Gopherware (Gopher malware) is the term given to malware written in the Go (Golang) programming language. As a threat, gopherware has seen a massive surge in adoption by threat actors since early 2019...
Almost a year to the day (30 & 31st June 2024) I posted about Operation Endgame – the operation, spearheaded by the National Crime Agency (NCA) to takedown several high-profile botnets, incl...
In an operation spanning multiple years, and multiple jurisdictions, one of the worlds most wanted cyber criminals has finally been taken to the US to face justice for crimes committed that stretch ba...
This week, the National Crime Agency (NCA) announced the successful takedown of a Crimeware As A Service (CaaS) platform that offered the ability to spoof telephone numbers which was used by criminals...
Security researchers working for Volexity have discovered a novel malware which uses Emojis sent via a custom Discord server that has the ability to control compromised Linux distributions. Volexity s...
In the fast moving world of cyber crime, updates often come thick and fast – Operation Endgame seems to be one of those times. Since my original post yesterday, some of the law enforcement agenc...
This week has seen the launch of a new approach to tackling cyber crime from law enforcement agencies across the globe. Operation Endgame is the name given to a series of ongoing actions to close down...
Friday (24th May 2024) saw the online posting of the Ring video doorbell footage of the arrest of Conor Brian Fitzpatrick (A.K.A. Pompompurin) – The administrator of the online data-leak forum &...
At 14:00 UTC today (7th May 2024) – Law enforcement officers working for the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) and partners in the US and Europe, released updates about the LockBit ransomwa...
Ahead of the release of new data regarding LockBit – it looks like they have been pretty busy releasing details of new victims. In the last 24 hours, Lockbit have posted details of almost 60 new...