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AI Social engineering
Exploiting AI: How Cybercriminals Misuse and Abuse AI and ML

We discuss the present state of the malicious uses and abuses of AI and ML and the plausible future scenarios in which cybercriminals might abuse these technologies for ill gain.

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Cybercriminal underground Cloud security
Cybercriminal ‘Cloud of Logs’: The Emerging Underground Business of Selling Access to Stolen Data

We take a closer look at an emerging underground market that is driven by malicious actors who sell access to a gargantuan amount of stolen data, frequently advertised in the underground as “cloud of logs."

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Cyber crime
COVID-19 Used in Malicious Campaigns

Threat actors take advantage of the spread of COVID-19 for malicious campaigns. Goods and services related to the virus also appear in underground marketplaces and cybercriminal forums.

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Ransomware & extortion
Ryuk 2020: Distributing Ransomware via TrickBot and BazarLoader

Starting this year, Ryuk began using another dropper called BazarLoader (also known as BazarBackdoor), which is primarily distributed via phishing emails that contain either malicious attachments or links to websites that host malware.

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IoT & smart devices
A Ride on Taiwan’s Self-Driving Bus

We went for a ride on the self-driving bus now being tested in Taiwan. Here are our insights.

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Operation Earth Kitsune: Tracking SLUB’s Current Operations

A watering hole campaign we dubbed as Operation Earth Kitsune is spying on users’ systems through compromised websites. Using SLUB and two new malware variants, the attacks exploit vulnerabilities including those of Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.

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Cybercriminal underground
Inside the Bulletproof Hosting Business: Cybercriminal Methods and OpSec

Bulletproof hosting (BPH) services have long been crucial parts of the cybercriminal infrastructure. How do they protect malicious activities, and how do cybercriminals use them to stay in business?

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Cybercriminal underground
Commodified Cybercrime Infrastructure: Exploring the Underground Services Market for Cybercriminals

The provision of services, as well as the way criminals operate in the underground, have gone through many changes over the years to cater to the market’s different infrastructure demands.

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Cyber crime Phishing & BEC Social engineering
New Bait Used in Instagram Profile Hacking Scheme

Hackers spread messages supposedly sent from Instagram Help Center claiming that the user's account is at risk of being deleted.

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Malicious Docker Hub Container Images Used for Cryptocurrency Mining

In our monitoring of Docker-related threats, we came across a threat actor who uploaded malicious images to Docker Hub for cryptocurrency mining.

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