Categoria: cibercrime
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STJ: Ransomware e competência federal
Gostaria de compartilhar uma decisão recente da Terceira Seção do Superior Tribunal de Justiça (STJ) que lança luz sobre a competência em casos de ransomware.A relevância desse precedente se dá não apenas pela resolução do caso em questão, mas também por sua contribuição à jurisprudência no âmbito da cibercriminalidade. O conflito negativo de competência (CC…
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Revealed: the hacking and disinformation team meddling in elections
A team of Israeli contractors who claim to have manipulated more than 30 elections around the world using hacking, sabotage and automated disinformation on social media has been exposed in a new investigation. The unit is run by Tal Hanan, a 50-year-old former Israeli special forces operative who now works privately using the pseudonym “Jorge”,…
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Nem toda TV Box é ilegal: como a Anatel descobre que a pessoa usa ‘gatonet’
A Anatel (Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações) anunciou ontem (9) um grande plano para combater o uso e a comercialização de TV Box pirata — também conhecido como ‘gatonet’. A agência vai bloquear o sinal de 5 milhões destes aparelhos ilegais em uso no Brasil. Continua aqui.
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JBS pagou US$ 11 milhões em resgate a autores de ataque ransomware
O frigorífico JBS confirmou ao The Wall Street Journal nesta quarta-feira, 9 [de junho de 2021], que pagou 11 milhões de dólares aos hackers que atacaram os sistemas da empresa no Estados Unidos e na Austrália no final de maio. Continua aqui.
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Hackers abuse Google Ads to spread malware in legit software
Malware operators have been increasingly abusing the Google Ads platform to spread malware to unsuspecting users searching for popular software products. Among the products impersonated in these campaigns include Grammarly, MSI Afterburner, Slack, Dashlane, Malwarebytes, Audacity, μTorrent, OBS, Ring, AnyDesk, Libre Office, Teamviewer, Thunderbird, and Brave. The threat actors the clone official websites of the above…
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Racial slurs discovered in leaked Yandex source code
Russian tech giant Yandex apologized on Friday for racial slurs uncovered in the company’s source code. The apology came in response to the discovery of multiple references to the N-word in the company’s code base after it leaked online. “We deeply regret that this word ever appeared in our internal codes,” the Yandex press office…
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FBI Covertly Infiltrated Hive Network, Thwarting Over $130 Million in Ransom Demands
The Justice Department announced today its months-long disruption campaign against the Hive ransomware group that has targeted more than 1,500 victims in over 80 countries around the world, including hospitals, school districts, financial firms, and critical infrastructure. “Since late July 2022, the FBI has penetrated Hive’s computer networks, captured its decryption keys, and offered them…
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New Backdoor Created Using Leaked CIA’s Hive Malware Discovered in the Wild
Da Hacker News: Unidentified threat actors have deployed a new backdoor that borrows its features from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)’s Hive multi-platform malware suite, the source code of which was released by WikiLeaks in November 2017. “This is the first time we caught a variant of the CIA Hive attack kit in the…