CSO Magazine

MARCH 9, 2023

The cybercrime underground has long functioned as an open market where sellers of products and services are paired with buyers and contractors. One of the most valuable commodities on this market are stolen credentials since they can provide attackers with access into networks, databases, and other assets owned by organizations.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 12, 2022

Wilson was opening keynote speaker at the recent CSO UK Security Summit where she reflected upon the biggest changes in the risk and security landscape and how CISOs must respond to lead teams and embrace emerging opportunities.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 24, 2022

In the world of cybercrime, there is not always much good news it seems. Cybercrime is big business with a vast network of players. However, recently there have been some victories against ransomware criminals. The Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model is part of it.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 28, 2023

Researchers warn that a financially motivated cybercrime group known as FIN7 is compromising Veeam Backup & Replication servers and deploying malware on them.

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

As NETSCOUT’s 1H 2021 Threat Intelligence Report shows, the long tail of cybercrime innovation swept through the lockdown days of the COVID-19 pandemic to infiltrate the bulk of 2021. The vulnerabilities introduced by the global shift to online work and play are admittedly an outlier event. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

Announced in June 2022, the Cybercrime Atlas is an initiative from the World Economic Forum (WEF) to map activities of cybercriminals and create a database that can be used by law enforcement across the world to disrupt the cyber-criminal ecosystem.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 7, 2023

Free speech and digital privacy appear to be key components left out of a United Nations (UN) Cybercrime Treaty being proposed, primarily, by Russia. And what has emerged so far contemplates [ PDF ] more than 30 new cybercrime offenses, with few concessions to free speech or human rights."

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

And get the latest on ransomware trends and on cybercrime legislation and prevention! Thats a key takeaway from Cybercrime: A Multifaceted National Security Threat, a report releaesd this week by Googles Threat Intelligence Group. bill seeks tougher punishments for cybercrimes A bill introduced by two U.S.

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2022

By Steve Ginty, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence (MDTI) Cybercrime is big and growing bigger. So much so that it can often be difficult to fully understand the impact online attacks have driven over the past decades.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2023

Cybercrime is a growing scourge that transcends borders, spreading across the boundaries of virtually all the world's nearly 200 nation-states. Now, the United Nations has a major initiative to develop a new and more inclusive approach to addressing cybercrime that would replace a two-decades-old international cybercrime convention.

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CSO Magazine

JULY 22, 2022

An underground economy that mirrors its legitimate ecommerce counterpart is supercharging online criminal behavior, according to a report released Thursday by HP Wolf Security in collaboration with Forensic Pathways.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2023

Today, cybercrime-as-a-service is a lucrative and growing business model among criminals. Today, nearly every aspect of the cybercrime toolkit — from initial infection to ways to avoid detection — is available for purchase on the dark web, say researchers. Ransomware is still a massive threat to organizations.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 23, 2022

A new report released by the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) shows that financial losses due to suspected cybercrime continued to rise sharply over the course of 2021, to a total of $6.9 billion in that year alone, with 847,000 complaints lodged by victims. billion, on 301,580 complaints.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2022

Researchers warn of a sophisticated cybercriminal group that has been stealing millions of dollars from finance and commerce organizations over the past year by breaking into networks via legacy Java applications and then laying low to learn internal financial processes. The group, which researchers from incident response firm ??Sygnia

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

A UK/US campaign to tackle international cybercrime has seen Seven Russian cybercriminals linked to a notorious ransomware group exposed and sanctioned. The sanctions were announced today by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) alongside the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2022

and UK residents conducted by Censuswide and commissioned by identity verification vendor Onfido released today said that popular culture – specifically, true-crime shows and movies – are having an outsized effect on the public’s understanding of cybercrime. A survey of U.S.

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

In this era of cybersecurity, when nation-state digital attacks and cybercrime quickly cut across country borders and create global crises, international cooperation has become an urgent priority.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 7, 2025

(Source: ISACAs Tech Workplace and Culture 2025 report, March 2025) For more information about recruiting and retaining cybersecurity professionals: 10 Ways to Boost Cybersecurity Talent Retention (InformationWeek) 60% of cybersecurity pros looking to change employers (CSO) The cybersecurity industry has an urgent talent shortage.

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Looking at history, this does not bode well for levels of cybercrime. However, there is some evidence that macroeconomic conditions can impact cybercrime. In times of economic downturn, for example, cybercrime may increase as people turn to illegal activities to make money. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 31, 2021

The unwanted attention attracted by ransomware attacks recently have caused several of the top cybercrime forums to ban ransomware discussions and transactions on their platforms earlier this year. The truth is that ransomware is the life blood of the cybercrime economy and it will take extraordinary measures to put an end to it.

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CSO Magazine

JULY 5, 2021

Ransomware evolved from a menial cybercrime issue to a crisis that threatens national security. Incidents such as the Colonial Pipeline attack show that this type of criminal activity can impact not just specific organizations that lack good security practices, but every citizen.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 30, 2022

Costa Rica has been struck not by an earthquake or a bomb or a strike, but by a new national crisis: cybercrime. Nation-states, for-profit cybercrime syndicates, political activists, and determined pranksters trawl the web every hour of every day, looking for their next victim.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 18, 2021

Ransomware has taken center stage in the cybercrime ecosystem, causing over $1 billion in losses last year around the world and earning criminals hundreds of millions of dollars in profits. At the same time, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, which have also traditionally been used to extort businesses, returned in force.

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The evolution of cybercrime is weighing heavily on digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) teams, leading to significant burnout and potential regulatory risk. That’s according to the 2023 State of Enterprise DFIR survey by Magnet Forensics , a developer of digital investigation solutions.

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CSO Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Our world is getting increasingly digitized, and cybercrime continues to break new records. As cyber risks intensify, organizations are beefing up defenses and adding more outside consultants and resources to their teams.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2022

Cybercrime is fueled by a complex ecosystem of criminal groups that specialize on different pieces of the final attack chains experienced by victims. There are the malware developers, the access brokers, the spammers, the private information sellers, the botnet operators, the malvertizers and more.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 20, 2022

This has happened as the cybercrime cartels have evolved beyond wire transfer frauds to target market strategies, take over brokerage accounts, and island-hop into banks, according to the report.

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 21, 2022

A security expert who wanted to remain anonymous to protect his family says that "several people focusing on cybercrime have received death threats" in the past few years, and some of them even decided to fly under the radar or move to do other things.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 30, 2023

Since then, he has defused global viruses, searched for the first virus authors in a Pakistani conflict zone, and traveled the globe advising law enforcement and governments on cybercrime. He has also recently published a book, If It’s Smart, It’s Vulnerable , where he explains how the growth of internet connectivity has fueled cyber threats.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 1, 2022

“It's worth noting that the situation is really quite unprecedented,” Brett Callow, threat analyst at Emsisoft, tells CSO. “I We obviously have multiple activist groups operating on behalf of both sides, as well as certain cybercrime groups taking sides, as well as intelligence services invariably doing the things they normally do.”

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 20, 2022

“Emotet has been one of the most professional and long-lasting cybercrime services out there,” according to Europol. It was thought the malware, first discovered in 2014, had been vanquished by law enforcement agencies from eight countries in January 2021. However, it reportedly resurfaced this past November.

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The involvement of hacktivists and cybercrime groups in the conflict, supporting one side or another, could spiral into a wave of escalating attacks and provide cover for destructive cyber actions directed by government agencies.

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

And more cybercrime. The unfortunate truth is that the holidays have always been big for cybercrime, and this year is most definitely not an exception. More sales, more traffic, bigger crowds, more support calls, longer hours, increased foot traffic, bigger promotions, extra communications.

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

According to a new report from cybercrime intelligence firm Intel 471, the latest development in 2FA bypassing involves the use of robocalls with interactive messages that are meant to trick users into handing over their one-time passwords (OTPs) in real-time as attackers are trying to access their accounts.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2022

INTERPOL and the Nigerian Federal Police today announced the arrests of 11 business email compromise (BEC) actors in Nigeria as part of an international operation to disrupt and tackle sophisticated BEC cybercrime.

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Despite the variation in reporting relationships, the survey revealed no significant differences regarding security function ownership between the CISO or CIO relating to views on increased or decreased cyberattacks, the ability to detect and respond to cyberthreats, and cybercrime reporting. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2023

The Scattered Spider cybercrime group has recently been observed attempting to deploy a malicious kernel driver using a tactic called bring your own vulnerable driver (BYOVD) — a warning to security professionals that the technique, which exploits longstanding deficiencies in Windows kernel protections, is still being employed by cybercriminals, according (..)

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