Dark Caracal

Dark Caracal group might have refreshed its malware, researchers say | The Record from Recorded Future News - Campaigns linked to Bandook and Poco RAT share key traits, researchers said, including the use of blurred decoy documents, link-shortening services and legitimate cloud storage for payload distribution, which can make operations harder to detect. The ...
5 days ago Therecord.media Dark Caracal

Tracking Everything on the Dark Web Is Mission Critical - COMMENTARYOne of the standard cybersecurity tools today is to relentlessly check the Dark Web - the preferred workplace for bad guys globally - for any hints that your enterprise's secrets and other intellectual property have been exfiltrated. It ...
11 months ago Darkreading.com Equation

Cybercrime Groups Offering Six-Figure Salaries for IT Talents - Increasingly, organized crime organizations are operating as businesses rather than criminal organizations, advertising jobs on the dark web with a number of advantages for members. A recent Kaspersky study found that 61% of job ads posted by hacking ...
2 years ago Cybersecuritynews.com

Best of 2023: Combo Lists & the Dark Web: Understanding Leaked Credentials - In today's interconnected, cloud-based world, user credentials are the keys that grant entry to the house that stores an organization's digital treasure. Just as burglars pick the lock on a physical house, cybercriminals use stolen credentials to ...
1 year ago Securityboulevard.com

Mozilla Firefox's Premium Dark Web Monitoring Solution - Mozilla, renowned for its commitment to an open and secure internet, has recently made a strategic foray into unexplored realms with the introduction of a subscription-based dark web monitoring service. This bold move signifies the organization's ...
1 year ago Cysecurity.news

Target Says Data Sold on Dark Web Is Outdated, Likely Released by Third Party - In a recent incident, retail giant Target reported that a subset of customer credit card data sold on the 'dark web' appears to be outdated and likely to have been from a third-party data security breach. ...
2 years ago Therecord.media

Dark Reading Debuts Fresh New Site Design - Here are some adjectives the Dark Reading team used to describe our revamped site that went live today: Elegant. The process almost always winds up injecting new life and fresh purpose into your mission, and that's what we've accomplished with Dark ...
1 year ago Darkreading.com

Report: Developers are most in demand on dark web - Hacker gangs often operate like businesses - they have salaries, working hours, clients and employees. To compete in a growing market, they are constantly looking for new talent with better skill sets, and they often use the same methods as ...
2 years ago Therecord.media

The Rising Tide of Cybercrime as A Service - Welcome to the era of Cybercrime as a Service, or CaaS, which, quite alarmingly, is like an online marketplace for cybercriminals and their services. Now, anyone with an internet connection and a chip on their shoulder - an unhappy customer, a ...
1 year ago Cyberdefensemagazine.com BITTER

Dark Caracal - Dark Caracal is threat group that has been attributed to the Lebanese General Directorate of General Security (GDGS) and has operated since at least 2012. ...
1 year ago Attack.mitre.org Dark Caracal

Poco RAT Malware Exploits PDF Files to Infiltrate Systems and Steal Data - Linked to the cyber-mercenary group Dark Caracal, this campaign represents an evolution of tactics previously associated with the Bandook remote access trojan, now adapted for broader phishing operations and financial espionage. Divya is a Senior ...
1 week ago Cybersecuritynews.com Dark Caracal

Cybercrime Groups Offer Up to $20K/Month Jobs on the Dark Web - Cybercrime groups are increasingly running their operations as a business, promoting jobs on the dark web that offer developers and hackers competitive monthly salaries, paid time off, and paid sick leaves. In a new report by Kaspersky, which ...
2 years ago Bleepingcomputer.com

Understanding the Seizure of Dark Web Sites Linked to the Hive Ransomware - Recently, law enforcement seized several dark web sites linked to the Hive ransomware. The Hive ransomware is a potent form of malware that cybercriminals use to target organizations and individual computer users in order to demand a ransom for ...
2 years ago Bleepingcomputer.com

Asia-Focused Dark Web Threat Intelligence Startup StealthMole Raises $7 Million - StealthMole, a startup providing dark web threat intelligence focused on the Asian region, has raised $7 million in Series A funding. The investment round was led by Korea Investment Partners, with additional support from Hibiscus Fund and Smilegate ...
11 months ago Securityweek.com

Hundreds of Network Operators' Credentials Compromised on Dark Web - Leaked creds of RIPE, APNIC, AFRINIC, and LACNIC are available on the Dark Web. After doing a comprehensive scan of the Dark Web, Resecurity discovered that info stealer infections had compromised over 1,572 customers of RIPE, the Asia-Pacific ...
1 year ago Cysecurity.news

St. Lucie County Tax Collector Hacked by Ransomware Attacker 'Dark Cat' - Fort Pierce - Thursday November 16, 2023: A ransomware attack on the St. Lucie County Tax Collector was the initial cause of the network crash that has disrupted county internet services for the past two weeks. Tax Collector Chris Craft says no ...
1 year ago Wqcs.org

Why Infostealers are Stealing the Security Spotlight - The threat from Malware continues to escalate with infostealers, an increasingly popular variant. Research found that 24% of malware is now infostealers, and it's now one of the most popular topics on the cybercriminal underground. The malicious ...
1 year ago Cybersecurity-insiders.com

Fake and Stolen X Gold Accounts Flood Dark Web - A surge of fake or stolen X Gold accounts has been flooding marketplaces and forums both on the surface web and the dark web over the past year, according to CloudSEK. Threat actors have used multiple techniques to forge or steal X Gold accounts ...
1 year ago Infosecurity-magazine.com

Cybercriminals Exploit X Gold Badge, Selling Compromised Accounts on Dark Web - Organizations could obtain the coveted gold check mark through a monthly subscription. The report reveals that hackers are capitalizing on this feature by selling compromised accounts, complete with the gold verification badge, on dark web ...
1 year ago Cysecurity.news

Credentials are Still King: Leaked Credentials, Data Breaches and Dark Web Markets - Infostealers infect computers, steal all of the credentials saved in the browser along with active session cookies and other data, then export it back to command and control infrastructure before, in some cases, self-terminating. This article will ...
1 year ago Bleepingcomputer.com

Iran Threatens Israel's Critical Infrastructure With 'Polonium' Proxy - Israel's critical infrastructure is under threat from an Iranian proxy hacking group operating in Lebanon. Iran's partnership with armed militant groups throughout the Middle East is well documented. According to Microsoft, in the spring of 2022 ...
1 year ago Darkreading.com Dark Caracal POLONIUM Volatile Cedar

CVE-2024-29771 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in SoftLab Dracula Dark Mode - The Revolutionary Dark Mode Plugin For WordPress allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Dracula Dark Mode - The ...
11 months ago

UAE, Saudi Arabia Become Plum Cyberattack Targets - Hacktivism-related DDoS attacks have risen 70% in the region, most often targeting the public sector, while stolen data and access offers dominate the Dark Web. With the UAE and Saudi Arabia increasingly invested in digitization, AI development, and ...
5 months ago Darkreading.com

Doctor Sentenced to 8 Years in Prison for Hiring Dark Web Hitmen with Bitcoin - A former neonatologist from Spokane, Washington, Ronald Craig Ilg, has been sentenced to eight years in prison and ordered to pay more than $25,000 in restitution and a $100,000 fine for hiring hitmen on the dark web. Ilg had paid the criminals ...
2 years ago Hackread.com