On April 20 I discovered a 0-day was being sold on a private Russian Cybercriminals forum. The 0-day, according to the actor selling it, was affecting all versions of Fortimail, granting the user ROOT access to any Fortimail server[1]: Of course, realizing the potential maliciousness of this exploit I…

by Under The Breach and Databreaches.net A recent report by Comparitech and Bob Diachenko concerning an exposed elasticsearch server with data scraped from a forked Telegram app was one of numerous leak reports during March. …

On February 26, Under the Breach discovered that an Actor dumped the databases of 16 websites that left public S3 AWS buckets exposed to the internet, one of these sites is www.bgr.in, a huge Indian tech news site: We downloaded the database and discovered it is a MySql backup of…

Back in August 2019 Avast anti-virus released a technical write-up about a malicious worm named “Retadup” that infected a total of 850,000 computers, mainly in South America[1] The researchers from Avast were able to locate the C&C server, hack it on behalf of the French National Gendarmerie, and drain the…

This write-up will be a little shorter, it is just an anecdotal evidence that sometimes things in Cybercrime aren’t as they seem to be, often a lot more sinister. Earlier this week I noticed an actor was trying to sell access to three of the largest mobile companies in Iraq: …

The era of big data is upon us and it doesn’t seem like it is going away. This is evident in governments buying location data[1] : Large firms looking to capitalize on your information[2]:

So how did a group of individuals get their hands on 230,000 computers worldwide in the first place? Well we first have to understand how a mass virus spreading campaign works (if you’re already familiar with that, you can skip ahead). Granted, there are many ways one can use to…

In recent months we’ve seen a spike in companies having their servers breached and files encrypted. in order for the company to decrypt the files, hackers are demanding a payment, typically in Cryptocurrencies, for which in return they will give the key to open the files. A specific highly talented…