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Hackers: This is the data they are looking for most
Hackers: This is the data they are looking for most

A new report on hackers shows what the thriving black market for stolen data is promoting as top offers: Cryptocurrencies are particularly popular with criminals, as well as data from web browsers such as credit card numbers and access data, which were mostly stolen via infostealers. Trend Micro researchers compared the 16 most active infostealer malware variants (malware used to steal data) on two darknet marketplaces (Russian Market and 2easy.shop) and created a risk matrix. The study shows how vulnerable data stolen by hackers is once it falls into the hands of other cybercriminals. At…

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Darknet: 100.000 hacked ChatGPT accounts sold 
Darknet: 100.000 hacked ChatGPT accounts sold

Over 100.000 ChatGPT accounts were hacked and sold on dark web marketplaces in a year. This gives cybercriminals the opportunity to use the AI ​​for their purposes and at the same time steal the data stored in the chat history - sometimes very sensitive company secrets. Group-IB experts have identified 101.134 info-stealers-infected devices with stored ChatGPT credentials. Group-IB's threat intelligence platform found these compromised credentials in the logs of information-stealing malware traded on illegal dark web marketplaces over the past year. The number of available logs with compromised ChatGPT accounts reached in May 2023…

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