Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Authorities in the United States and United Kingdom today levied financial sanctions against seven men accused of operating “ Trickbot ,” a cybercrime-as-a-service platform based in Russia that has enabled countless ransomware attacks and bank account takeovers since its debut in 2016. companies and government entities.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

.'” MRMURZA Faceless is a project from MrMurza , a particularly talkative member of more than a dozen Russian-language cybercrime forums over the past decade. MrMurza’s Faceless advertised on the Russian-language cybercrime forum ProCrd. was used for an account “Hackerok” at the accounting service klerk.ru

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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

MAY 13, 2024

This post examines the activities of Khoroshev’s many alter egos on the cybercrime forums, and tracks the career of a gifted malware author who has written and sold malicious code for the past 14 years. was used by a Russian-speaking member called Pin on the English-language cybercrime forum Opensc. Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev.

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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

JUNE 29, 2023

Prosecutors in Northern California indicted Kislitsin in 2014 for his alleged role in stealing account data from Formspring. A 2010 indictment out of New Jersey accuses Ieremenko and six others with siphoning nonpublic information from the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Sergei Mikhailov , formerly deputy chief of Russia’s top anti-cybercrime unit, was sentenced today to 22 years in prison. In a telephone interview with this author in 2011, Vrublevsky said he was convinced that Mikhailov was taking information gathered by Russian government cybercrime investigators and feeding it to U.S.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 26, 2020

Ngo’s businesses enabled an entire generation of cybercriminals to commit an estimated $1 billion worth of new account fraud , and to sully the credit histories of countless Americans in the process. Ngo said he started taking classes again back in Vietnam, but soon found he was spending most of his time on cybercrime forums.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The United States today unveiled sanctions and indictments against the alleged proprietor of Joker’s Stash , a now-defunct cybercrime store that peddled tens of millions of payment cards stolen in some of the largest data breaches of the past decade. The answer involved Bitcoin, but also Taleon’s new service.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2020

VPN bulletproof services are widely adopted by cybercrime organizations to carry out malicious activities, including ransomware and malware attacks, e-skimming breaches, spear-phishing campaigns, and account takeovers. ” The three services were advertised on both Russian and English-speaking cybercrime forums.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Many states also lacked the ability to tell when multiple payments were going to the same bank accounts. That’s a minor coup for a company launched in 2010 with the goal of helping e-commerce sites validate the identities of customers for the purposes of granting discounts for veterans, teachers, students, nurses and first responders.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2020

When Keys left Tribune Company-owned Sacramento KTXL Fox 40 in 2010, he shared login credentials of the CMS used by the website with members of Anonymous. Keys was accused of providing Anonymous login credentials that allowed the group to deface access and deface the website of the Los Angeles Times in 2013. ” states the Sacramento Bee.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

The service, which accepts PayPal, Bitcoin and all major credit cards, is aimed primarily at enterprises engaged in repetitive, automated activity that often results in an IP address being temporarily blocked — such as data scraping, or mass-creating new accounts at some service online. pro , Hackforums , OpenSC , and CPAElites.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Researchers from MalwareBytes and HYAS Threat Intelligence linked one of the hacking groups under the Magecart umbrella to the notorious Cobalt cybercrime Group. Security firms have monitored the activities of a dozen groups at least since 2010. Experts noticed that the Cobalt Group also has switched to this technique.

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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

JANUARY 20, 2019

The experts discovered that crooks used over 60,000 accounts selling ad inventory generating a record of 3 to 12 billion of daily ad bid requests. Zhukov, aka Nastra, was arrested in Bulgaria, where he had lived since 2010, in November. ” reported the AFP.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The US FBI issued a warning for the US private sector about e-skimming attacks carried out by the Magecart cybercrime groups. Security firms have monitored the activities of a dozen groups at least since 2010. . The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released an alert on e-skimming attacks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Better accountability. With diverse teams working together on security, developers feel a sense of ownership over the security of their applications, which improves accountability. As more of us embrace digital technology, cybercrime increases. Image Source. Why is DevSecOps important for cybersecurity?

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Police can access information from car-connected phones and online accounts without the warrant typically required.” ICE, which has been buying Berla’s tools and trainings since 2010, spent $500,000 on iVe in September, well over twice its previous record of $200,000. ” continues Forbes.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 25, 2021

She says that the biggest challenges in cybersecurity right now are the highly strategic cybercrime organizations and a lack of skilled cybersecurity professionals to combat it. in Information Systems Management (2010), C.A.S. in Information Security Management (2010), and Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology (2020).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

APT15 has been active since at least 2010, it conducted cyber espionage campaigns against targets worldwide in several industries, including defense, high tech, energy, government, aerospace, and manufacturing. Wi-Fi info (connected or not, and if connected, the IP, SSID, BSSID, MAC, netmask, gateway, DNS1, DNS2). Record phone calls.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The evolution of Iran's cybercrime objectives. We believe that Iran started heavily investing in its cyber operations program following the discovery of Stuxnet in 2010, and we can track the evolution from there. And this face-off continues: "The U.S. and Israel. All five of the suspects are still believed to be in Iran.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Zhukov, aka Nastra, was arrested in Bulgaria, where he had lived since 2010, in November 2018 and was extradited to the US on January 18. . The experts discovered that crooks used over 60,000 accounts selling ad inventory generating a record of 3 to 12 billion of daily ad bid requests. continues the report.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The first two samples had 2010/2011 as the compilation date, as shown on the graph below. SPSniffer , which we described in 2010: both families are able to intercept signals from PIN pads , but use different approaches in doing so. As we noted in 2018, there are many similarities between their ATM and PoS versions. A link to the past.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In this post I'll elaborate more on some of my current and upcoming projects including the recent re-launch of the original [link] which is the original search engine for hackers and security experts circa 1994 under my management including the re-launch of my personal online E-Shop for Intelligence Deliverables and elaborate more on some of the cool (..)

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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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Jane Frankland

JANUARY 13, 2021

Individuals want to understand how to protect their identities, bank accounts, and personal data. This year’s predominant attack vectors and cybercrime trends Phishing attacks have continued to be the most prevalent attack vector as fraudsters have sought new ways to exploit our lives – both personally and professionally – any way they can.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 16, 2025

I'm a 41 years old security blogger cybercrime researcher OSINT analyst and threat intelligence analyst from Bulgaria. Together, we can hold the industry accountable for its promises. I've always been an independent contractor and I often work under NDAs. What are you up to? It is a call to action.

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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

MAY 4, 2023

government this week put a $10 million bounty on the head of a Russian man who for the past 18 years operated Try2Check , one of the cybercrime underground’s most trusted services for checking the validity of stolen credit card data. was used to register an account with the username “Nordex” at bankir[.]com

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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

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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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 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. The government argued that under U.S.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Recent news articles have all been talking about the massive Russian cyberattack against the United States, but that’s wrong on two accounts. In 2010, the US and Israel attacked the Iranian nuclear program. It wasn’t a cyberattack in international relations terms, it was espionage. But it was massive, and it is dangerous.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

At the start of March 2021, Microsoft rushed out patches for a critical zero-day Vulnerability in Exchange Server (2010, 2013, 2016, and 2019). Cybercrime to cost over $10 Trillion by 2025. FBI Internet Crime Report 2020: Cybercrime Skyrocketed, with Email Compromise Accounting for 43% of Losses. Stay safe and secure.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The first accounts of its activity date back to March last year, in which archives carrying COVID-related decoy file names that contained a malicious executable were described in a tweet by MalwareHunterTeam. ReconHellcat is a little-known threat actor that was spotted publicly in 2020. This campaign affected Ethiopia, Palestine and Kuwait.

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