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U.S. Federal Authorities Disable China-Linked “KV-Botnet” Aimed at SOHO Routers

The U.S. government announced on Wednesday that it has taken significant action to disrupt a botnet composed of hundreds of small office and home office (SOHO) routers based in the United States. This botnet, referred to as the KV-botnet, is linked to Volt Typhoon, a state-sponsored threat actor associated with…

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U.S. Department of Justice Takes Down Warzone RAT Network and Arrests Major Operators

The U.S. Justice Department (DoJ) announced a significant operation on Friday involving the seizure of online infrastructure linked to the distribution of a remote access trojan (RAT) known as Warzone RAT. This infrastructure comprised several domains, including a notable one, www.warzone[.]ws. These sites reportedly facilitated the sale of malware, enabling…

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Iranian Hackers Launch MFA Push Bombing Attacks on Microsoft 365 and Citrix Systems

Iranian Hackers Target Critical Infrastructure with Advanced Techniques Recent intelligence from a collaborative cybersecurity advisory issued by CISA, FBI, and NSA has raised alarms about Iranian hackers aggressively targeting critical infrastructure across sectors such as healthcare, government, IT, engineering, and energy. These threat actors utilize a combination of brute force…

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Brazil Apprehends Hacker Known as ‘USDoD’ in FBI Infragard Breach – Krebs on Security

Brazilian authorities have apprehended a 33-year-old man believed to be connected to “USDoD,” a notorious cybercriminal known for significant data breaches. USDoD gained notoriety in 2022 after executing an infiltration of the FBI’s InfraGard program, resulting in the unauthorized release of personal information pertaining to 80,000 members. More recently, the…

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FBI Takes Down BreachForums Again, Encourages Users to Report Criminal Activities

FBI Seizes BreachForums in International Cybercrime Crackdown In a significant move against cybercriminal activities, law enforcement agencies have successfully regained control of the infamous BreachForums platform, known for facilitating the sales of stolen data, marking the second such operation within a year. The domain "breachforums[.]st" has been replaced by a…

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FBI Disbands Dispossessor Ransomware Group by Seizing Servers in the U.S., U.K., and Germany

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has successfully disrupted the online infrastructure supporting the emerging ransomware group known as Radar Announced on Monday, this operation led to the dismantling of multiple servers across several countries, including three in the United States, three in the United Kingdom, and eighteen in…

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Future-Proofing Against Evolving Attacks: Safeguarding Your Users’ Identities

The FBI and CISA Release Advisory Addressing New Ransomware Threats The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have issued a joint advisory aimed at mitigating the rising threat of ransomware attacks, as part of their ongoing #StopRansomware initiative. Released on August 29, 2023, the advisory, identified as…

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