Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2023

The price for a stolen account was very cheap, paying a few dollars crooks were able to use it for a specific period. Genesis Market provided access to accounts of the most popular services, including Amazon, eBay, Facebook, Gmail, Netflix, PayPal, Spotify, and Zoom.

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JANUARY 4, 2024

The X account of cybersecurity giant Mandiant was hacked, attackers used it to impersonate the Phantom crypto wallet and push a cryptocurrency scam. Crooks hacked the X account of cybersecurity firm Mandiant and used it to impersonate the Phantom crypto platform and share a cryptocurrency scam. “Sorry, change password please.”

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DECEMBER 23, 2023

The LockBit ransomware claims to have hacked accountancy firm Xeinadin threatens to leak the alleged stolen data. The LockBit ransomware claims responsibility for hacking the Xeinadin accountancy firm and threatens to disclose the alleged stolen data. Account balances. Client legal information. Customer financials.

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JANUARY 7, 2022

million accounts. Threat actors compromised the FlexBooker accounts of more than 3.7 Stolen data are now available for sale on multiple cybercrime forums. FlexBooker recommends users stay vigilant and review account statements and credit reports for suspicious transactions. million accounts. ” states HIBP.

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OCTOBER 17, 2022

Interpol has announced the arrests of 75 individuals as part of a coordinated international operation against an organized cybercrime ring called Black Axe. Interpol arrested 75 individuals as part of a coordinated global operation, codenamed Operation Jackal, against the cybercrime ring Black Axe. and the U.S.) million from victims.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2021

HAEICHI-II: Interpol arrested 1,003 individuals charged for several cybercrimes, including romance scams, investment frauds, and online money laundering. The authorities blocked 2,350 bank accounts linked to the illicit proceeds of online financial crime and intercepted over 27 million dollars. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2023

The experts pointed out that while the majority of zero-days they have discovered in the past were used by APT groups, this zero-day was exploited by a sophisticated cybercrime group. This group is known to have used similar CLFS driver exploits in the past that were likely developed by the same author.

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MARCH 13, 2021

The fire at the OVH datacenter in Strasbourg also impacted the command and control infrastructure used by several nation-state APT groups and cybercrime gangs. The servers were used by cybercrime gangs and APT groups, including Iran-linked Charming Kitten and APT39 groups, the Bahamut cybercrime group, and the Vietnam-linked OceanLotus APT.

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DECEMBER 18, 2023

. “Cashout bank logs” typically refer to a type of cybercrime where individuals gain unauthorized access to banking information, often through phishing attacks or hacking, and then use that information to withdraw money or make unauthorized transactions. Do you want to know how do we protect against info stealers?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Microsoft has uncovered Zerologon attacks that were allegedly conducted by the infamous TA505 Russia-linked cybercrime group. Microsoft spotted a series of Zerologon attacks allegedly launched by the Russian cybercrime group tracked as TA505 , CHIMBORAZO and Evil Corp. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Zerologon).

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APRIL 30, 2023

Threat actors are gaining access to AT&T email accounts in an attempt to hack into the victim’s cryptocurrency exchange accounts. Hackers are breaking into the AT&T email accounts and then using the access they are logging into the victim’s cryptocurrency exchange accounts to drain their crypto funds, TechCrunch reported.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

A suspected leader of the Zeus cybercrime gang, Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov (aka Tank), was arrested by Swiss police. Swiss police last month arrested in Geneva Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov (40), also known as Tank, which is one of the leaders of the JabberZeus cybercrime group. Pierluigi Paganini.

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MARCH 23, 2024

An operation conducted by the Federal Criminal Police Office in Germany (BKA) and the Frankfurt cybercrime combating unit (ZIT) led to the seizure of the infrastructure of the darknet marketplace Nemesis Market in Germany and Lithuania. The Nemesis Market recently reached over 150,000 users and over 1,100 seller accounts registered worldwide.

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AUGUST 9, 2023

Cloud account takeover scheme utilizing EvilProxy hit over 100 top-level executives of global organizations EvilProxy was observed sending 120,000 phishing emails to over a hundred organizations to steal Microsoft 365 accounts. Proofpoint noticed a worrisome surge of successful cloud account compromises in the past five months.

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MARCH 22, 2023

A tainted version of the legitimate ChatGPT extension for Chrome, designed to steal Facebook accounts, has thousands of downloads. Guardio ’s security team uncovered a new variant of a malicious Chat-GPT Chrome Extension that was already downloaded by thousands a day. Left: The “FakeGPT” Variant on Chrome Store.

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JULY 6, 2021

The alleged perpetrator, who turned out to be a citizen of Morocco, was arrested in May by the Moroccan police based on the data about his cybercrimes that was provided by Group-IB. The post Operation Lyrebird: Group-IB assists INTERPOL in identifying suspect behind numerous cybercrimes worldwide appeared first on Security Affairs.

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AUGUST 1, 2023

Researchers spotted a Python variant of the NodeStealer that was designed to take over Facebook business accounts and cryptocurrency wallets. The malicious code was designed to take over Facebook business accounts and steal funds from cryptocurrency wallets. ” reads the analysis published by Palo Alto Networks.

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JUNE 8, 2022

. “The SSNDOB administrators created advertisements on darkweb criminal forums for the Marketplace’s services, provided customer support functions, and regularly monitored the activities of the sites, including monitoring when purchasers deposited money into their accounts.” ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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DECEMBER 11, 2021

Accenture researchers detailed the activity of a new sophisticated cybercrime group, called Karakurt, behind recent cyberattacks. tech, while in August the group registered a Twitter account with the handle “karakurtlair.”. tech, while in August the group registered a Twitter account with the handle “karakurtlair.”.

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OCTOBER 22, 2021

FIN7 is a Russian criminal group that has been active since mid-2015, it focuses on restaurants, gambling, and hospitality industries in the US to harvest financial information that was used in attacks or sold in cybercrime marketplaces. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cyber security). ” concludes the report.

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MAY 30, 2022

Experts warn of a new ongoing WhatsApp OTP scam that could allow attackers to hijack users’ accounts through phone calls. Recently CloudSEK founder Rahul Sasi warned of an ongoing WhatsApp OTP scam that could allow threat actors to hijack users’ accounts through phone calls. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Someone has recently created a large number of fake LinkedIn profiles for Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) roles at some of the world’s largest corporations. If you were confused at this point, you might ask Google who it thinks is the current Chief Information Security Officer of Chevron. of spam and scam.”

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APRIL 24, 2023

Nominate here: [link] Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, PaperCut ) The post Russian cybercrime group likely behind ongoing exploitation of PaperCut flaws appeared first on Security Affairs.

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AUGUST 5, 2022

million accounts was caused by the exploitation of a zero-day flaw. million Twitter accounts that were obtained by exploiting a now-fixed vulnerability in the popular social media platform. Twitter confirmed that the recent data breach that exposed data of 5.4 At the end of July, a threat actor leaked data of 5.4

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APRIL 16, 2023

Microsoft warns of a new Remcos RAT campaign targeting US accounting and tax return preparation firms ahead of Tax Day. Tax Day, Microsoft has observed a new Remcos RAT campaign targeting US accounting and tax return preparation firms. Ahead of the U.S. The phishing attacks began in February 2023, the IT giant reported. LNK) files.

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DECEMBER 31, 2021

The Have I Been Pwned data breach notification service now includes credentials for 441K accounts that were stolen by RedLine malware. The service now includes credentials for 441K accounts stolen by the popular info-stealer. Users have also to change passwords for any account accessed through the infected machine.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 13, 2022

Additionally, there are also Russian cybercrime organizations that are not state-sponsored but are allowed to operate. Although there’s no one magic solution to eliminating cyberattacks and cybercrime risks, there are steps you can take to reduce the chances of becoming a victim. Accounting for humans.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

The cyber department of Ukraine ‘s Security Service (SSU) dismantled a gang that stole accounts of about 30 million individuals. The cyber department of Ukraine ‘s Security Service (SSU) has taken down a group of hackers that is behind the theft of about 30 million individuals. ” concludes the SSU.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Spanish National Police has arrested eight alleged members of a crime organization who were able to steal money from the bank accounts of the victims through SIM swapping attacks. Once hijacked a SIM, the attackers can steal money, cryptocurrencies and personal information, including contacts synced with online accounts.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 22, 2023

Social networks are constantly battling inauthentic bot accounts that send direct messages to users promoting scam cryptocurrency investment platforms. Chaput said that at one point last week the volume of bot accounts being registered for the crypto spam campaign started overwhelming the servers that handle new signups at Mastodon.social.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Login details of more than 36 million Poshmark accounts are available for sale in the cybercrime underground. The company discovered unauthorized access to its servers, the intruders stole personal information of the users, including usernames , hashed passwords, first and last names, gender information, and city of residenc.

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AUGUST 12, 2019

Researchers discovered a dump containing 6,840,339 records associated with StockX user accounts that surfaced in the cybercrime underground. Now a dump containing 6,840,339 unique StockX user accounts surfaced in the cybercrime underground. How to check if your account has been compromised? Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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APRIL 24, 2020

Nintendo has disconnected the NNID legacy login system from main Nintendo profiles after it has discovered a massive account hijacking campaign. The gaming giant Nintendo announced that hackers gained accessed at least 160,000 user accounts as part of an account hijacking campaign since early April. ” reported ZDNet.

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APRIL 12, 2022

The illegal dark web marketplace RaidForums has been shut down and its infrastructure seized as a result of the international law enforcement Operation TOURNIQUET coordinated by Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre. Europol will continue working with its international partners to make cybercrime harder – and riskier –to commit.

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MARCH 24, 2024

surfaces in the threat landscape Pokemon Company resets some users’ passwords Ukraine cyber police arrested crooks selling 100 million compromised accounts New AcidPour wiper targets Linux x86 devices. Is it a Russia’s weapon? Players hacked during the matches of Apex Legends Global Series.

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JANUARY 20, 2022

Crypto.com confirmed that a cyber attack compromised around 400 of its customer accounts leading in the theft of $33 million. Recently, several Crypto.com users reported suspicious transactions that stole thousands of dollars in Ethereum (ETH) despite their accounts being protected with 2FA. "Customer funds were never at risk."

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