Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2021

There is a now-dormant Myspace account for a Matthew Philbert from Orleans, a suburb of Ottawa, Ontario. The information tied to the Myspace account matches the age and town of the defendant. The Myspace account was registered under the nickname “ Darkcloudowner ,” and to the email address dark_cl0ud6@hotmail.com.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

In 2020, the United States brought charges against four men accused of building a bulletproof hosting empire that once dominated the Russian cybercrime industry and supported multiple organized cybercrime groups. From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2022

This post examines some of the clues left behind by “ Wazawaka ,” the hacker handle chosen by a major access broker in the Russian-speaking cybercrime scene. Wazawaka has been a highly active member of multiple cybercrime forums over the past decade, but his favorite is the Russian-language community Exploit.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

” These last two nicknames correspond to accounts on several top cybercrime forums way back in 2013, where a user named “Yaroslav2468” registered using the email address yarik45@gmail.com. Prosecutors say Vasinskyi also used the monikers “ Yarik45 ,” and “ Yaroslav2468.” 3 was Lublin, Poland.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

A notorious hacker convicted of perpetrating tens of thousands of cybercrimes, Kivimäki had been in hiding since October 2022, when he failed to show up in court and Finland issued an international warrant for his arrest. Kivimäki was ultimately convicted of orchestrating more than 50,000 cybercrimes.

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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. The username associated with that account was “ bo3dom.” com back in 2011, and sanjulianhotels[.]com com (2017).

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

If you operate a cybercrime business that relies on disseminating malicious software, you probably also spend a good deal of time trying to disguise or “crypt” your malware so that it appears benign to antivirus and security products. biz , a long-running crypting service that is trusted by some of the biggest names in cybercrime.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

Launched in 2008, privnote.com employs technology that encrypts each message so that even Privnote itself cannot read its contents. For example, this account at Medium has authored more than a dozen blog posts in the past year singing the praises of Tornote as a secure, self-destructing messaging service. Among those is rustraitor[.]info

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

But according to denizens of several Russian-language cybercrime forums that have been following his case in the Israeli news media, Burkov was by all accounts an elite cybercrook who primarily operated under the hacker alias “ K0pa.” A screen shot from the Mazafaka cybercrime forum, circa 2011.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The Internet’s co-designer, Vint Cerf, in a 2008 Guardian interview , explained how the Internet’s 1974, essential enabling Internet-protocol had a design flaw in not enabling packet authentication, security, or privacy at scale. Internet un accountability policy a root cause of Internet in security? Utopia meet reality.

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Jane Frankland

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The Growing Gap in Cyber Defence In 2023, cybercrime continues to loom large, with media headlines underscoring the severity of the issue. You witnessed this during the 2008 recession when the FBI reported a 22.3% growth in cybercrime, and during the COVID-19 pandemic when it surged 300%.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 30, 2023

’ Qakbot , also known as QBot, QuackBot and Pinkslipbot, is an info-stealing malware that has been active since 2008. ” The FBI and the Dutch National Police provided account credentials compromised by the botnet to the data breach notification site Have I Been Pwned.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 24, 2022

Sample portfolio of pay per install rogue fraudulent and malicious affiliate network domains known to have been in operation in 2008 include: vipsoftcash[.]com. Related pay per install rogue fraudulent and malicious domains known to have been used back in 2008 for various rogue fraudulent and malicious purposes include: drawn-cash[.]com.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2023

QBot has been active since 2008, it is used by threat actors for collecting browsing data and banking credentials, and other financial information from the victims. Kaspersky researchers warn of a new QBot campaign leveraging hijacked business emails to deliver malware.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 13, 2023

The message included links to files containing highly sensitive information, including snippets of leaked user account data, maps of internal AshleyMadison company servers, employee network account information, company bank account data and salary information. A snippet of the message left behind by the Impact Team. com website.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter). The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 291 appeared first on Security Affairs.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 14, 2022

We collected the most data ever from 87 organizations that were victims of cyberattacks, and between the original report in 2008 and this year, the biggest shift we' ve seen is the growing importance of end-users whom bad actors prey on for system access. These include social attacks, error and misuse, phishing, and pretexting.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 6, 2022

PoS terminals are attacked just as often: few people give a thought to the fact that these machines need protection, as they hold the key to the bank accounts of hundreds of customers. Recovering from the 2020 slump, the number of attacks continued to grow steadily, and we expect cybercrime activity to increase further.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2019

The second one, tracked as CVE-2019.0880, affects Windows 7 and Server 2008. In April 2015, ESET discovered a malware campaign dubbed Operation Buhtrap , a conjunction of the Russian word for accountant “Buhgalter” and the English word “trap”. The issue resides in the way splwow64 (Thunking Spooler APIs) handles certain calls.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

As with any potential cybercrime, deterrence here will be aided by an awareness of what deepfakes are, how they work, and what they can and can’t do. The number of products connected to the internet surpassed the number of people on the planet somewhere between 2008 and 2010 and is expected to exceed 75 billion by 2025.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Since 2008, antivirus and cybersecurity software testers AV-TEST have kept track of the number of newly-developed malware worldwide, totaling at nearly 1 billion as of September 2022. Today, malware is a common threat to the devices and data of anyone who uses the Internet. An August 2022 Statista report counted 2.8

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