Monitoring of underground forums revealed that cybercriminals are eager to weaponize both new and old vulnerabilities. McAfee speculated that Olympus’ disappearance might have been spurred by an exit scheme initiated by its administrators to steal money from their own vendors and customers.Īnother trend during the quarter observed by McAfee was several individual sellers moving away from large markets and opening specific marketplaces to building trusted relationships with customers.
“Fallout almost certainly had a bearing on the spread of GandCrab, the leading ransomware,” commented McAfee chief scientist Raj Samani.įive years ago after McAfee published the report “Cybercrime Exposed,” which detailed the rise of cybercrime as a service, exploit kits today afford anyone the opportunity to easily and cheaply enter the digital crime business, Samani added.ĭisappearing during 3Q was Olympus Market, a dark web marketplace that quickly emerged as a popular hacker destination in the wake of the takedown of the Hansa and AlphaBay markets. A continued rise in cryptojacking and growth in coin-miner malware returned to unprecedented levels after a temporary slowdown in the second quarter of 2018 highlight the trends in McAfee Advanced Threat Research’s December report.Īnalyzing threats that emerged in the third quarter, the report cited two new exploit kits: Fallout and Underminer.
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