Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2023

The FBI seized the Genesis Market , a black marketplace for stolen credentials that was launched in 2017. Law enforcement seized the Genesis Market black marketplace, a platform focused on the sale of stolen credentials, as part of Operation Cookie Monster.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 16, 2019

The locations of alleged GozNym cybercrime group members. According to the indictment, the GozNym network exemplified the concept of ‘cybercrime as a service,’ in that the defendants advertised their specialized technical skills and services on underground, Russian-language, online criminal forums. Source: DOJ.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 3, 2023

The “ NotPetya ” attack of 2017 – the most financially damaging cyberattack in history – and the 2018 “ Olympic Destroyer ” attack, which took down the entire technology system of the Winter Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, used wiper malware.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 23, 2022

A new report released by the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) shows that financial losses due to suspected cybercrime continued to rise sharply over the course of 2021, to a total of $6.9 billion in that year alone, with 847,000 complaints lodged by victims. billion, on 301,580 complaints. billion, on 301,580 complaints.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2021

A Latvian woman has been charged for their alleged role in a transnational cybercrime organisation. As touched on above, the group hired experts in a variety of cybercrime fields. The wire transfers listed range from $44,900 to $230,400 across most of 2017 to 2018. What happened this week, you ask? How bad is it really?

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 18, 2023

Did you already grab a copy of my Twitter 2017-2023 Ebook compilation for free? Have you also downloaded my Cybercrime Forum Data Set for 2022 including a free 256GB compilation of all of my publicly accessible research from 2005 up to 2023 for free in the form of a torrent ? Stay tuned!

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2023

Truebot has been active since 2017 and some researchers linked it to the Russian Silence Group , while a recent investigation linked it to threat actor TA505 (aka Evil Corp). .” The researchers noticed that the domain hosting the tools employed in the attack, windowservicecemter[.]com, com, was registered on April 12, 2023.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Having been in the field for so long, we have witnessed some major changes in the cybercrime world’s modus operandi. This report shares our insights into the Russian-speaking cybercrime world and the changes in how it operates that have happened in the past five years. Conclusion: cybersecurity and cybercrime have matured.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

“According to the indictment, between 2011 and July 2017, Aliaksandr Klimenka, 42, allegedly controlled BTC-e, a digital currency exchange, with Alexander Vinnik and others.” BTC-e was popular in the cybercrime ecosystem, it was an illegal platform because it was not registered as a money services business with the U.S.

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Heimadal Security

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Kimsuky, also known as Velvet Chollima, Thallium, or Black Banshee, is a North Korean-based cybercrime group with operations going back to 2017. The North Korean cyberespionage group known as Kimsuky has been observed exploiting three different Android malware targeted specifically at South Korean users.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 9, 2023

A Croatian national has been arrested for allegedly operating NetWire , a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) marketed on cybercrime forums since 2012 as a stealthy way to spy on infected systems and siphon passwords. ’s Companies House shows that in 2017 Mr. Zanko became an officer in a company called Godbex Solutions LTD.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

authorities today announced criminal charges and financial sanctions against two Russian men accused of stealing nearly $17 million worth of virtual currencies in a series of phishing attacks throughout 2017 and 2018 that spoofed websites for some of the most popular cryptocurrency exchanges.

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BH Consulting

JULY 26, 2022

In 2017, we published a guide to dealing with ransomware and updated it in 2020 to reflect how the threat had adapted. For years, we’ve encouraged all victims of cybercrime to report to law enforcement so the agencies can gather intelligence, share information, understand threats better, and develop responses.

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Tech Republic Security

APRIL 27, 2017

According to Verizon's 2017 Data Breach Investigations Report, espionage-related attacks are growing in popularity, with malware and phishing still go-to tools for hackers as well.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 20, 2021

.” Over the course of his 15-year cybercriminal career, Severa would emerge as a pivotal figure in the cybercrime underground , serving as the primary moderator of a spam community that spanned multiple top Russian cybercrime forums. Levashov was arrested in 2017 while in Barcelona, Spain with his family.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Authorities in the United States and United Kingdom today levied financial sanctions against seven men accused of operating “ Trickbot ,” a cybercrime-as-a-service platform based in Russia that has enabled countless ransomware attacks and bank account takeovers since its debut in 2016. companies and government entities.

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2022

WannaCry is a ransomware worm that spread rapidly through across a number of computer networks in May of 2017. What is WannaCry? After infecting a Windows computer, it encrypts files on the PC's hard drive, making them impossible for users to access, then demands a ransom payment in bitcoin in order to decrypt them.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 29, 2023

It was responsible for the 2014 attack against Sony Pictures, the 2016 cyber heist of funds belonging to the central bank of Bangladesh, and the 2017 WannaCry ransomware worm.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

According to Group-IB’s report findings, Asia is one of the most actively attacked regions in the world, the company presented latest cybercrime trends. In 2017-2018 hackers’ interest in cryptocurrency exchanges ramped up. New cybercrime groups are also expected to start operations in Asia and Latin America. Attacks on Crypto.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 17, 2020

One of those offering claimed access over the Exploit forum in 2017 was known as “fxmsp” and is wanted by the FBI “for involvement in several high-profile incidents,” said Mark Arena, chief executive of cybercrime intelligence firm Intel471. Arena informed his company’s clients, which include U.S.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2023

government this week put a $10 million bounty on the head of a Russian man who for the past 18 years operated Try2Check , one of the cybercrime underground’s most trusted services for checking the validity of stolen credit card data. In 2017, U.S. According to cybersecurity firm Constella Intelligence , the address polkas@bk.ru

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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2020

is cybercrime forum. “We can examine your (or not exactly your) PHP code for vulnerabilities and backdoors,” reads his offering on several prominent Russian cybercrime forums. The cybercrime actor “upO” on Exploit[.]in RedBear’s profile on the Russian-language xss[.]is RANSOMWARE DREAMS.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In other cybersecurity news, a cybercrime “conglomerate” named Zirconium has been found responsible for the largest malvertising operation of 2017. The campaigns were so successful – and so sneaky – that they generated 1 billion ad views in 2017.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 9, 2021

Also, this greenhorn criminal clearly had bought into BriansClub’s advertising, which uses my name and likeness in a series of ads that run on all the top cybercrime forums. com was hosted at a company in Moscow with just a handful of other domains phishing popular cybercrime stores, including Jstashbazar[.]com, com, vclub[.]cards,

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2022

A Ukrainian man was sentenced in the US to 5 years in prison for his criminal activity in the cybercrime group FIN7. for high-level hacking activity in the cybercrime group FIN7 (aka Carbanak Group and the Navigator Group). Iarmak is the third member of the FIN7 cybercrime group to be sentenced in the U.S. in May 2020.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

And an official confirmation says that the attack was launched by notorious North Korean Lazarus hacking group that is known for its social engineering attacks such as the Wannacry 2017. Note- Lazarus group aka Guardians of Peace is a Cybercrime group that is being funded by North Korean intelligence- as per US Intelligence.

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Tech Republic Security

APRIL 11, 2017

At the 2017 Midmarket CIO Forum, Brian Hill of Computer Forensic Services explained the biggest cyber threats facing the enterprise, and how CIOs can keep their organization safe.

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Tech Republic Security

JUNE 20, 2017

Trustwave's 2017 Global Security Report examines trends in cybercrime and enterprise security. Here are some top takeaways.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Cybercrime is a big business. Cybersecurity firm Positive Technologies found 88 new IAB sales on dark web marketplaces in the first quarter of 2020, compared to just three in all of 2017. Ransomware is already the fastest-growing type of cybercrime , and IABs make it more accessible to novice criminals.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2024

Alexander Vinnik , a Russian national, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering for his involvement in operating the cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e from 2011 to 2017. In July 2017 law enforcement shut down the virtual currency exchange.

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The State of Security

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Three men have been arrested in Nigeria, suspected of being members of an organised cybercrime gang that has targeted over 500,000 government agencies and private sector companies around the world.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 17, 2019

To alleviate the cash from a whole entire nation…” KrebsOnSecurity has seen some creative yet truly bizarre ads for dodgy services in the cybercrime underground, but the following animated advertisement for a popular credit card fraud shop likely takes the cake. “It takes a certain kind of man with a certain reputation.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The analysis of a malicious email revealed a possible raising interest of the TA505 cybercrime gang in system integrator companies. The domain validtree.com is registered through namecheap.com on 2017-12-07T15:55:27Z but recently renewed on 2019-10-16T05:35:18Z. SecurityAffairs – TA505, cybercrime). Introduction.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

This week on Decoding Security , security analysts Jessica Ortega and Ramuel Gall share their predictions for the top cybercrime trends in 2018. We’ll also catch you up on the latest cybersecurity news, including the 25 Worst Passwords of 2017 and a leaky server that exposed 300,000 email addresses and login credentials from Ancestry.com.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2021

According to cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 , that dark_cl0ud6@hotmail.com address has been used in conjunction with the handle “ DCReavers2 ” to register user accounts on a half-dozen English-language cybercrime forums since 2008, including Hackforums , Blackhatworld, and Ghostmarket.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2024

The activity of the TheMoon botnet was first spotted in 2014, and since 2017 its operators added to the code of the bot at least 6 IoT device exploits. The new version of the bot has been spotted infecting thousands of outdated devices in 88 countries.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Since the beginning of 2020, Babam has set up numerous auctions on the Russian-language cybercrime forum Exploit , mainly selling virtual private networking (VPN) credentials stolen from various companies. In early 2017, Babam confided to another Verified user via private message that he is from Lithuania. com (2017).

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