Cybercrime & Digital Threats

A post in a predominantly Russian-language dark web forum was reportedly selling a data dump with records that had an unusual "extra" bit of data: each record included a selfie of the user.

An Android adware named RottenSys has reportedly affected nearly 5 million Android devices since 2016, with the capability to turn affected devices into becoming part of a botnet.

Security researchers uncovered a traffic distribution system (TDS) being advertised as a service in the dark web. Named “BlackTDS,” the TDS is used to deploy malware and redirect would-be victims to exploit kits.

After monitoring and detecting suspicious domains—now what? Affected businesses should deactivate them so fraudsters won’t be able to use them for their schemes. Here's how it can be done.

MIT's recent research delved into 126,000 stories tweeted by around 3 million accounts from 2006 to 2017 and found that fake news spread faster and were more likely to be retweeted than true stories.

Users of cryptocurrency exchange Binance began noticing irregular trading on the platform a few days ago. An investigation revealed an organized and large-scale scheme to transfer bitcoin to several malicious actors. Automatic alarms were triggered and Binance

There has been a sudden surge of memcached servers being abused for DDoS attacks. Proof-of-concept exploit codes have been published, but mitigation techniques and an update from the service provider are also available.

RMH Franchise Holdings (RMH), which owns and operates more than 160 Applebee’s restaurants, recently disclosed that malware were uncovered on their point-of-sale (PoS) systems.

Researchers have discovered a vulnerability in the mail transfer agent (MTA) Exim. If exploited, attackers could execute arbitrary code on vulnerable servers remotely. Exim has already released a patch for this and urges everyone to update immediately.