Chinmay Rautmare

Senior Correspondent

Rautmare is senior correspondent on Information Security Media Group's Global News Desk. He previously worked with Reuters News, as a correspondent for the North America Headline News operations and reported on companies in the technology, media and telecom sectors. Before Reuters he put in a stint in broadcast journalism with a business channel, where he helped produced multimedia content and daily market shows. Rautmare is a keen follower of geo-political news and defense technology in his free time.

Florida Man Gets 3-Year Prison Term for Account Takeover Scam

Chinmay Rautmare • November 21, 2020

A Florida man has been sentenced to 37 months in prison after pleading guilty to a federal laundering money charge stemming from a $9 million business account takeover scheme, according to the Justice Department.

AWS Flaw Allows Attackers to Find Users' Access Codes

Chinmay Rautmare • November 20, 2020

A recently uncovered vulnerability in a class of Amazon Web Service APIs can be exploited to leak AWS identity and access management user and arbitrary accounts, according to Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42.

Microsoft Warns of Office 365 Phishing Attacks

Chinmay Rautmare • November 18, 2020

Microsoft's Security Intelligence team is warning users of the Office 365 suite about an ongoing phishing campaign that appears to be harvesting victims' credentials. The emails use several techniques to bypass and evade secure email gateways.

Gaming Company Confirms Ragnar Locker Ransomware Attack

Chinmay Rautmare • November 18, 2020

Japanese computer game company Capcom acknowledged this week that a November security incident was a Ragnar Locker ransomware attack that resulted in about 350,000 customer and company records, including sales and shareholder data, potentially being compromised.

Report Says House Members Could Securely Vote Remotely

Chinmay Rautmare • November 13, 2020

A House of Representatives staff report concludes that existing technology and infrastructure could be used to allow lawmakers to securely cast their votes remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. But some Republicans question whether remote voting is, indeed, feasible.

IRS Domain Spoofed in Fraud Campaign

Chinmay Rautmare • November 11, 2020

A recently uncovered phishing campaign is using a spoofed U.S. Internal Revenue Service domain and social engineering techniques in an attempt to trick targeted victims into sending money to fraudsters, according to researchers at Abnormal Security.

Former Microsoft Engineer Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison

Chinmay Rautmare • November 10, 2020

A former Microsoft software engineer has been sentenced to nine years in prison after being found guilty on 18 criminal charges in connection with the theft of more than $10 million through the company's online retail platform.

Pay2Key Ransomware Hits Israeli Targets

Chinmay Rautmare • November 9, 2020

Security analysts at Check Point Research are warning about a recently uncovered ransomware strain called Pay2Key that is primarily targeting Israeli firms.

US Election Interference-Themed Spam Spreads Banking Trojan

Chinmay Rautmare • November 5, 2020

Only a few hours after polls closed, fraudsters started using the uncertainty over the winner of the U.S. presidential election to send out spam messages that are designed to infect devices with the Qbot banking Trojan, according to Malwarebytes.

Emotet Attacks Continue to Soar as Botnet Spreads Globally

Chinmay Rautmare • November 4, 2020

The number of attacks related to Emotet continues to spike after the dangerous botnet re-emerged over the summer with a fresh phishing and spam campaign, according to research from HP-Bromium. During this time, Emotet is mainly infecting devices with the QBot or QakBot banking Trojan.

CISA and Oracle Warn Over WebLogic Server Vulnerability

Chinmay Rautmare • November 3, 2020

CISA and Oracle are urging users to apply an emergency patch for a vulnerability in the software giant's WebLogic Server product. This "severe" bug is already under active exploitation and could allow an attacker to run malicious code, security experts say.

Commerce Department Will Continue to Press for TikTok Ban

Chinmay Rautmare • November 2, 2020

After a federal judge blocked an order that would have banned ByteDance-owned TikTok from operating within the U.S., the Commerce Department vowed to continue to defend the Trump administration's executive order. Additional court hearings over the order are scheduled for later this year.

Sizing Up Activities of North Korea's Kimsuky APT Group

Chinmay Rautmare • October 28, 2020

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the FBI have issued an alert providing details on the activities of a North Korean hacking group dubbed Kimsuky. The group, which has primarily focused on South Korean targets, has also conducted espionage campaigns in the U.S. and Japan.

Apps Infected With Adware Found on Google Play Store

Chinmay Rautmare • October 27, 2020

Some 21 malicious Android apps containing intrusive adware were discovered on the Google Play Store, but most have now been removed, according to a new report from the security firm Avast.

Fraudsters Alter Election Phishing Scam

Chinmay Rautmare • October 26, 2020

Fraudsters operating an election-themed phishing campaign have tweaked their malicious landing pages to harvest more information, including banking credentials, account data and vehicle identification information, Proofpoint reports.