Cybercriminals work together to drive greater profits

Cybercrime is getting more organized than ever, as threat actors increase collaboration and adapt methods to drive greater monetization, selling access to breached systems to organized criminal groups and ransomware gangs. The latest HP Wolf Security Threat Insights Report, reveals a 65 percent rise in the use of hacking tools downloaded from underground forums and file sharing websites between the second half of 2020 and the first half of 2021. Many tools in circulation are surprisingly capable too, with one using computer vision techniques to bypass CAPTCHA challenges and perform credential stuffing attacks against websites. "The cybercrime ecosystem continues to… [Continue Reading]