Tesseract Intelligence is a group of highly experienced, multicultural threat intelligence professionals. We’ve all grown behind the keyboards and have been tracking cyber criminals for decades. It is crucial to stay agile, adapt and follow cyber criminals wherever they decide to migrate their operation and communication to. We also believe it is impossible to know everything and cover every place in the cyber underground, that is why we are open for any joint investigations and cooperation, in general.
Hackers strike again, compromising sensitive information from one of Russia’s oil and gas moguls, Gazprom. Gazprom is a Russian majority state-owned multinational energy corporation headquartered in the Lakhta Center in Saint Petersburg. One of the largest IT channels supporting Ukraine’s protection shared its first post: Shown above, is a list of targets to be attacked…
A well-known center for research in Iraq, Al-Sibt Specialized Center for Research and Scientific Publishing had sensitive information leaked. The center prides itself on credible, scientific publications, working with elite academics, top researchers, and well-known scientists. The following leak was found on a marketplace in Telegram with around 3 thousand subscribers. It was detected on…
The following information found for this story is from a Telegram channel, emphasizing hacked databases targeting government institutions, and their undercurrent theme supports far-left ideas and protests. Breach channels such as these can add fire to a politicized movement and provide people with the freedom of information using the tool they know best – hacking.…
A well-known online store in Russia, Elex.ru supplies clients with a myriad of products, everything from electronics to household appliances. The store delivers only within Russia and is accepting payments by card, although it is a Pay on Delivery (POD). The company was founded in 1993. To date, there are 30 physical stores as well…
Bs.Intertechs Company Limited is a professional engineering service company. Established in early 2009, they provide professional engineering services and have experienced rapid growth in their industry ever since. Bs.Intertechs Company Limited has many users, spanning from industrial companies, end-users, and thousands of clients. On February 16th a Telegram channel with over 2800 subscribers allegedly leaked…
On the 16th of January, the known hacker pompompurin published the following data. As the hacker himself mentioned, he has a history with the company which could be seen in his older posts. Who is pompompurin? Pompompurin is an actively posting and commenting hacker in one of the bigger underground forums. Also recently known for…
Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Limited (ABFRL) previously known as Pantaloons Fashion is an Indian fashion company. Having over 3000 stores. ABFRL holds online and offline rights to the India network of California-based fast fashion brand Forever 21. Its International Brands portfolio includes The Collective and select mono-brands such as Simon Carter, Hackett London, Ted…
Part 2 Past and recent big forums. Underground forums and marketplaces are not constant. New forums are showing up, meanwhile, existing ones are being hacked, seized, or simply shutting down. When a forum has a large number of active users and has been around for a long time, it becomes more popular. Over time some…
Part 1 Forums in general The forums in the dark web allow users to be anonymous while freely discussing diverse topics including drugs, illegal goods, and services, data leaks, hacking, child pornography, extremism, etc. Some forums are accessible without registration and the actual contributors are being more protective over their own identity, which makes tracking…
The online dependency during the lockdowns increased the attack surface of many companies which led to more cyber attacks on major corporations, infrastructures and governments. Since the beginning of the pandemic, most employees have been working remotely which weakens the level of protection in the controlled working environment. Organizations had limited time leading to them…
We have developed threat intelligence solutions to keep track of everything happening in the regular, deep and dark web and in particular chat platforms such as Telegram. Telegram’s user base is growing rapidly at 40% each year since 2013 ( for details click here ).There is a trend of increasing migration of various cyber criminal groups, en masse, away from cyber crime forums and into chat platforms with different level of anonymity and security features. Don’t allow such blind spots to open up for your cyber threats visibility.
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