The long-running Blackgear cyber espionage campaign that has largely targeted Taiwanese, Japanese and South Korean targets recently commenced a new operation that abuses legitimate blog and social media sites to establish command-and-control infrastructure.
Federal prosecutors accused 21-year-old Colton Ray Grubbs of conspiring with others to market and distribute the malware for $40 as an affordable hacking option to more than 8,600 customers, according to Europol.
The Russian threat group Fancy Bear appears to be behind a recent campaign that may have targeted Italy's navy with an updated version of the APT group's XAgent backdoor malware, according to researchers.
There is no doubt the World Cup has a negative impact on business productivity, but it may come as a surprise to find cybercriminals are no different and take the day off when their nation's squad is playing.
An ongoing malware campaign that attempts to exploit web servers susceptible to the Drupalgeddon 2.0 bug in order to infect them with an XMRig-based cryptominer has generated around $11,000 in profits since commencing last April and peaking on May 20.
