Operators of the ransomware-as-a-service group are claiming that the project is closed and that their entire infrastructure will be turned off. Image: jijomathaidesigners/Shutterstock The BlackMatter ransomware group is reportedly closing up shop due to pressure from law enforcement officials. A Wednesday Twitter post from malware researcher VX-Underground broke the news with a screenshot of a statement apparently from BlackMatter operators. Roughly translated from Russian into English, the statement reads as follows: “Due to certain unsolvable…

Cybersecurity researchers uncovered a huge botnet, tracked as Pink, that already infected over 1.6 million devices most of them located in China. Qihoo 360’s Netlab Cybersecurity researchers discovered a huge botnet, tracked as Pink, that already infected over 1.6 million devices. The botnet was created to launch DDoS attacks and to insert advertisements in the legitimate HTTP traffic of the victims, most of which are in China (96%). According to the experts, Pink is the…

MITMA’s stands for Man in The Middle Attacks, and is the term used to describe one the oldest but still exceptionally popular forms of attack. In this attack, a hacker intercepts an unsecure wireless connection, and places themselves between two computers/devices that are in communication with one another. Once the hacker is on the network, the attacker then impersonates both sides to steal information and sensitive data, to hijack emails, SSL hijack, eavesdrop into conversations….

Jeff Moss, also known as The Dark Tangent, is a well-known figure in the security community, as the founder of Defcon and Black Hat security conferences. Moss is also a hacker, a moniker that everyone doesn’t understand well. In a keynote session at the SecTor security conference on November 3, Moss detailed the evolution of the hacking movement from the 1970s through to the modern era. He started his talk by declaring that people fear…

It’s little surprise that a digital currency scam based on the popular Squid Games series on Netflix is making the news.   If you haven’t caught wind of it yet, the story goes along the following lines:  Note that this Squid Game cryptocurrency had no relationship to the show or to Netflix, aside from hijacking the Squid Game name without permission so that the scammers could use it as bait.  The Squid Game scam: one of many cryptocurrency scams  Scams such as this are nothing…

It’s little surprise that a digital currency scam based on the popular Squid Games series on Netflix is making the news.   If you haven’t caught wind of it yet, the story goes along the following lines:  Note that this Squid Game cryptocurrency had no relationship to the show or to Netflix, aside from hijacking the Squid Game name without permission so that the scammers could use it as bait.  The Squid Game scam: one of many cryptocurrency scams  Scams such as this are nothing…