New Hacking Group Seen Laying Foundation for Supply Chain Attack

A new hacking group has emerged from the shadows, dubbed Tortoiseshell by researchers, the group has been seen targeting IT companies. The reason behind it, it appears the group is laying the foundation for a supply chain attack. Such attacks can be a nightmare for organizations as they often target less secure elements of the organization, whether it be a third-party supplier or an in house system not properly secured which could grant access to the entire network. According to a report published by Symantec the new group uses a combination of custom tools and off the shelf malware to conduct its operations. The group has been active since the middle of 2018 and in that time has targeted at least 11 IT providers. Most of the targeted IT providers reside in Saudi Arabia. According to the researchers, it appears that the hacker group aimed to gain domain level access, this would grant the group access to an organi...

Jeanson J. Acheta Sextortion Email Scam

Scammers send this email scam to a number of people hoping that someone will fall for it and pay them money. There are many scams of this type, typically, scammers claim that they recorded some humiliating/compromising video and threaten to spread it if their demands to pay a particular amount of money will not be met on time. There are more variants of this scam, however, the main differences are the amount of money that scammers demand to be paid and Bitcoin wallet address that supposed to be used to make a payment. Either way, we strongly recommend not to trust this or any other scam (email) of this type. According to the scammer behind this spam campaign, he injected some malicious code into recipient's computer and used it to monitor computing activity. What's interesting is that sender claims to be Jeason James Acheta, who is a notorious cyber criminal known for being the first person to be charged...