Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In December 2021, Google filed a civil lawsuit against two Russian men thought to be responsible for operating Glupteba , one of the Internet’s largest and oldest botnets. ” A report from the Polish computer emergency response team (CERT Orange Polksa) found Glupteba was the biggest malware threat in 2021. .

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Webroot

APRIL 7, 2021

With investors currently bullish on Bitcoin, is its high value is driving cybercriminals to pursue crypto-generating forms of cybercrime like ransomware and illicit miners? Famously volatile , a crash is widely expected to accompany the current bubble, perhaps before the end of 2021. A more direct relationship.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 4, 2022

Department of Justice announced on July 26 that it seized approximately half a million dollars’ worth of cryptocurrency assets from North Korean based threat actors, who receive the funds as ransom following a ransomware operation against U.S. based hospitals. 2 , 3 ) In late July, the U.S. 5 ) More recently, the U.S.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2022

ERMAC was first spotted by researchers from Threatfabric in July 2021, it is based on the popular banking trojan Cerberus. is able to steal credentials for financial and cryptocurrency apps included in the list of targeted apps that are sent by the C2. The ERMAC Android banking trojan version 2.0 IoCs: Distribution: bolt-food[.]site

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2022

Cash App is an app that allows users to easily send money, spend money, save money, and buy cryptocurrency. the “Company”) announced that it recently determined that a former employee downloaded certain reports of its subsidiary Cash App Investing LLC (“Cash App Investing”) on December 10, 2021 that contained some U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

They could be on the other side of the globe, part of a cybercrime regime that will never be discovered, much less brought to justice. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received 3,729 ransomware complaints in 2021, representing $49.2 But the situation isn’t hopeless. Prevalence. million in adjusted losses.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2022

The REvil ransomware operation shut down in October 2021, in January the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) announced to have shut down the REvil ransomware gang, the group that is behind a long string of attacks against large organizations, such as Kaseya and JBS USA. The raids took place in Moscow, St. To nominate, please visit:?

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 31, 2022

The cryptocurrency lending platform announced via Twitter that a hacker stole Binance Coin totaling over $80 million through its QBridge protocol. According to a report released by Chainalysis in 2021, $2.2 Decentralized Finance (DeFi) platforms have been hot targets for threat actors, and Qubit Finance has become the latest victim.

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Webroot

MAY 12, 2021

“What Bitcoin was to 2011, NFTs are to 2021.”. Since cryptocurrencies were, are and will continue to be impactful technologies, surely NFTs are a topic worth exploring. NFTs use the same blockchain ledger technology to verify uniqueness that cryptocurrencies rely on to prove ownership. NFT theft and a new brand of cybercrime.

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The Security Ledger

MAY 15, 2021

In this episode of the podcast (#214), Brandon Hoffman, the CISO of Intel 471 joins us to discuss the recent ransomware attack on the Georgia-based Colonial Pipeline, and the suspected group behind it: DarkSide a ransomware for hire cybercrime outfit. government into an unanticipated crisis.

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Digital Shadows

JULY 5, 2021

On 02 July 2021, details started to emerge of a sophisticated supply-chain attack targeting Kaseya VSA, virtual system administrator software used to manage and monitor customers’ infrastructure. Kaseya’s CEO, Fred Voccola, claimed on 03 July 2021 that “fewer than 40 worldwide” customers were impacted.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2022

The botnet has been active since at least the end of 2020, but its activity was documented in April 2021 by multiple security researchers. The new variant, which we call Sysrv-K, sports additional exploits and can gain control of web servers. — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) May 13, 2022. To nominate, please visit:?

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SecureList

MAY 12, 2021

Finally, negotiations with the victims may be handled by yet another team and when the ransom is paid out, a whole new set of skills is needed to launder the cryptocurrency obtained. They interact with each other through internet handles, paying for services with cryptocurrency. Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency is used for payment.

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SC Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2021

In a blog , Team Cymru, a cybersecurity company that aggregates and analyzes malicious network traffic, said they worked with law enforcement agencies in the latter stages of the takedown, specifically helping to block parts of Emotet’s infrastructure that couldn’t be legally seized by authorities. On Tuesday, Jan. It also disclosed the Jan.

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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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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In 2021, law enforcement continued making a tremendous effort to track down, capture and arrest ransomware operators, to take down ransomware infrastructure, and to claw back ransomware payments. Related: The targeting of supply chains. Reconstituted hacker rings. In 2022 we expect to see more aggressive and complex ransomware efforts.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2021

The new variants of the worm were identified in June 2021 by our threat intelligence systems. In this blog, we will detail the usage of MSR to disable the hardware prefetcher in the cryptomining malwares. Figure 5: /etc/hosts modification. Figure 18: Toolkit data showing attribution. Conclusion.

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Webroot

JANUARY 7, 2022

2020 may have been the year of establishing remote connectivity and addressing the cybersecurity skills gap, but 2021 presented security experts, government officials and businesses with a series of unpresented challenges. Threats abound in 2021. Malware made leaps and bounds in 2021. Cryptocurrency. Ransomware.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 18, 2021

Joker’s Stash , by some accounts the largest underground shop for selling stolen credit card and identity data, says it’s closing up shop effective mid-February 2021. The announcement came on the heels of a turbulent year for the major cybercrime store, and just weeks after U.S. Image: Gemini Advisory. Then on Dec.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

That reporting was based on clues from an early Russian cybercrime forum in which a hacker named Rescator — using the same profile image that Rescator was known to use on other forums — claimed to have originally been known as “Helkern,” the nickname chosen by the administrator of a cybercrime forum called Darklife.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2021

Reinvention is a basic survival skill in the cybercrime business. But REvil’s victim shaming blog would disappear from the dark web just four days later. All three of these ransom operations stem from a prolific cybercrime group known variously as TA505, “ Indrik Spider ” and (perhaps most memorably) Evil Corp.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In 2021, the 24/7 news cycle was filled with stories of cyberattacks. There was the infrastructure ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline in May 2021, which caused the company to cease operations for days. Cybercrime is no longer a punishment-free crime.”. appeared first on Webroot Blog. food supplies.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

We also identified two samples developed in December 2021 containing test strings and preceding revisions of the ransom note observed in Microsoft’s shared samples. One of the identified samples was compiled on December 28, 2021, suggesting that this destructive campaign had been planned for months. … ?????? ??????!!!

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In this blog post, we'll focus on the two DOJ reports, which we will address in the reverse order of their release, as it seems that it is required to define the role of law enforcement in digital assets before discussing the international cooperation one would seek in this area. The Bitqyck case and the $2.4

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

While the resource was down, cryptocurrency newbies were invited to download a copy of Bitcoin Core via a torrenting service. Cybercriminals used the names of well-known APT groups to intimidate victims, demanded ransoms in cryptocurrency, and carried out demonstration attacks to back up their threats.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 7, 2021

” in 2021. From January to November 2021, the number of victims was 30% higher than that in all of 2020, affecting a total of 1,500 organizations. alone may have paid nearly 600 million dollars to ransomware groups in the first half of 2021. Key ransomware events in 2021. In September 2021, the U.S.

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SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

In January, we reported a malicious campaign targeting companies that work with cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, decentralized finance and blockchain technology: the attackers are interested in fintech in general. The campaign has two goals: gathering information and stealing cryptocurrency.

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SecureList

JULY 29, 2021

This is our latest installment, focusing on activities that we observed during Q2 2021. According to public blogs, targeting was widespread but focused primarily on diplomatic entities throughout Europe and North America: based on the content of the lure documents bundled with the malware, this assessment appears to be accurate.

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SecureList

JULY 28, 2022

In late 2021, we encountered a malicious DXE driver incorporated into several UEFI firmware images that were flagged by our firmware scanner (integrated into Kaspersky products at the start of 2019). Pangolin is private malware we discovered in 2021, exclusively used by ZexCone, the threat actor behind ExCone and DexCone. Middle East.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

While this untrustworthy behavior is nothing new in the world of cybercrime, the victims' data end up in the hands of multiple threat actors, increasing the risks of one or more large scale attacks to follow. Cryptocurrency services*. ud83dudcb0 *Cryptocurrency services*. ?? Key Points. StormKitty - Report:*. Banking services*.

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SC Magazine

MAY 20, 2021

Many countries have incorporated offensive cyber operations into their overall geopolitical strategies, but North Korea was among the first nations to leverage its government hacking capabilities in the cybercrime arena.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 11, 2021

Yes, these organized cybercrime groups have been known to offer 24/7 technical support, subscriptions, quality assurance, affiliate schemes, and online forums just like legitimate SaaS companies. patched April 10th, 2021. patched May 8th, 2021. Kaseya’s VSA server v9.5.6 The vulnerabilities including and not limited to.

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