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Bleeping Computer
Spanish and Ukrainian law enforcement authorities dismantled a criminal ring that exploited war-displaced Ukrainian women to run an online gambling scheme that laundered nearly €4.75 million in illicit proceeds. [...]
Bleeping Computer
New York Attorney General Letitia James sued video game developer and publisher Valve Corporation for using game loot boxes to facilitate illegal gambling activities among children and teenagers. [...]
Graham Cluley
In episode 73 of The AI Fix, AI now writes more web content than humans and more books by ex-British prime ministers than ex-British prime ministers. Mark eats a dodgy prawn, Google discovers a new pathway to treating cancer, a lawyer gets skewered for using AI over and over again, and a US general declares that he's outsourced his brain to ChatGPT. Also in this episode, Graham discovers that LLMs show all the characteristics of pathological gambling, and Mark explains why AI training is like eating a prawn buffet. All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of "The AI Fix" podcast by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.
Dark Reading
New threat actor "GhostRedirector" is using a malicious IIS module to inject links that try to artificially boost search engine ranking for target sites.
Krebs on Security
Last month, KrebsOnSecurity tracked the sudden emergence of hundreds of polished online gaming and wagering websites that lure people with free credits and eventually abscond with any cryptocurrency funds deposited by players. We've since learned that these scam gambling sites have proliferated thanks to a new Russian affiliate program called "Gambler Panel" that bills itself as a "soulless project that is made for profit."
The Hacker News
An ongoing campaign that infiltrates legitimate websites with malicious JavaScript injects to promote Chinese-language gambling platforms has ballooned to compromise approximately 150,000 sites to date. "The threat actor has slightly revamped their interface but is still relying on an iframe injection to display a full-screen overlay in the visitor's browser," c/side security analyst Himanshu
The Hacker News
Threat actors have been observed targeting Internet Information Services (IIS) servers in Asia as part of a search engine optimization (SEO) manipulation campaign designed to install BadIIS malware. "It is likely that the campaign is financially motivated since redirecting users to illegal gambling websites shows that attackers deploy BadIIS for profit," Trend Micro researchers Ted Lee and
The Hacker News
Cybersecurity researchers have exposed a new campaign that targets web servers running PHP-based applications to promote gambling platforms in Indonesia. "Over the past two months, a significant volume of attacks from Python-based bots has been observed, suggesting a coordinated effort to exploit thousands of web apps," Imperva researcher Daniel Johnston said in an analysis. "These attacks
Bleeping Computer
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warns about a significant rise in gambling-like online job scams, known as "task scams," that draw people into earning cash through repetitive tasks, with the promises of earning more if they deposit their own money. [...]
The Hacker News
The prolific Chinese nation-state actor known as APT41 (aka Brass Typhoon, Earth Baku, Wicked Panda, or Winnti) has been attributed to a sophisticated cyber attack targeting the gambling and gaming industry. "Over a period of at least six months, the attackers stealthily gathered valuable information from the targeted company including, but not limited to, network configurations, user passwords,