The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2021

By patiently slipping past the best cybersecurity systems money can buy and evading detection for 16 months, the perpetrators of the SolarWinds hack reminded us just how much heavy lifting still needs to get done to make digital commerce as secure as it needs to be. Related: DHS launches 60-day cybersecurity sprints.

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Software Hacking Malware Engineering 202

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 26, 2020

For several years beginning around 2010, a lone teenager in Vietnam named Hieu Minh Ngo ran one of the Internet’s most profitable and popular services for selling “ fullz ,” stolen identity records that included a consumer’s name, date of birth, Social Security number and email and physical address. BEGINNINGS.

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Identity Theft Computers and Electronics Hacking Accountability 337

SecureList

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

During the carnival of 2016, a Brazilian bank realized that their ATMs had been hacked, with all the cash contained in those machines stolen. The backdoor would allow the attacker to empty the ATM socket by launching the malware interface and typing a code supplied by the mastermind, the code being specific to each ATM being hacked.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2022

But in more recent years, Wazawaka has focused on peddling access to organizations and to databases stolen from hacked companies. In 2014, Wazawaka confided to another crime forum member via private message that he made good money stealing accounts from drug dealers on these marketplaces. “Come, rob, and get dough!,”

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 15, 2023

"Stealers" are a kind of malware designed to run on an endpoint post-compromise, while their primary features center on the theft of user data. Large commercial hosting provider Hetzner (AS24940) accounts for nearly half of the hosts in addition to a number at OVH (AS16276). The seller later advertised Mystic Stealer on the XSS forum.

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Cryptocurrency Password Management Malware DNS 52