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WinRAR
Attackers exploited WinRAR zero-day for months to steal money from brokers (CVE-2023-38831)

Financially-motivated attackers have exploited a zero-day vulnerability in WinRAR (CVE-2023-38831) to trick traders into installing malware that would allow them to steal …

extortion
Growing scam activity linked to social media and automation

The average number of scam resources created per brand across all regions and industries more than doubled year-on-year in 2022, up 162%, according to Group-IB. Additionally, …

ChatGPT
Compromised ChatGPT accounts garner rapid dark web popularity

Compromised credentials were found within the logs of info-stealing malware traded on illicit dark web marketplaces over the past year, according to Group-IB. The number of …

phishing kits
Phishing campaigns thrive as evasive tactics outsmart conventional detection

A 25% increase in the use of phishing kits has been recorded in 2022, according to Group-IB. The key phishing trends observed are the increasing use of access control and …

cryptocurrency
Scams targeting crypto enthusiasts are becoming increasingly common

Group-IB has noted a fivefold increase in the number of domains used for crypto giveaway scams that involve fake YouTube streams in the first half of 2022. This Help Net …

Crypto giveaway scams continue to escalate

Group-IB has noted a fivefold increase in the number of domains used for crypto giveaway scams that involve fake YouTube streams in the first half of 2022. In addition to …

phishing
0ktapus: Twilio, Cloudflare phishers targeted 130+ organizations

Group-IB has discovered that the recently disclosed phishing attacks on the employees of Twilio and Cloudflare were part of the massive phishing campaign that resulted in …

find
APT41 group: 4 malicious campaigns, 13 victims, new tools and techniques

Group-IB has released new research on the state-sponsored hacker group APT41. The Group-IB Threat Intelligence team estimates that in 2021 the threat actors gained access to …

office building
Group-IB splits its domestic and international business into two separate companies

Group-IB has completed the first step in a series of actions aimed at separating its Russia and CIS business. Group-IB has just transferred its activities in Russia to a new …

Group-IB Unified Risk Platform
Product showcase: Group-IB Unified Risk Platform

The cyber threat landscape has intensified. Threat actors are organized and professionalized, with ransomware gangs outsourcing the first step of their operations to Initial …

ransomware
Conti effectively created an extortion-oriented IT company, says Group-IB

In slightly more than a month, the Conti ransomware collective compromised more than 40 companies worldwide, and the fastest attack took only three days, Group-IB’s noted in …

Scams account for most of all financially motivated cybercrime

The scam industry is becoming more structured and involves more and more parties divided into hierarchical groups, according to Group-IB. The number of such groups jumped to a …

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