Cybercrime, the Silver Terrier groups: who were yesterday and who are today
Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 cybersecurity experts: In 2021 the BEC gangs reduced their activities, but they are still dangerous.
Cybercrime, Italy and Spain dismantle a huge group linked to the Mafia
The operation, coordinated by Europol and Eurojust, led to 106 arrests. The suspects defrauded hundreds of victims through phishing attacks, SIM swapping and BEC.
Cybercrime: here it comes Cosmic Lynx, the BEC ring
Agari cyber security experts: The group targets only senior executives at Fortune 500 or Global 2000 companies. It has stolen million dollars from firms in 46 countries.
Cyber Espionage, Operation In(ter)ception hit aerospace-military companies
ESET cyber security experts: The threat actor, maybe North Korea’s Lazarus, exploited custom malware, fake jobs and social engineering via LinkedIn, to compromise the targets.
Spear phishing remains the principal attack vector for cybercrime
Europol’s EC3 report: It's a threat that affects all industries. Sophisticated campaigns, as BEC, are often perpetrated by organised criminal groups to generate large illicit profits.
Cybercrime, Nigeria’s SilverTerrier gang is growing and evolving
Palo Alto cyber security experts: The group has now over 400 individual actors a targets all industry with BEC schemes, leveraging malware. In particular Information Stealers and RATs.