Автор: Kristina Beek, Associate Editor, Dark Reading

M&S has launched an investigation and said some customer operations are impacted.

Attackers are using credentials stolen via phishing websites that purport to be legitimate securities company homepages, duping victims and selling their stocks before they realize they’ve been hacked.

The Texas municipality is following its incident response playbook as it works with a third-party to investigate the scope and scale of the attack.

The threat actor uses sophisticated social engineering techniques to infect a victim’s device, either with an infostealer or remote access Trojan (RAT).

The vulnerability is only found in the vendor’s router series and can be triggered by an attacker using a crafted request — all of which helps make it a highly critical vulnerability with a 9.2 CVSS score.

The agency is recommending that organizations and individuals implement its recommendations to prevent the misuse of stolen data, though Oracle has yet to publicly do the same for its customers.

The threat actors lace pre-downloaded applications with malware to steal cryptocurrency by covertly swapping users’ wallet addresses with their own.

Bad bots are becoming increasingly difficult to detect as they more easily mimic human behaviors and utilize evasion techniques, researchers say.

Customer data such as birth dates, credit card numbers and driver’s license information were stolen when threat actors exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in Cleo-managed file transfer products.

Prodaft is currently buying accounts from five Dark Web forums and offers to pay extra for administrator or moderator accounts. The idea is to infiltrate forums to boost its threat intelligence.