On January 28, 2021 the dark web community was informed that “ValidCC”, one of the leading marketplaces for compromised payment card details, was unexpectedly closing its services for good. This happened less than a month after “Joker’s Stash”, another popular dark web payment card marketplace, announced its retirement.

Believed active since 2004, if not much earlier, Turla is a high sophistication Russian-nexus threat group with espionage and intelligence gathering motivations targeting organizations worldwide. We have wrote about them in the past here. Known by many security vendor assigned names over the years including Turla Team, Uroburos and Venomous Bear, this bulletin provides an overview of Turla-attributed threats as observed over the past six months.

Babuk, also known as 'Babuk Locker', 'Babyk' and initially 'Vasa Locker', is a ransomware threat utilizing big-game hunter tactics to 'steal, encrypt and leak' victim data in an attempt to extort payments of reportedly up to USD 85,000 in Bitcoin (BTC).

“Joker’s Stash”, the largest dark web marketplace for buying & selling stolen payment card data, announced on January 15, 2021 that it is shutting down. The last day of activity will be February 15, 2021.

Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is a communication protocol developed by Microsoft, which provides a user with a graphical interface to connect to another computer over a network connection[1]. Once connected, the remote user will be able to communicate with the machine using their input devices, keyboard and mouse, and to have their screen displaying the output of their actions – as if they were physically connected. Simply put, gaining access to your crown jewels.

Identified as targeting cryptocurrency users through nefarious cross-platform applications, a remote access trojan (RAT) dubbed 'ElectroRAT' has recently been in the headlines following an investigation into the threat by researchers at Intezer.

In the aftermath of the notorious SolarWinds breach, occurring in mid-December 2020, a nefarious website was observed on 12 January 2021 and, presumably linked to the threat actors involved in the original supply chain attacks, purports to offer stolen data from four victim companies for sale: Other than the above, no file listings, screenshots or detailed 'proof' have been provided although links to four encrypted archive files, one for each potential victim organization, were uploaded to the popular