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Four FIN9 hackers indicted for cyberattacks causing $71M in losses

Four Vietnamese nationals linked to the international cybercrime group FIN9 have been indicted for their involvement in a series of computer intrusions that caused over $71 million in losses to companies in the U.S.
- Bill Toulas
- June 24, 2024
- 01:35 PM
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Facebook Messenger phishing wave targets 100K business accounts per week

Hackers use a massive network of fake and compromised Facebook accounts to send out millions of Messenger phishing messages to target Facebook business accounts with password-stealing malware.
- Bill Toulas
- September 11, 2023
- 11:01 AM
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Android malware infected 300,000 devices to steal Facebook accounts

An Android malware campaign masquerading as reading and education apps has been underway since 2018, attempting to steal Facebook account credentials from infected devices.
- Bill Toulas
- December 01, 2022
- 03:52 PM
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OceanLotus hackers turn to web archive files to deploy backdoors

The OceanLotus group of state-sponsored hackers are now using the web archive file format (.MHT and .MHTML) to deploy backdoors to compromised systems.
- Bill Toulas
- January 12, 2022
- 10:20 AM
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Fintech firm hit by Log4j hack refuses to pay $5 million ransom

One of the largest Vietnamese crypto trading platforms, ONUS, recently suffered a cyber attack on its payment system running a vulnerable Log4j version. Soon enough, threat actors approached ONUS to extort $5 million and threatened to publish customer data should ONUS refuse to comply.
- Ax Sharma
- December 29, 2021
- 07:07 AM
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XE Group exposed for eight years of hacking, credit card theft

A relatively unknown group of Vietnamese hackers calling themselves 'XE Group' has been linked to eight years of for-profit hacking and credit card skimming.
- Bill Toulas
- December 08, 2021
- 10:12 AM
- 0
APT32 state hackers target human rights defenders with spyware

Vietnam-backed hacking group APT32 has coordinated several spyware attacks targeting Vietnamese human rights defenders (HRDs) between February 2018 and November 2020.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- February 23, 2021
- 08:00 PM
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Facebook unmasks Vietnam’s APT32 hacking group

The Facebook security team has revealed today the real identity of APT32, a Vietnam-backed hacking group active in cyberespionage campaigns targeting foreign government, multi-national corporations, and journalists since at least 2014.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- December 11, 2020
- 10:06 AM
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