A New Hampshire town is reeling from the “very shocking” cybercrime that claimed more than 14% of its annual budget. Peterborough is a 7,000-person town with a budget for the fiscal year of just over $15.8m. Cyber-thieves conned the town out of $2.3m through two business email compromise (BEC) scams.  First the criminals used forged documents and compromised email accounts to pose as staff at the local school district. This enabled them to divert a million-dollar transfer…

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Cyber Division has issued a flash warning over an organized cyber-criminal gang calling itself OnePercent Group.  In a TLP: WHITE alert published Monday, the FBI said the group has been targeting companies in the United States since November 2020.  OnePercent’s modus operandi is to use the threat emulation software Cobalt Strike to perpetuate ransomware attacks. The infection process begins in the victim’s inbox. “OnePercent Group actors compromised victims through a phishing email in which an attachment is…

Atlas VPN’s analysis finds that theft within decentralized finance networks is taking in more money than phishing and ransomware attacks. Image: ValeryBrozhinsky, Getty Images/iStockphoto Criminals are modernizing classic investment scam tactics and bringing them to the world of DeFi where there are no rules or regulations to protect investors. Atlas VPN analyzed financial hacks over the last two-and-a-half years and found that DeFi hacks represent 76% of all major hacks for the first half of…

The United States and Singapore have agreed to cooperate on cybersecurity and climate change issues. On August 23, Singapore’s prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong, announced that three cybersecurity agreements had been signed by the cyber, defense, and finance agencies of both countries.  The announcement was made during a visit to Singapore by US vice president Kamala Harris. On Monday, Loong and Harris spent 90 minutes together in a meeting that Harris described as “productive.” Speaking at a…

You can remove or update a single entry from the SSH known_hosts file Length: 1:28 | Aug 24, 2021 Sometimes you might need to remove or update an SSH fingerprint of your remote machines in the known_hosts file. Jack Wallen shows you how. Source link

The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Anomali Cyber Watch discuss the following topics: APT37 (InkySquid), BlueLight, Ransomware, T-Mobile Data Breach, Critical Vulnerabilities, IoT, Kalay, Neurevt, and ProxyShell. The IOCs related to these stories are attached to Anomali Cyber Watch and can be used to check your logs for potential malicious activity. Figure 1 – IOC Summary Charts. These charts summarize the IOCs attached to this magazine and provide a glimpse of…

That email asking for proof of vaccination might be a phishing scam Source link