A new crime site for hackers is positioning itself as an alternative to Raid Forums, a popular watering hole for threat actors before it was mysteriously taken down in February.
The new site, Breach Forums, was launched by an old Raid Forum hand who goes by the handle “pompompurin,” according to a blog post this week by Flashpoint, a threat intelligence company. In the welcoming thread to the forum, pompompurin stated that the new hacker community was being created as an alternative to Raid Forums.
“If RaidForums does ever return in any official capacity,” pompompurin wrote, “this forum will be closed and this domain will redirect to it.”
New York-based risk management company Exiger this week launched a new supply chain risk monitoring service, designed to incorporate a wide and customizeable array of data sources into its calcluations.
The company’s Supply Chain Explorer is a fully as-a-service offering – users don’t have to host it in their data centers or run it on a dedicated appliance. The idea is to track a company’s supplier network through online digital footprints, shipping data and contract information to provide a close to real-time picture of potential disruptions in the user’s supply chain.
The system works by scanning public data sources, social media, and a host of other datasets for keywords specific to companies that form part of the user’s supply chain. That data is then processed by a proprietary AI, which identifies potential impacts to the supply chain – for example, if a supplier company makes headlines for production defects or some such, the system can flag this to the user so that alternative arrangements can be made.
Two teenagers from the UK have been charged by police over hacking offenses in relation to an international investigation into the LAPSUS$ group. The cybercriminal gang is believed to be behind several recent high-profile cyberattacks including the data breach of internal systems of cloud-based authentication software provider Okta. The news comes after police announced last week that they had arrested seven people between the ages of 16 and 21 around the UK as part of their investigation into LAPSUS$.
Teens charged with multiple cyber offenses
In a statement, Detective Inspector Michael O’Sullivan, City of London Police, said: “The City of London Police has been conducting an investigation into members of a hacking group. Two teenagers, a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old, have been charged in connection with this investigation and remain in police custody.” Both teenagers have been charged with three counts of unauthorized access to a computer with intent to impair the reliability of data, one count of fraud by false representation, and one count of unauthorized access to a computer with intent to hinder access to data, he added. “The 16-year-old has also been charged with one count of causing a computer to perform a function to secure unauthorised access to a program.”
