In several previous articles we have covered how the work done by the firm Chainalysis has provided great insight into how ransomware developers and affiliates operate. We have seen how their work has contributed to arrests of ransomware operators. We have also seen how the information generated by
On January 16, 2023, cybersecurity firm Avast announced that they had released a decryptor for the BianLian ransomware, not to be confused with the Android trojan of the same name. The decryptor can be used by the victims of the ransomware strain to recover encrypted files that can no longer be acce
Many students or young adults will be familiar with the phrase Bring-Your-Own-Booze (BYOB) to denote that the person hosting the party is certainly not providing you drinks. There is something similar in the cyber security sector but it promises even less of a good time. The Bring-Your-Own-Vulnerabl
The Dark Web is not only the stomping ground of hackers and ransomware operators but several other criminal activities including drug dealing. It was estimated by the United Nations that the Dark Web drug market is now over 315 million USD annually and in 2022 it was estimated that annual sales on t
While many of us were enjoying the time spent with family and friends over the festive season, two cryptocurrency platforms were dealing with cyberattacks. In the first incident, BTC.com lost approximately 3 million USD belonging to both customers and the company, following a theft instigated by a c
Android users now have another cyber security worry to add to the growing pile. According to a report published by Threat Fabric, a malware-as-a-service platform advertised on the Darknet can bind malware to legitimate Android apps. This effectively results in victims infecting themselves and evadin
For many security firms, the dangers posed by nation-state threat actors plot the course for the dangers they face from financially motivated threat actors shortly. One such course has been potentially plotted with the discovery that a newly discovered Windows malware that acts like a backdoor is be
In much the same way that GitHub has been used by malicious threat actors to distribute malware, it would not be long until Docker Hub would be abused for similar purposes. In a recent report published by Sysdig over 1,600 publicly available Docker Hub images are been used to hide malicious behavior
According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Hive gang has successfully extorted over 100 million USD from approximately 1300 victims dating back to July 2021. Unfortunately, those that refuse to pay are likely to experience further ransomware payloads down the line, which is in line
Robin Banks, the popular phishing-as-a-service (PaaS) platform amongst the cybercriminal underground, has resurfaced after previously having its backend and frontend rendered useless by Cloudflare. Now the platform has found a new hosting partner based in Russia that boasts distributed-denial-of-ser