that has allowed threat actors to take over 70,000 websites. Sources: https://pastebin.com/DqXL1BRb

Ransomware groups typically request payments in the form of crypto, but newcomers Hellcat wanted to get this bread in a more literal sense. So why bread? There may be a more realistic reason than you'd think... Sources: https://pastebin.com/kAkdLJD5

There's all sorts of online shopping scams, but one of the newest ones discovered exploits legitimate eshops by creating fake product listings on other people's websites and redirecting shoppers to an attacker-controlled page that will steal credit card data.   Sources: https://pastebin.com/VS9XFHRF

The Flipper Zero is a notorious hacking tool used to wreak havoc on traffic lights, banks, locks, and cars. Or is it? What can the Flipper actually do, and is it really as dangerous as it seems on Tik Tok? Sources: https://pastebin.com/cnJyQkXC

A couple months ago security education company KnowBe4 accidentally hired a North Korean threat actor who tried to install malware on their machine. Turns out this may not be as uncommon as you'd think. Recently a network of North Korean threat actors applying for jobs, and US citizens helping them, has been uncovered. Sources: https://pastebin.com/1npHD8cA

The Internet Archive is a website vital in the preservation of digital information, and recently it was attacked on two separate occasions. Here's what went down. Sources: https://pastebin.com/nbhNFAv5

Ever receive a weird wrong number text or match with someone on a dating site who starts talking about crypto? It may be part of a long term scam meant to drain you of as much money as you're willing to part with to make a big investment. Once it seems too good to be true and you go to withdraw your earnings, suddenly you realize you've lost it all.

Cars are just big computers now, and that means they are vulnerable to exploits that could allow a concerning amount of control over them. Security researchers discovered a vulnerability in the Kia dealer portal that could allow a hacker remote control over millions of cars made after 2013. Sources: https://pastebin.com/tsJGg8jq

The Tor network allows for anonymous connections to unindexed search engines, including to online criminal services. Recently though, German authorities claimed to have de-anonymized a user using Tor and made an arrest. Has Tor finally been cracked, or is this a scare tactic to instill fear in threat actors? Sources: https://pastebin.com/Hfrrbdag

YubiKeys are physical authentication devices that have a lot of flexibility and are compatible with just about every service, but as it turns out if you know a lot about math and electronics you can uncover the private keys and clone the device!   Sources: https://pastebin.com/WacbUmA1

The city of Columbus, Ohio had a data breach occur in July. According to the mayor, the information leaked was nothing important to hackers. A security researcher proved that this was not the case, that the data was incredibly sensitive. In response, the city sued him. Sources: https://pastebin.com/C632hthD

Using native Windows tools rather than custom malware is becoming a better technique of pulling off attacks while remaining under the radar. Qilin was caught doing just this to steal credentials right from the Chrome web browser.   Sources: https://pastebin.com/Ccvhs7Pd

Antimalware solutions like EDR are meant to keep a careful watch on our systems to ensure they are protected from even sneaky threats. But what happens when malware can take out an EDR solution before it is spotted? Sources: https://pastebin.com/6uRVy4Yd

Often times we can reduce our risk to cyber crime by being careful about the websites we sign up for, but what if someone has our data that we never consented to giving them and ends up being breached? Just that happened, with a company you've probably never heard of. Sources: https://pastebin.com/Yms285F5

Ransomware threat actors are one of the biggest modern threats, and things will only ramp up when threat actors see just how much an organization is willing to pay to have their data back. Recently it was uncovered that a covert ransomware group quietly received the largest payout ever recorded in ransomware history. Sources: https://pastebin.com/uLQ9sFh0

KnowBe4 has employed hacker Kevin Mitnick as a spokesperson in their security training materials. But what happens when you employ a hacker by accident and they immediately try loading malware on the company provided laptop? Sources: https://pastebin.com/XrMa4bsS

The biggest IT outage across the world just happened. Planes were grounded, hospitals and 911 dispatch centers were down, people couldn't turn their computers on, all on a massive global scale never seen before. So what is CrowdStrike, and how did this happen?   Sources: https://pastebin.com/vxfyMcd4

Ticketmaster, AT&T, Neiman Marcus, Advanced Auto Parts. These organizations may not seem like they have anything in common, but they all were customers of Snowflake that had a data breach within the past couple months. With conflicting reports from Snowflake, the victims, the threat actors, and different security firms, who is really at fault here? Sources: https://pastebin.com/E1H5rgkd

Authy is an app that allows for multifactor authentication, recently the phone numbers of 33 million Authy customers were leaked due to an unsecured API, which could lead to attacks on those users. Sources: https://pastebin.com/qLsuL1Qb