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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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

At least a dozen patriotic Russian hacking groups have been launching DDoS attacks since the start of the war at a variety of targets seen as opposed to Moscow. But by all accounts, few attacks from those gangs have come close to the amount of firepower wielded by a pro-Russia group calling itself “ NoName057(16).”

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2023

The library has been active since 2009, it offers e-book files in a variety of file formats, stripped of their copyright protections. The list of the domains seized by the authorities includes singlelogin.me, which is used to register new accounts for the service. The library is still reachable through TOR and I2P networks.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

“Today, the United States, in coordination with the United Kingdom, is designating seven individuals who are part of the Russia-based cybercrime gang Trickbot.” The operation aimed at disrupting Russian cybercrime and ransomware. ” reads the press release published by the US Treasury. and allies and partners.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The two individuals, Aleksandr Skorodumov (33) of Lithuania, and Pavel Stassi (30) of Estonia, administrated the bulletproof hosting service between 2009 and 2015. Stassi conducted several administrative tasks for the group, such as registering webhosting and financial accounts using stolen and/or false personal information.

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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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

Bondars is one of the two hackers found to have been running Scan4you from 2009 to 2016, its service was very popular in the cybercrime community and was used by malware developers to test their malicious codes. “In issuing the sentence, the court found a loss amount of $20.5 In addition to the term of imprisonment, U.S.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2019

In the fraud scheme, the criminals impersonate Chinese authorities and attempt to trick victims into transferring money to accounts controlled by the scammers. “The callers typically masquerade as Chinese authorities and pressure or persuade the victims to transfer money to the scammers’ accounts.”

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Wanted Ukrainian cybercrime suspect Vyacheslav “Tank” Penchukov (right) was arrested in Geneva, Switzerland. Once inside a victim company’s bank accounts, the crooks would modify the firm’s payroll to add dozens of “ money mules ,” people recruited through work-at-home schemes to handle bank transfers.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Here are the top Twitter accounts to follow for the latest commentary, research, and much-needed humor in the ever-evolving information security space. Shah provides her expertise in hacking, software development, and kernel development and advocates for open source initiatives. Brian Krebs | @briankrebs. Street @jaysonstreet.

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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

JULY 8, 2019

“In one year, people who worked with us have earned over US $2 billion,” read the farewell post by the eponymous GandCrab identity on the cybercrime forum Exploit[.]in Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab estimated that by the time the program ceased operations, GandCrab accounted for up to half of the global ransomware market.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Number of data leaks from medical organizations, 2009–2020. Vulnerabilities like the one mentioned above enable cybercriminals to hack into users’ devices, and steal their most sensitive data, that is, medical information. Moreover, it’s likely that cybercriminals will try to hack telehealth services.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 13, 2023

[This is Part II of a story published here last week on reporting that went into a new Hulu documentary series on the 2015 Ashley Madison hack.] on Sunday, July 19, when I received a message through the contact form on KrebsOnSecurity.com that the marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com had been hacked. It was around 9 p.m.

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SecureList

JUNE 20, 2022

However, the only actors that deliver the entire narrative of a cyberattack – discussing accountability and international law – are nation states. Cyber attribution is a necessary step to accountability in cyberspace. [2] By covert means, we refer to signals intelligence, illegal wiretapping and sometimes even plain hacking.

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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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