@BushidoToken Threat Intel

  Images made with Bing Create AI Prologue I find uncovering new campaigns and sharing research on novel threats is one the most enjoyable parts of my job as a CTI researcher. Especially the types of threats not many other researchers really spend much time investigating, or at least those who do rarely disclose their findings publicly. My investigation on the RedZei group is also an example of this. Background I have recently been investigating a financially motivated threat actor I've dubbed "GreenMwizi" that I believe to be from Kenya. They have setup a dozen fake Booking.com Twitter accounts and are currently targeting users who make public complaints. The main aim of these scammers is to socially engineer users over the phone into sending them funds via  Remitly, an  international money transfer service.  By interacting with the scammers myself I was able to find out their phone number and trace their IP address and device information. This type of activity is ...

  Cryptocurrency is experiencing a huge boom. With this explosion in popularity, and people getting rich quick, come the cybercriminals looking to exploit this new technology. Unfortunately, while there may be a large amount of money to be made from cryptocurrecny there are very little controls or regulations preventing scams. Unlike other centralised financial services, such as banks, cryptocurrency users are only as protected as their own personal operational security (OPSEC). While there are long guides on OPSEC for cryptocurrency users, many new users are lacking here and do not use a strong password or two-factor authentication (2FA). This makes them sitting ducks for cybercriminals. This blog will detail how users of a relatively new platform, PancakeSwap, are being highly targeted.  In their own words "PancakeSwap is the leading decentralized exchange on Binance Smart Chain, with the highest trading volumes in the market". Despite its comical name, PancakeSwap is ...