Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 15, 2019

“ BriansClub ,” one of the largest underground stores for buying stolen credit card data, has itself been hacked. Imitating my site, likeness and namesake, BriansClub even dubiously claims a copyright with a reference at the bottom of each page: “© 2019 Crabs on Security.” million card records for sale.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Dear readers, I decided to create a simple Infographic that shows Cybercrime facts in 2019, I’ve done it for Safer Internet Day 2020. SecurityAffairs – cybercrime, hacking). The post Safer internet day – Cybercrime facts Infographic appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 25, 2021

I've decided to make my Cybercrime Forum Data Set for 2019 and 2021 exclusively available online for free in order for me to speed the dissemination process and to possibly empower security researchers and vendors with the necessary information to help them stay on the top of their game in terms of current and emerging cyber threats including U.S

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 14, 2023

men have been charged with hacking into a U.S. The complaint doesn’t specify which agency portal was hacked, but it does state that the portal included access to law enforcement databases that track narcotics seizures in the United States. federal government portal without authorization. ” Image: USDOJ.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2024

A 26-year-old Finnish man was sentenced to more than six years in prison today after being convicted of hacking into an online psychotherapy clinic, leaking tens of thousands of patient therapy records, and attempting to extort the clinic and patients. After being charged with the attack in October 2022, Kivimäki fled the country.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 15, 2020

FireEye didn’t explicitly say its own intrusion was the result of the SolarWinds hack, but the company confirmed as much to KrebsOnSecurity earlier today. 13, news broke that the SolarWinds hack resulted in attackers reading the email communications at the U.S. Also on Dec. Treasury and Commerce departments.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Black Basta ransomware gang claims the hack of the car maker Hyundai Motor Europe and the theft of three terabytes of their data. In December 2019, German media reported that hackers suspected to be members of the Vietnam-linked APT Ocean Lotus ( APT32 ) group breached the networks of the car manufacturers BMW and Hyundai.

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SecureBlitz

JANUARY 31, 2024

While several years have passed since the infamous 2019 BriansClub hack, its impact on the cybersecurity landscape continues to ripple. Let's […] The post BriansClub Hack Rescue 26 Million Stolen Credit Cards From Hackers appeared first on SecureBlitz Cybersecurity.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The FBI’s Internal Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released the FBI 2019 Internet Crime Report , a document that outlines cybercrime trends over the past year. Here we are to analyze the annual FBI 2019 Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) , one of the most interesting documents on the crime trends observed in the last 12 months.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.] In 2019, a Canadian company called Defiant Tech Inc. In a legal settlement that is quintessentially Canadian, the matter was resolved in 2019 after Defiant Tech agreed to plead guilty.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Justice Department this month offered a $5 million bounty for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a Russian man indicted for allegedly orchestrating a vast, international cybercrime network that called itself “ Evil Corp ” and stole roughly $100 million from businesses and consumers. LOW FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

We can learn a lot from the cybercrime of the past…the history of cybercrime is a glimpse into what we can expect in the future. In the past 18 months, we’ve experienced the beginning of an era that has seen cybersecurity and cybercrime at the center of it all. Dateline Cybercrime . Robert Herjavec.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

“Emotet’s return is not coincidental, it is caused by major shifts in the overall cybercrime domain. This has been proven by the alliance of TrickBot , Emotet , and Ryuk : the three major players of the pre-2019 cybercrime hierarchy. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Emotet). ” concludes the analysis.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 7, 2021

The simple truth is that no cybersecurity company can compete with the data stacks of the FAAMG behemoths, which is why cybercrime is seeing a 63 percent boost over the past year. Cybercrime. So why aren’t cybersecurity companies, the mitigators of cybercrime, doing the same? Cybersecurity insecurities.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2024

Researchers from cybersecurity firm KELA reported that a threat actor announced on a cybercrime forum the sale of the source code and a cracked version of the Zeppelin ransomware builder for $500. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, ransomware)

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2021

UNC2465 cybercrime group that is affiliated with the Darkside ransomware gang has infected with malware the website of a CCTV camera vendor. ” The SMOKEDHAM backdoor was associated by FireEye to the activity of the UNC2465 group that dates back to at least April 2019 and is considered a DARKSIDE RaaS affiliate.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 15, 2022

Aleksei Burkov , a cybercriminal who long operated two of Russia’s most exclusive underground hacking forums, was arrested in 2015 by Israeli authorities. A 2019 deep dive into Burkov’s hacker alias “K0pa” revealed he also was co-administrator of the secretive Russian cybercrime forum “ Mazafaka.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The Snatch ransomware group announced it had hacked the food giant Kraft Heinz, the company is investigating the claims. The Snatch ransomware group claims to have hacked Kraft Heinz in August and on December 14, it added the company to the list of victims on its leak site.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 26, 2023

Sachkov, 37, has been detained for nearly two years under charges that the Kremlin has kept classified and hidden from public view, and he joins a growing roster of former Russian cybercrime fighters who are now serving hard time for farcical treason convictions. Ilya Sachkov. Image: Group-IB.com. Fancy Bear is one of several names (e.g.,

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Krebs on Security

JULY 22, 2020

The New York Times last week ran an interview with several young men who claimed to have had direct contact with those involved in last week’s epic hack against Twitter. ” Twice in the past year, the OGUsers forum was hacked , and both times its database of usernames, email addresses and private messages was leaked online.

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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. The year 2016 saw banks in Russia hacked one after another.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

“Between December 2018 and June 2019, SSNDOB sent over $100,000 worth of Bitcoin to Joker’s Stash, suggesting the two markets may have had some relationship to one another, including possibly shared ownership.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, SSNDOB Marketplace). ” states Chainalysis. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 30, 2022

A former Canadian government IT worker admitted to being a high-level member of the Russian cybercrime group NetWalker. to charges related to his involvement with the Russian cybercrime group NetWalker. The group has been active since 2019, the NetWalker ransomware has been offered with the Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 29, 2022

KrebsOnSecurity decided to test this expanded policy with what would appear to be a no-brainer request: I asked Google to remove search result for BriansClub , one of the largest (if not THE largest) cybercrime stores for selling stolen payment card data. BriansClub has long abused my name and likeness to pimp its wares on the hacking forums.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2022

SecurityAffairs – hacking, Nitrokod ). The post Nitrokod crypto miner infected systems across 11 countries since 2019 appeared first on Security Affairs. Check Point shared Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) for this campaign. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 24, 2023

Denis Kloster, as posted to his Vkontakte page in 2019. First advertised in the cybercrime underground in 2014, RSOCKS was the web-based storefront for hacked computers that were sold as “proxies” to cybercriminals looking for ways to route their Web traffic through someone else’s device.

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Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2019

A Russian hacking group Fxmsp is offering for sale the access to the networks of at least three antivirus companies in the US and source code of their software. Fxmsp is a high-profile Russian- and English-speaking hacking group focused on breaching high-profile private corporate and government information. ” continues AdvIntel.

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SecureBlitz

APRIL 24, 2024

The worldwide cybercrime incidents exceeded 31,000 cases last year. Also, the global number of data breaches with confirmed data loss reached 3950 in 2019. Want to create a comprehensive cybersecurity plan? Cybersecurity threats are increasing at an alarming rate.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 26, 2024

government says Ermakov and the other actors behind the Medibank hack are believed to be linked to the Russia-backed cybercrime gang REvil. “REvil was among the most notorious cybercrime gangs in the world until July 2021 when they disappeared. At the same time, U.S.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2024

AT&T confirmed that a data breach impacted 73 million current and former customers after its data were leaked on a cybercrime forum. ShinyHunters is a popular hacking crew that is known to have offered for sale data stolen from tens of major organizations, including Tokopedia , Homechef , Chatbooks.com , Microsoft , and Minted.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 5, 2020

China-linked cyber espionage groups increasingly targeted organizations in the telecommunications industry in 2019. “Analysis in 2019 revealed a focus by Chinese adversaries on the telecommunications sector, which could support both signals intelligence and further upstream targeting. SecurityAffairs – hacking, China).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Iran-linked APT group Pioneer Kitten is now trying to monetize its efforts by selling access to some of the networks it has hacked to other hackers. Iran-linked APT group Pioneer Kitten, also known as Fox Kitten or Parisite, is now trying to monetize its efforts by selling access to some of the networks it has hacked to other hackers.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 25, 2022

Prosecutors say the accused also enjoyed a lengthy career of “cashing out” access to hacked bank accounts worldwide. The DirectConnection cybercrime forum, circa 2011. in 2019, soon pleaded guilty , and was sentenced to nine years. An Estonian man was sentenced today to more than five years in a U.S.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2020

Almost daily now there is news about flaws in commercial software that lead to computers getting hacked and seeded with malware. But the reality is most malicious software also has its share of security holes that open the door for security researchers or ne’er-do-wells to liberate or else seize control over already-hacked systems.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2019

For many years and until quite recently, credit card data stolen from online merchants has been worth far less in the cybercrime underground than cards pilfered from hacked brick-and-mortar stores. That figure was more than two and a half times higher than a year earlier. BIG BANG VS. LOW-AND-SLOW.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Justice Department today unsealed indictments against four Chinese officers of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) accused of perpetrating the 2017 hack against consumer credit bureau Equifax that led to the theft of personal data on nearly 150 million Americans. in 2019 , according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence.

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SC Magazine

MAY 20, 2021

President Donald Trump within the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating South and North Korea in 2019. From a preference for writing custom malware code to pioneering new strategies, North Korean hacking groups have shown an innovative spirit that allows them to punch above their weight despite crushing sanctions.

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