Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

200+ C2 servers linked to StealC and Amadey shut down

'Thousands' of US victims, including 12+ machines owned and operated by Redmond

PLUS: Ransomware gang using tech support scam; Czechia accuses China of infrastructure attack; And more! Infosec In Brief Despite last week’s FBI announcement that it helped to take down the crew behind the Lumma infostealer, the malware continues to operate.…

And the associated fraud'n'spy botnet is about to be shut down The US Department of Justice has unsealed indictments against 16 people accused of spreading and using the DanaBot remote-control malware that infected more than 300,000 computers, plus operating a botnet of the same name, and appears set to shutter its operations.…

Credit card theft losses in 2023 alone totaled $36.5M International cops working with Microsoft have shut down infrastructure and seized web domains used to run a distribution service for info-stealing malware Lumma. Criminals paid $250 to $1,000 a month to get access to the infostealer.…

You don't need us to craft phishing emails or write malware, super-lab sniffs OpenAI has shut down five accounts it asserts were used by government agents to generate phishing emails and malicious software scripts as well as research ways to evade malware detection.…

Who would have thought crims would try using Facebook to fool people? Meta says it has shut down over 1,000 links related to ChatGPT that lead its users to malware, as criminals seek to profit from the current craze for generative AI.…

Hands off those Chrome users, they're ours! Google said it obtained a court order to shut down domains used to distribute CryptBot after suing the distributors of the info-stealing malware.…

Managed software provider Advanced admits some customer data 'exfiltrated' in August ransomware attack Advanced, a managed software provider to the UK National Health Service, has confirmed that customer data was indeed lifted as part of the attack by cyber baddies that has disrupted operations for months.…

Botnet infrastructure shut down last year, now central to a fast-spreading email scam, researchers say More than a year after essentially being shut down, the notorious Emotet malware operation is showing a strong resurgence.…

Control systems scrubbed, hijacked network devices need to be patched and cleaned The US Justice Department today revealed details of a court-authorized take-down of command-and-control systems the Sandworm cyber-crime ring used to direct network devices infected by its Cyclops Blink malware.…