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FBI disrupts Russian Moobot botnet infecting Ubiquiti routers
The FBI took down a botnet of small office/home office (SOHO) routers used by Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff (GRU) to proxy malicious traffic and to target the United States and its allies in spearphishing and credential theft attacks.
- February 15, 2024
- 01:00 PM
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FBI seizes Warzone RAT infrastructure, arrests malware vendor
The FBI dismantled the Warzone RAT malware operation, seizing infrastructure and arresting two individuals associated with the cybercrime operation.
- February 12, 2024
- 06:09 PM
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FBI disrupts Chinese botnet by wiping malware from infected routers
The FBI has disrupted the KV-botnet used by Chinese Volt Typhoon state hackers to evade detection during attacks targeting U.S. critical infrastructure.
- January 31, 2024
- 12:43 PM
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FBI: Tech support scams now use couriers to collect victims' money
Today, the FBI warned about courier services being used to collect money and valuables from victims of tech support and government impersonation scams.
- January 29, 2024
- 11:31 AM
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The law enforcement operations targeting cybercrime in 2023
In 2023, we saw numerous law enforcement operations targeting cybercrime operations, including cryptocurrency scams, phishing attacks, credential theft, malware development, and ransomware attacks.
- January 01, 2024
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The Week in Ransomware - December 22nd 2023 - BlackCat hacked
Earlier this month, the BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware operation suffered a five-day disruption to their Tor data leak and negotiation sites, rumored to be caused by a law enforcement action.
- December 22, 2023
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FBI: ALPHV ransomware raked in $300 million from over 1,000 victims
The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang has made over $300 million in ransom payments from more than 1,000 victims worldwide as of September 2023, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
- December 19, 2023
- 02:32 PM
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FBI disrupts Blackcat ransomware operation, creates decryption tool
The Department of Justice announced today that the FBI successfully breached the ALPHV ransomware operation's servers to monitor their activities and obtain decryption keys.
- December 19, 2023
- 09:16 AM
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FBI: Play ransomware breached 300 victims, including critical orgs
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says the Play ransomware gang has breached roughly 300 organizations worldwide between June 2022 and October 2023, some of them critical infrastructure entities.
- December 18, 2023
- 11:24 AM
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FBI shares tactics of notorious Scattered Spider hacker collective
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released an advisory about the evasive threat actor tracked as Scattered Spider, a loosely knit hacking collective that now collaborates with the ALPHV/BlackCat Russian ransomware operation..
- November 16, 2023
- 04:55 PM
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FBI and CISA warn of opportunistic Rhysida ransomware attacks
The FBI and CISA warned today of Rhysida ransomware gang's opportunistic attacks targeting organizations across multiple industry sectors.
- November 15, 2023
- 12:46 PM
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IPStorm botnet with 23,000 proxies for malicious traffic dismantled
The U.S. Department of Justive announced today that Federal Bureau of Investigation took down the network and infrastructure of a botnet proxy service called IPStorm.
- November 14, 2023
- 07:05 PM
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FBI: Royal ransomware asked 350 victims to pay $275 million
The FBI and CISA revealed in a joint advisory that the Royal ransomware gang has breached the networks of at least 350 organizations worldwide since September 2022.
- November 13, 2023
- 03:40 PM
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FBI: Ransomware gangs hack casinos via 3rd party gaming vendors
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is warning that ransomware threat actors are targeting casino servers and use legitimate system management tools to increase their permissions on the network.
- November 08, 2023
- 11:44 AM
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FBI warns of extortion groups targeting plastic surgery offices
The FBI warned of cybercriminals using spoofed emails and phone numbers to target plastic surgery offices across the United States for extortion in phishing attacks that spread malware.
- October 18, 2023
- 02:55 AM
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CISA, FBI urge admins to patch Atlassian Confluence immediately
CISA, FBI, and MS-ISAC warned network admins today to immediately patch their Atlassian Confluence servers against a maximum severity flaw actively exploited in attacks.
- October 16, 2023
- 11:05 AM
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FBI shares AvosLocker ransomware technical details, defense tips
The U.S. government has updated the list of tools AvosLocker ransomware affiliates use in attacks to include open-source utilities along with custom PowerShell, and batch scripts.
- October 12, 2023
- 07:38 PM
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FBI warns of surge in 'phantom hacker' scams impacting the elderly
The FBI issued a public service announcement warning of a significant increase in 'phantom hacker' scams targeting senior citizens across the United States.
- October 02, 2023
- 11:01 AM
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FBI: Dual ransomware attack victims now get hit within 48 hours
The FBI has warned about a new trend in ransomware attacks where multiple strains are deployed on victims' networks to encrypt systems in under two days.
- September 28, 2023
- 02:14 PM
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Iranian hackers breach US aviation org via ManageEngine, Fortinet bugs
State-backed hacking groups have breached a U.S. aeronautical organization using exploits targeting critical Zoho ManageEngine and Fortinet vulnerabilities, a joint advisory published by CISA, the FBI, and the United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) revealed on Thursday.
- September 07, 2023
- 05:32 PM
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