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“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

With many financially-motivated threat actors targeting cryptocurrency, it comes as no surprise that users of 'Stellar', an opensource blockchain payment network, have recently been targeted in a somewhat convincing attack in an attempt to steal their holdings of Lumen (XLM), an 'altcoin' cryptocurrency.