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Forums are online discussion spaces where users post questions, answers, files, and messages organized by topic. In security, the term can describe legitimate professional communities, technical support boards, and underground marketplaces or criminal discussion sites. Their content may include vulnerability research, configuration advice, leaked credentials, stolen data, exploit code, or offers of illicit services.
Forums are relevant to security because posts and attachments can expose users to phishing, malware, malicious links, or accidental disclosure of sensitive information. Poor authentication, access control, moderation, or logging can also make a forum itself an attack surface. Defenders may monitor relevant public and restricted forums as a source of threat intelligence, while treating unverified claims and downloaded material as potentially hostile. Security teams should validate vulnerability reports, avoid interacting with criminal infrastructure unnecessarily, preserve material lawfully for investigation, and account for privacy and legal constraints when collecting forum data.
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Researchers suggest defenders monitor how these malicious groups re-form and leverage the useful threat intel to guide their next moves.
Cybersecurity professionals in Latin America are least likely to have faith in their countries' preparedness for cyberattacks on critical infrastructure, the World Economic Forum says.
Massive data dump reveals real identities and details of administrators and members of the notorious hacker forum.
The new lightweight stealer, distributed via underground forums and cracked software, demonstrates an important evolution in the stealth of commodity infostealing malware.
The arrest of a suspected administrator for the popular cybercrime forum was one of several enforcement actions in the past week targeting malicious activity.
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.
A threat actor has claimed responsibility for the alleged politically motivated attack and has uploaded the stolen data to a Dark Web forum.
Threat actors are trolling online forums and spreading malicious apps to target Uyghurs, Taiwanese, Tibetans, and other individuals aligned with interests that China sees as a threat to its authority.
A global report published by the World Economic Forum points to a new "world order characterized by greater instability, polarizing narratives, eroding trust, and insecurity.
The "Cracked" and "Nulled" Dark Web sites are now offline, along with the Pakistani "Saim Raza" network of underground forums (aka HeartSender).
Marketed on a cybercriminal forum, the $700 tool harvests email addresses from public GitHub profiles, priming cyberattackers for further credential theft, malware delivery, OAuth subversion, supply chain attacks, and other corporate breaches.
In the latest attack against ISPs, second-largest French provider Free fell victim to unknown cyberattackers who attempted to sell the compromised data it stole from the company on an underground cybercrime forum.
The ShinyHunters attackers are skipping selling stolen data on hacker forums in favor of using deadline-driven ransom notes for financial gain.
An exploit sold on an underground forum requires user action to download an unspecified malicious payload.
The passwords, dumped on a cyber-underground forum on July 4 by a hacker called "ObamaCare," were collected from a variety of older and more recent breaches.
The two allegedly sold the Trojan on Hack Forums, allowing other threat actors to gain unauthorized control, disable programs, browse files, record keystrokes, and steal credentials.
SaaS vendor to blame for exposing employee data that was ultimately leaked on Dark Web forum, according to the home improvement retailer.
By code or by command, cybercriminals are circumventing ethical and safety restrictions to use generative AI chatbots in the way that they want.
Researchers found that many Dark Web forums have stronger password rules than most government and military entities.
A prolific threat actor has been operating on Russian-language forums since 2020, but then he accidentally infected his own computer and sold off its contents to threat researchers.