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FBI and CISA: APT Groups Targeting Government Agencies
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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the FBI warn that unidentified nation-state actors are scanning for three vulnerabilities in Fortinet s operating system, FortiOS, to likely target government and private sector companies for cyberespionage.
In a joint alert released on Friday, the agencies note nation-state actors are scanning for FortiOS vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2018-13379, CVE-2020-12812, CVE-2019-5591 for initial attacks.
The alert does not disclose details of the threat actors, but says the agencies have detected a surge in scanning activities for the vulnerabilities since March. The agencies say the attackers could use the vulnerabilities to gain access to the networks of government or private entities.
State of the dark web: Insights from the underground
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Lately, dark web actors have one more worry: getting caught by law enforcement. Tracking dark web illegal activities has been a cat-and-mouse game for authorities, but in the end, they often catch their adversaries and seize the dodgy money.
On the night of the 2020 presidential election, for example, US government officials managed to empty out a $1 billion Bitcoin wallet recovering funds linked to Silk Road, seven years after the market’s closure. Silk Road was a popular underground marketplace dealing in illegal goods and services such as narcotics, hacking for hire, and contract killing.
Cybercriminal group closure and exit scams
Events like these have compelled cybercriminals to plot new strategies, which sometimes involves closing shop and cashing out before they get on the feds’ radar. In October 2020, the Maze ransomware group, which has breached hundreds of companies including Xerox, LG, and Canon, shut itself down over a six-week period stating they had retired their activities. However, experts have suggested this is likely a façade. Ransomware operators often shut one operation down to join another rather than exit the business completely.
“In recent years, the dark net has dramatically changed, quite organically, due to increased organized criminal organizations’ use of anonymous forums and marketplaces, the increased presence of young YouTube inspired criminal wannabes, and naturally, the subsequent increased presence of law enforcement and their attempts to infiltrate, de-anonymize, and take down such groups and hidden services,” says Mark
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