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

DECEMBER 8, 2021

According to cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 , that dark_cl0ud6@hotmail.com address has been used in conjunction with the handle “ DCReavers2 ” to register user accounts on a half-dozen English-language cybercrime forums since 2008, including Hackforums , Blackhatworld, and Ghostmarket.

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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

JUNE 29, 2023

In a statement provided to KrebsOnSecurity, Group-IB said Mr. Kislitsin is no longer an employee, and that he now works for a Russian organization called FACCT , which stands for “ Fight Against Cybercrime Technologies.” A 2009 census found that Russians make up about 24 percent of the population of Kazakhstan.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

These services can be used in a legitimate manner for several business purposes — such as price comparisons or sales intelligence — but they are also massively abused for hiding cybercrime activity because they can make it difficult to trace malicious traffic to its original source. An ad for war.md, circa 2009.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 20, 2021

.” Over the course of his 15-year cybercriminal career, Severa would emerge as a pivotal figure in the cybercrime underground , serving as the primary moderator of a spam community that spanned multiple top Russian cybercrime forums. In this paid ad from 2004, Severa lists prices to rent his spam botnet.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 28, 2021

Cybercriminals who specialized in one particular area of cybercrime – such as network intrusion, malware development, or money laundering – began offering their products and services to others in exchange for a fee, or a percentage of the illicit proceeds of the scheme in which those products or services were to be used.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 24, 2021

The increasing mobility of data, as it ping-pongs between clouds, data centers and the edge, has made it an easier target of cybercrime groups, which has put a premium on the encryption of that data in recent years. Since then, interest in fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) has increased, largely paralleling the rise of cloud computing.

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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

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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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 5, 2022

It's been active since 2009 and is responsible for many high profile attacks. It is thought to conduct financial cybercrimes as a way to raise money for a regime that has few trading opportunities, because of long-standing international sanctions. Lazarus Group.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

CDHE provides free access to the identify theft monitoring Experian IdentityWorks SM for 24 months.

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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 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seized multiple domains used by the illegal shadow eBook library Z-Library. Z-Library operates as a complex network of approximately 249 interrelated web domains.

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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.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The threat actor has been targeting government, military, energy, financial, educational, healthcare, and technology sector companies since 2009. Group-IB describes Tonto Team: "Tonto Team (aka HeartBeat, Karma Panda, CactusPete, Bronze Huntley, Earth Akhlut) is a cyber espionage threat actor that is believed to originate from China.

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BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Involving law enforcement in incident response In a callback to a talk from the very first IRISSCON back in 2009, the head of the Garda National Cyber Crime Bureau emphasised the need for businesses to report instances of cybercrime so police can understand the nature of threat that other businesses face.

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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.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The group (also known as Cicada, Stone Panda , MenuPass group, Bronze Riverside, and Cloud Hopper ) has been active at least since 2009, in April 2017 experts from PwC UK and BAE Systems uncovered a widespread hacking campaign, tracked as Operation Cloud Hopper , targeting managed service providers (MSPs) in multiple countries worldwide.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 21, 2021

E-gold use peaked in the mid-2000s before it was suspended in 2009 for legal reasons. As cybercrime became more about monetization, cybercriminals began leveraging the currency for money laundering, fraud and other schemes, he said. Cybercrime Rewarded. It’s just more and more volume and attack angles.”.

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BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Detective Inspector Gerard Doyle of the Garda Siochana National Cybercrime Bureau urged victims not to pay the ransom. It’s a message that organisers Irisscert have promoted since the very first IRISSCON back in 2009. Our position is, you shouldn’t pay a ransom. Detective Inspector Gerard Doyle.

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NopSec

MAY 25, 2022

Cybercrime has exploded in growth over the past several years to levels that are stunning to contemplate. To put it into perspective, consider these facts: In 2009, the total reported malware infections worldwide was 12.4 If cybercrime were measured as a country’s economy in 2021, it would be the third largest in the world.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Wanted Ukrainian cybercrime suspect Vyacheslav “Tank” Penchukov (right) was arrested in Geneva, Switzerland. Ultimately, Penchukov’s political connections helped him evade prosecution by Ukrainian cybercrime investigators for many years. This was enough to positively identify Tank as Penchukov, Warner said.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2019

The two governments signed an agreement in 2009 to join the efforts in the fight against the crime. .” Spainish authorities already extradited 225 suspects, 218 of which are Taiwanese. Even is Taiwan split from China in 1949 during a civil war, Beijing still considers the country as part of its territory.

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Cisco Security

JANUARY 10, 2023

But the topic will continue to be in focus as we move into 2023, with insurers demanding greater attribution – aka the science of identifying the perpetrator of a cybercrime by comparing the evidence gathered from an attack with evidence gathered from earlier attacks that have been attributed to known perpetrators to find similarities.

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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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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2019

According to Microsoft since its appearance in 2009, Ursnif has shown incredible capabilities to steal users’ credentials, credentials for local webmail, cloud storage, cryptocurrency exchange platforms and e-commerce sites while remaining more stealthiness as possible. . SecurityAffairs – Ursnif Trojan, cybercrime).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The last global recession occurred in 2009. Every nation analyzed the trends of cybercrime as apprehensions rose. If law enforcement does not attempt to match cybercrime’s rapid rise in popularity, criminals will continue to get away with their actions. Predicting the Future by Looking to the Past.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Number of data leaks from medical organizations, 2009–2020. The HIPAA Journal , which is focused on leaks in the U.S. reported by medical organizations, has also noted the increase in both the number of leaks and the average number of victims as a result of them. Source: HIPAA Journal. In 2021, the situation did not improve.

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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 That email address and nickname had been used since 2009 to register multiple identities on more than a half dozen cybercrime forums. Vpn-service[.]us

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

SpyEye, developed in 2009 and described as a “bank Trojan with a form grabbing capability”, surged from the eighth most common banking malware tool with a 3.4% Phishing is one of the most prevalent forms of cybercrime due to minimal effort required and the fact that it really works. Financial Phishing.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2021

.” When the two newsrooms finally merged in 2009, my position was eliminated.

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SC Magazine

MAY 1, 2021

Moore’s research topics are dedicated to the ongoing progression of cyber law, cybercrime, national and international cyber policy, and disaster recovery efforts. She has over two decades of experience as a cybersecurity professional and over 10 years of experience as a professional educator.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2020

The man operated the Cardplanet site between at least early 2009 through at least August 2013. Burkov was also operating another invite-only cybercrime forum, to obtain membership prospective members needed three existing members to “vouch” for their good reputation in the cybercrime community.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Brian Krebs is an independent investigative reporter known for his coverage of technology, malware , data breaches , and cybercrime developments. Krebs wrote for The Washington Post between 1995 and 2009 before launching his current blog KrebsOnSecurity.com. Brian Krebs | @briankrebs.

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SecureList

JUNE 20, 2022

Such an approach, justified through national security concerns, showed its limitations in 2009, when a commercial communication satellite and a defunct Russian Cosmos satellite collided without advanced warning to the commercial operators.

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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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Krebs on Security

JULY 13, 2023

In December 2009, Harrison faced charges of false imprisonment , charges that were also dropped by the local district attorney. Cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 recorded a series of posts by a user with the handle “ Brutium ” on the Russian-language cybercrime forum Antichat between 2014 and 2016.

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