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

AUGUST 2, 2022

The underground cybercrime forums are now awash in pleas from people who are desperately seeking a new supplier of abundant, cheap, and reliably clean proxies to restart their businesses. com , a malware-based proxy network that has been in existence since at least 2010. Last week, a seven-year-old proxy service called 911[.]re

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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. An advertisement for the ButterFly Bot.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

A native of Omsk, Russia, Kloster came into focus after KrebsOnSecurity followed clues from the RSOCKS botnet master’s identity on the cybercrime forums to Kloster’s personal blog , which featured musings on the challenges of running a company that sells “security and anonymity services to customers around the world.”

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 9, 2023

A Croatian national has been arrested for allegedly operating NetWire , a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) marketed on cybercrime forums since 2012 as a stealthy way to spy on infected systems and siphon passwords. ” In 2010, someone using the email address dugidox@gmail.com registered the domain dugidox[.]com.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 29, 2023

A 2010 indictment out of New Jersey accuses Ieremenko and six others with siphoning nonpublic information from the U.S. ” FACCT says on its website that it is a “Russian developer of technologies for combating cybercrime,” and that it works with clients to fight targeted attacks, data leaks, fraud, phishing and brand abuse.

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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. According to cybersecurity firm Constella Intelligence , the address polkas@bk.ru

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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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Krebs on Security

MARCH 15, 2021

The biggest potential gold mine for de-anonymizing Maza members is the leak of user numbers for ICQ, an instant messaging service formerly owned by AOL that was widely used by cybercrime forum members up until around 2010. That’s about when AOL sold the platform in 2010 to Russian investor DST for $187.5

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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. day to $190/year.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 22, 2022

.” The DOJ’s statement doesn’t mention that RSOCKS has been in operation since 2014, when access to the web store for the botnet was first advertised on multiple Russian-language cybercrime forums. Even today, the RUSdot Mailer is advertised for sale at the top of the RUSdot community forum.

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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. Image: Darkbeast/Ke-la.com. In 2013, U.S.

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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. Babam has authored more than 270 posts since joining Exploit in 2015, including dozens of sales threads. com and wwwpexpay[.]com.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

. “The personal health information that was copied was collected from a large network of mostly Ontario health care facilities and providers regarding fertility, pregnancy, newborn and child health care offered between January 2010 and May 2023.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2021

A threat actor has sold almost 900,000 gift cards and over 300,000 payment cards on a cybercrime forum on the dark web. ” The investigation of the cybercriminal actor selling the gift cards and payment cards revealed that he is a prolific Russian-speaking hacker who was engaged in similar activities since 2010.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2020

Chiochiu was a member of the Infraud global cybercrime organization involved in stealing and selling credit card and personal identity data. The group is active since 2010, when it created in Ukraine by Svyatoslav Bondarenko. The main website was a crime forum that was founded in 2010, it first operated at infraud.cc

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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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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

AUGUST 6, 2023

The company added that the incident may have impacted those that attended a public institution of higher education in Colorado between 2007-2020, attended a Colorado public high school between 2004-2020, individuals with a Colorado K-12 public school educator license between 2010-2014, participated in the Dependent Tuition Assistance Program from 2009-2013, (..)

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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. She graduated from West Point with a B.S.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Security firms have monitored the activities of a dozen groups at least since 2010. The Magecart group used a generic phishing technique to gather and sell full sets of an individual’s personally identifying information along with financial data (identified with the slang term fullz in the cybercrime underground).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In 2010, Volvo Cars became a subsidiary of the Chinese manufacturer Geely Holding Group, which confirmed that it “has become aware that one of its file repositories has been illegally accessed by a third party.” Swedish automotive manufacturer Volvo Cars revealed that threat actors have stolen R&D data from its systems.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Security experts linked the Magecart group 5 to the infamous Dridex banking Trojan and the Carbanak cybercrime group. Security firms have monitored the activities of a dozen groups at least since 2010. . SecurityAffairs – Magecart Group 5, cybercrime ). Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 5, 2021

According to the Message Anti-Abuse Working Group , about 88–92% of total email messages in 2010 are spam. However, they are vulnerable to cybercrimes themselves and have already experienced previous attacks. Some of them use spam which is in the form of unsolicited and inappropriate messages.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

These VHD files are disguised as applications and hacks or cracks for popular Nintendo and Steam games, including ELDEN RING, Dark Souls 3, Red Dead Redemption 2, Call of Duty Deluxe Edition, Minecraft, The Legend of Zelda, Pokemon Ultra Moon, Animal Crossing New Horizons, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Microsoft Office 2010 and more.

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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.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The campaign was carried out at least from January 2010 to May 2015. According to the indictment, the hackers hired by the Chinese intelligence were also involved in cybercriminal activities, a circumstance that highlights the thin line between nation-state hacking and cybercrime.

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BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Stuxnet in 2010 was the first the most recent was CosmicEnergy in 2023. This note of empathy for victims of cybercrime was one of the strongest themes of the day. Jude McCorry, CEO of the Cyber and Fraud Centre Scotland suggested diverting some proceeds of cybercrime towards supporting victims.

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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.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2019

Cybercrime gangs under the Magecart umbrella continue to compromise e-commerce platforms to steal payment card data from users worldwide. Security firms have monitored the activities of a dozen groups at least since 2010.

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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.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 1, 2019

A Slovenian man convicted of authoring the destructive and once-prolific Mariposa botnet and running the infamous Darkode cybercrime forum has been arrested in Germany on request from prosecutors in the United States, who’ve recently re-indicted him on related charges. issued international arrest warrant for his extradition.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

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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.

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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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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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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The group’s activities have been traced back to 2010 when it performed a cyberespionage campaign directed at diplomatic organizations and missions in Europe. Others in the security community who have researched this group of actors refer to the group by other names, including KE3CHANG, APT15, Vixen Panda, Royal APT, and Playful Dragon.

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