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From Exposure to Takeover: The 15 billion stolen credentials allowing account takeover
Over the past 2.5 years, we have been analyzing how cybercriminals conspire to prey upon users of online services by “taking over” the accounts they all use...
Dark Web Monitoring: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Gaining access to dark web and deep web sources can be extremely powerful – if you focus on relevant use cases. The most successful strategies we observe have clear requirements, such as fraud detecti
29:51Dark Web Digest: Gaining Valuable Threat Intel from Cybercriminal Forums
In this webinar, Alex and Kacey cover dark web trends that we have recently observed, the risk impact associated with cybercriminal behaviors, and mitigation strategies for your organization.
COVID-19: Dark Web Reactions
Digital Shadows has been researching the cybercriminal response to the COVID-19 outbreak sweeping across the globe. We’ve been monitoring several dark web forums, looking for answers to questions ...
Ensuring order in the underground: Recruiting moderators on cybercriminal forums
While there have been many predictable consequences of the ongoing global COVID-19 (aka coronavirus) pandemic, few would have foreseen significant ...
How cybercriminals are taking advantage of COVID-19: Scams, fraud, and misinformation
While COVID-19 itself presents a significant global security risk to individuals and organizations across the world, cybercriminal activity around this global pandemic can result in financial damage a
New DDoS protection tool advertised on the dark web
This blog examines a newly launched DDoS protection filter mechanism dubbed EndGame advertised last week on the dark web community ...
WEEKLY: Maze Ransomware Alliance, EndGame DDoS Protection Tool, And Ransomware Disguises
Alex is joined by Kacey and Charles this week to chat through the top threat intel stories of the week. This week’s highlights include Zorab Ransomware Disguised as STOP Djvu Ransomware...
BitBazaar Market: Deception and Manipulation on the Dark Web
It’s a BitBazaar that they thought they could deceive us!: A Soap opera featuring dark web forums and marketplaces “When ...
Competitions on English-language cybercriminal forums: A stagnant competition model?
Russian-language cybercriminal forums aren’t the only ones to host competitions. In January 2020, we published a blog about competitions on ...
Charitable Endeavors on Cybercriminal Forums
One heart-warming aspect of modern society is the increased prevalence of charitable endeavors during times of crisis. Philanthropy has loomed ...
WEEKLY: WannaCry Anniversary, Wordpress Plugin Vuln, WeLeakData Compromised
The team starts this week’s episode with a retrospective look at WannaCry, discussing some core lessons learned from this ransomware attack.
A New Decade of Cyber Threats: Looking Back at the Trending Cyber Topics of Q1 2020
Q1 2020 was packed full of significant global events, including military and geopolitical tensions and the onset of the COVID-19 ...
WEEKLY: Competitions On English Forums, Purple Teaming, & Hacker Bribes 'Roblox' Insider
This week Alex chats with Kacey, Charles, and Rick around competitions we’ve been seeing on English-language cybercriminal forums and how they compare to the ones on Russian-language forums,...
Nulled: The modern cybercriminal forum to go mobile….?
What’s more threatening than the thought of a cybercriminal sitting at their laptop and carefully manipulating their way into your ...
Coronavirus as a double-edged sword for cybercriminals: Desperation or opportunity?
The ongoing COVID-19 (aka coronavirus) pandemic is having a highly detrimental effect on most businesses and organizations, yet companies linked ...
Recon: Dark web reconnaissance made to look easy
Just as the rest of us enjoy the ease of obtaining all sorts of products provided by the countless e-commerce ...
WEEKLY: COVID-19 Third Party App Risks, Zoom, And DarkHotel Hackers
Coming to you from Dallas this week - we have Kacey, Harrison, Alex, and Charles. This week the team talks through third party app risks as they relate to COVID-19, as well as touch on security...
Kapusta.World: The fiendish cabbage exemplifying cybercriminal marketing in the modern era
Since last fall, the threat actor behind a new service called “Kapusta.World” has diligently worked to advertise their offerings across multiple Russian-language forums.