Cybercrime & Digital Threats

Google indefinitely suspends extensions that use the Chrome Web Store payments while Mozilla bans 197 add-ons in a quest to halt fraudulent activities.

Over 2,000 WordPress sites were compromised by a malicious script that redirects visitors to scam sites, gains admin access, and installs fake plugins.

A recent BEC campaign targets organizations by sending them emails with IMG (disk imaging) file attachments hiding a NetWire remote access trojan.

A new sextortion scheme threatens to expose nude videos supposedly captured via victims' mobile phones and home cameras.

A hacker published a massive list of Telnet usernames and passwords for more than 515,000 servers, routers, and IoT devices.

On January 17, Microsoft published an advisory (ADV200001) warning users about CVE-2020-0674, a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability involving Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) web browser.

An updated version of mobile malware FakeToken was found sending massive numbers of offensive messages to foreign countries.

A Texas school district is investigating an email phishing attack after a series of transactions resulted in the loss of an estimated US$2.3 million.

The cryptocurrency-miner, a multi-component threat comprised of different Perl and Bash scripts, miner binaries, the application hider Xhide, and a scanner tool, propagates by scanning vulnerable machines and brute-forcing (primarily default) credentials.