Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2019

According to a report published by cyber security firm Sixgill data for over 23 million payment card were on offer in underground forums in the first half of 2019. . A report published by cybersecurity firm Sixgill revealed that data for over 23 million payment card were offered for sale in the cybercrime underground.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2023

Bad news for T-Mobile, the company disclosed a new data breach that resulted in the theft of data belonging to 37 customer accounts. T-Mobile suffered a new data breach, threat actor stole the personal information of 37 million current postpaid and prepaid customer accounts.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced sanctions against several organizations over email account hacking. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced sanctions against eight entities belonging to three companies over email account hacking due to cybersecurity failures. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Microsoft’s December 2019 Patch Tuesday updates fix a total of 36 flaws, including CVE-2019-1458 Windows zero-day exploited in North Korea-linked attacks. Microsoft’s December 2019 Patch Tuesday updates address a total of 36 flaws, including a Windows zero-day, tracked as CVE-2019-1458 exploited in attacks linked to North Korea.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2019

The CVE-2019-1132 flaw addressed by Microsoft this month was exploited by Buhtrap threat actor to target a government organization in Eastern Europe. Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for July 2019 address a total of 77 vulnerabilities, including two privilege escalation flaws actively exploited in the wild. 86 billion RUB ($27.4M

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

On October 2022, Swiss police arrested Penchukov in Geneva, also known as Tank, which is one of the leaders of the JabberZeus cybercrime group. In 2012, the Ukrainian national Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov was accused of being a member of a cybercrime gang known as JabberZeus crew.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2020

European authorities dismantled two cybercrime organizations responsible for stealing millions through SIM hijacking. European authorities managed to dismantle the operations of two cybercrime gangs responsible for stealing millions through SIM hijacking. The authorities arrested tens of individuals in Spain and Romania. .

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2021

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center has released its annual report, the 2020 Internet Crime Report , which includes data from 791,790 complaints of suspected cybercrimes. billion and authorities observed an increase of more than 300,000 complaints from 2019 (+69%). million in 2019 to over $29.1 billion in losses.

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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). The man was arrested in Bangkok, Thailand in November 2019 at the request of U.S. in May 2020.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

The man was arrested in September 2019 while traveling to the U. “From approximately November 2014 to September 2019, AZARI engaged in an extensive spearphishing campaign that targeted individuals and companies in the U. and around worldwide. from abroad. According to DoJ, the Israeli man netted over $4.8 and around the globe.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The man was held in the Netherlands, and he was charged for his alleged role in the international cybercrime operation known as Raccoon Infostealer. The Raccoon stealer was first spotted in April 2019, it was designed to steal victims’ credit card data, email credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, and other sensitive data.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2021

Last week, French authorities have seized the dark web marketplace Le Monde Parallèle, it is another success of national police in the fight against cybercrime. French authorities seized the dark web marketplace Le Monde Parallèle, the operation is another success of national police in the fight against cybercrime activity in the dark web.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2020

Ukrainian authorities arrested the members of a cybercrime gang who ran 20 cryptocurrency exchanges involved in money laundering. Police in Ukraine announced the arrest of the members of a cybercrime gang composed of three individuals who ran 20 cryptocurrency exchanges used in money laundering activities.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The scripts developed by the cyber criminal were used to parse log data collected from botnet and searched for personally identifiable information (PII) and account credentials. In some cases, the man manually chacked the stolen information. Brovko was involved in the illegal practice between 2007 and 2019.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2023

CryptBot malware is active since at least 2019, it allows operators to steal sensitive data from the Google Chrome of the infected systems. The malware allows operators to steal login credentials from popular services such as social media platforms and cryptocurrency wallets, then stolen data is sold on cybercrime forums by the operators.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Researchers discovered a previously undocumented software control panel, named TeslaGun, used by a cybercrime gang known as TA505. Researchers from cybersecurity firm PRODAFT have discovered a previously undocumented software control panel, tracked as TeslaGun, used by a cybercrime group known as TA505. ” concludes the report.

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JULY 18, 2023

In 2019, a Canadian company called Defiant Tech Inc. LeakedSource was advertised on a number of popular cybercrime forums as a service that could help hackers break into valuable or high-profile accounts. us , a site unabashedly dedicated to helping people hack email and online gaming accounts. Abusewith[.]us

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Once hijacked a SIM, the attacker can steal money, cryptocurrencies and personal information, including contacts synced with online accounts. The criminals could hijack social media accounts and bypass 2FA services based on SMS used by online services, including financial ones. ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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APRIL 10, 2024

The company speculates that leaked data are from 2019 or earlier. “The information varied by individual and account, but may have included full name, email address, mailing address, phone number, social security number, date of birth, AT&T account number and AT&T passcode.” AT&T told CNN.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

This operation follows the takedown in May of last year of Wall Street Market that took place in May 2019. The Wall Street Market marketplace was considered one of the most important points of aggregation in the cybercrime underground for trading in cocaine, heroin, cannabis and amphetamines as well as digital goods (i.e.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2022

The seizure of the Hydra Market is the result of an international investigation conducted by the Central Office for Combating Cybercrime (ZIT) in partnership with U.S. The German authorities reported that around 17 million customers and over 19,000 seller accounts were registered on the Hydra Market. “Today, the U.S.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2021

One of the attacks, against a software developer, took place in 2019. The German police discovered Nikolay’s email address, which was also used to register to over 60 websites, along with his phone number that is associated with a Telegram account. That comes from a database of the IT security company Domaintools.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Once hijacked a SIM, the attackers can steal money, cryptocurrencies and personal information, including contacts synced with online accounts. The criminals could hijack social media accounts and bypass 2FA services based on SMS used by online services, including financial ones. . You send $1,000, I send you back $2,000.”.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2021

In that case, take into account a conviction, criminal record and the loss of your computer and/or laptop.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime). The post Dutch police warn customers of a popular DDoS booter service appeared first on Security Affairs. If new similar facts arise in the future, we will prosecute.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Compromised data include names, addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, bank account numbers, credit cards, passwords, license plates, citizen service numbers or passport data. “You don’t just get access to information at DIVD, so he played it very cleverly,” the anonymous source told NOS.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

million of its managed WordPress customer accounts. Threat actors compromised the company network since at least September 6, 2021, but the security breach was only discovered by the company on November 17. ” said Demetrius Comes, GoDaddy’s Chief Information Security Officer. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2023

The Monopoly Market was launched in 2019 and the German authorities seized the marketplace’s infrastructure in December 2021. “A number of investigations to identify additional individuals behind dark web accounts are still ongoing. ” continues the press release. law enforcement authorities since August 2021.

Marketing 76

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2021

He has been in custody since 2019, when he was arrested in California. Koshkin was arrested in California in September 2019 , while Tsurkan was arrested in April 2017. The Kelihos botnet was used to send out a large volume of spam messages, conduct denial of service attacks, harvest account credentials, and distribute malware.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2021

T-Mobile has suffered another security breach, threat actors gained access to the accounts of “a small number of” customers.’. According to The T-Mo Report , which viewed T-Mobile internal documents, there was “unauthorized activity” on some customer accounts. “Affected customers fall into one of three categories. .”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2020

While we do not store credit card information on our website, it appears that the unauthorized person gained access to the website and could have accessed the data of consumers who made payment card purchases while that data was being entered, between August 3, 2019 and January 14, 2020.” SecurityAffairs – TrueFire, cybercrime).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Going deeper into the analysis, we can notice that the Conti operations accounted for the biggest revenue in 2021, extorting at least $180 million from victims. Experts speculate the operators are members of a Russia-based cybercrime group known as Wizard Spider. and international organizations. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2019

On July 23, 2018, the man sent a spear phishing message from a fraudulent Dell email account to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and instructed its personnel into making the payment for Dell equipment to a bank account under the control of Raage. to the man’s account. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2023

According to OFAC, Tornado Cash was used to launder more than $7 billion worth of virtual currency since its creation in 2019. Those charged today engaged in a conspiracy to launder money for cybercriminals, including for a North Korean cybercrime organization seeking to evade sanctions.” ” FBI Director Christopher A.

Cryptocurrency 78

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2022

In January 2018, Truglia participated in a fraudulent scheme to hack into online accounts of the victims to steal cryptocurrency. The man gained unauthorized access to the online accounts of the victims through SIM swapping attacks. In May 2019, Terpin won $75.8 million had been stolen from his mobile phone in 2018.

Cryptocurrency 84

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Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2019

Million accounts back in April 2018. The security breach occurred in April 2018 and exposed account information for approximately 1.1 The notice issued by the service Have I Been Pwned states that 1,131,229 accounts from Emuparadise forums were exposed in an incident occurred in April 2018.

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2020

The man was arrested in March 2019 and detained after his arrival from Ukraine. “In March 2019, Antonenko was arrested and detained on money laundering charges at New York’s John F. . “In March 2019, Antonenko was arrested and detained on money laundering charges at New York’s John F. ” continues the DoJ.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2020

American citizens lost over $6,000,000 due to these individuals’ BEC fraud schemes, in which they impersonated business executives and requested and received wire transfers from legitimate business accounts.” “Ogunshakin provided Uzuh and other co-conspirators with bank accounts that were used to receive fraudulent wire transfers.

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