Cybersecurity

Hackers Exploit Google Tag Manager to Deploy Credit Card Skimmers on Magento Stores

Feb 10, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Payment Security Threat actors have been observed leveraging Google Tag Manager (GTM) to deliver credit card skimmer malware targeting Magento-based...

Bengal cat lovers in Australia get psspsspss’d in Google-driven Gootloader campaign – Sophos News

Once used exclusively by the cybercriminals behind REVil ransomware and the Gootkit banking trojan, GootLoader and its primary payload have evolved into an initial...

What “Nigerian” spam looks like in the mid-2020s

“Nigerian” spam is a collective term for messages designed to entice victims with alluring offers and draw them into an email exchange with scammers,...

SSL 2.0 turns 30 this Sunday… Perhaps the time has come to let it die?, (Fri, Feb 7th)

The SSL 2.0 protocol was originally published back in February of 1995, and although it was quickly found to have significant security weaknesses, and...

Who’s Behind the Seized Forums ‘Cracked’ & ‘Nulled’? – Krebs on Security

The FBI joined authorities across Europe last week in seizing domain names for Cracked and Nulled, English-language cybercrime forums with millions of users that...

Man Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison for Role in $50M Internet Scam

A California man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for his involvement in a fraudulent scheme that saw over 50 individuals and...

Hijacked Line – Darknet Diaries

Full Transcript Conor Freeman (x.com/conorfrmn) stole money online. Lot’s of it. In this episode we talk with him, and hear how...

Defending your personal data from dark web criminals

Cybercrime You may not always stop your personal information from ending up in...

Weekly Update 437

It's IoT time! We're embarking on a very major home project (more detail of which is in the video), and some pretty big decisions...

Cybercriminals still not fully on board the AI train (yet) – Sophos News

In November 2023, Sophos X-Ops published research exploring threat actors’ attitudes towards generative AI, focusing on discussions on selected cybercrime forums. While we did...

CISA and FDA Warn of Critical Backdoor in Contec CMS8000 Patient Monitors

Jan 31, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Healthcare The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have issued alerts about...

Sophos MDR tracks two ransomware campaigns using “email bombing,” Microsoft Teams “vishing” – Sophos News

Sophos X-Ops’ Managed Detection and Response (MDR) is actively responding to incidents tied to two separate groups of threat actors, each of which have...

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