Digital Shadows Research: Cybercriminals Profiting from COVID-19 Charities
New Digital Shadows research takes a look at how cybercriminals may be profiting from COVID-19 charities.
The Digital Shadows Photon Research Team revealed that in late March, a user on the prestigious Russian-language cybercriminal forum XSS initiated an English-language thread to share free credentials for accounts with preloaded funds for the automated vending cart (AVC) sites Joker's Stash and UniCC. In exchange, the user requested voluntary donations "to help COVID-19 patients and medical staff in Italy and Spain." The user provided a Bitcoin wallet address to receive donations. Later that same day, the user updated their post to report that the accounts were no longer working, as an unknown forum user must have changed the passwords without leaving a donation.