Darknet
The Data Breach Epidemic – Key Findings from Verint’s comprehensive CTI report
In the past few years we have witnessed a growing number of significant data breaches. The Data Breach Epidemic Report reviews the most significant data breaches that occurred in 2018 and provides our analysis of the major data leaks. It also includes key trends we identified based on ~5B leaked records detected and analyzed by …
The Awakening of PoS Malware (or, has it really been dormant?)
The peak of activity of Point-of-Sale (PoS) malware was in late 2013 (with the disclosure of the notorious Target breach[1]), and over the course of 2014, when we witnessed the development and trade of new PoS malware strains. The vigorous discussions on hacking communities at the time, has led hackers to believe PoS malware would …
A New Darknet Platform Publishes a Huge Amount of Data, from Around the World
In the past few months, an alleged group of transparency advocates, headed by activist Emma Best (@NatSecGeek), created an online repository of leaked data similar to WikiLeaks, named “Distributed Denial of Secrets” (@DDoSecrets). Our initial examination revealed that the repository includes a great volume of data aggregated from past leaks, but also several new ones. …
The hackers behind the ‘9/11 papers’ extortion
On December 31, 2018, a cybercrime group going by the handle The Dark Overlord (hereafter TDO) claimed he had hacked an unnamed company, and exfiltrated a large volume of sensitive documents related to the 9/11 terror attacks-related lawsuits. TDO aims to extort the impacted organizations into paying a Bitcoin ransom and he already published batches …