Fast food chain Chick-fil-A has experienced a data breach stemming from credential stuffing attacks using login details from a third-party source to compromise accounts.
The total cost of cybercrime jumped to $12.5 billion in 2023, and the FBI logged a record 880,418 complaints (a 10% increase from the previous year). This is in part being fed by ransomware attacks, which came close to doubling in total cost from 2022 to 2023.
The FBI warned that BlackCat ransomware had compromised 60 organizations worldwide as of March 2022 and demanded millions in ransom payment. Alert linked BlackCat to the now-defunct BlackMatter ransomware group.
New FBI alert warns of cybercriminals targeting mobile banking apps during the Coronavirus pandemic which has witnessed a 50% rise in adoption of online banking.
The FBI warned about the prevalent use of proxies and configurations to mask and automate credential stuffing attacks. Threat actors extensively leveraged residential proxies instead of those connected to data centers to avoid triggering suspicious behavior monitors.
The FBI has warned about North Korean hackers Kimsuky leveraging QR codes in phishing attacks targeting U.S. and foreign government entities, academia, think tanks, and others.
The FBI warned higher education institutions that cyber criminals were selling their login credentials on publicly-accessible and dark web Russian hacker forums.
The Department of Education, FBI, and DHS CISA responded to a cyber attack and confirmed a ransomware incident on the second-largest school district, Los Angeles School District (LAUSD), over the Labor Day Weekend.
New vishing trend is thought to be responsible for the successful breaches of Twitter and several other high-profile targets in recent months.
The FBI and Europol seized 48 internet domains for DDoS-for-hire services in a multi-prong operation, charged six administrators with cybercrimes, and obtained customer databases.
