Fraudulent Unemployment, COVID-19 Relief Claims Earn BEC Gang Millions
The business email compromise (BEC) gang Scattered Canary has filed more than 200 fraudulent claims for unemployment benefits and for COVID-19 relief funds.
Government
Alleged Hacker Behind Massive ‘Collection 1’ Data Dump Arrested
The threat actor known as ‘Sanix’ had terabytes of stolen credentials at his residence, authorities said.
Ransomware Gang Arrested for Spreading Locky to Hospitals
A group of four people calling themselves “Pentaguard” were arrested in house raids.
“Healthy Together” app uses a raft of location data, including GPS, cell tower triangulation and Bluetooth, to pinpoint users and ID coronavirus hotspots.
Future features include plenty of self-reporting options, and officials’ fears the data could be misused.
The APT’s new cyber-attack tools are laid bare on three-year anniversary of WannaCry.
Threat actors are buying and selling taxpayer data on hacker forums as well as using phishing and other campaigns to steal various U.S. government payouts.
The Chinese APT has been discovered behind a five-year espionage campaign that compromises government servers – and uses that as leverage for other attacks.
The PhantomLance espionage campaign is targeting specific victims, mainly in Southeast Asia — and could be the work of the OceanLotus APT.
Iran’s Charming Kitten and other nation-state actors are using the coronavirus pandemic to their advantage, for espionage.
