Cybercrime & Digital Threats

Esports competitions continue to gain momentum, making the entities involved more attractive targets for cybercrime.

A look into cryptocurrencies' state and how cybercriminals abuse miner malware to profit at the expense of legitimate businesses, how to find signs of infection, and recommendations to defend systems from its abuse.

Threat actors launched phishing attempts against several humanitarian and non-governmental organizations.

This report covers two noteworthy incidents that took place in Europe: a ransomware attack crippling a German automation company and business email compromise (BEC) operators getting arrested in Spain.

A security company found cryptocurrency miner malware running undetected in more than half of the workstations in a European international airport.

A report highlights how “access-as-a-service” providers and ransomware groups have come together to compromise and victimize more targets, mostly corporate networks.

Over 2,000 Docker hosts have been infected by a worm that discreetly uses them to mine the Monero cryptocurrency.

Imperva recently revealed the primary cause of a breach that accidentally exposed customer data (which included email addresses, hashed & salted passwords, as well as TLS and API keys).

A successful phishing attack exposed medical and personal information of around 60k patients in Indiana. The attack gave an unknown threat actor unauthorized access to the two email accounts and the information contained in them.