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

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. Russian vehicle registration records have also been hacked and leaked online over the years.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Denis Emelyantsev , as the apparent owner of RSOCKS, a collection of millions of hacked devices that were sold as “proxies” to cybercriminals looking for ways to route their malicious traffic through someone else’s computer. ” Kloster’s blog even included a group photo of RSOCKS employees.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2020

A 30-year-old Moldovan man pleaded guilty this week for creating the FastPOS malware that infected PoS systems worldwide. The Moldovan citizen Valerian Chiochiu (30), aka Onassis, pleaded guilty on Friday for creating the infamous FastPOS Point-of-Sale (POS) malware. SecurityAffairs – hacking, FastPOS). and infraud.ws.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Microsoft has taken control of 42 web domains that a hacking group was using to try to breach its targets. Sadly, any setback to the Chinese hacking group or others will likely be temporary as the hackers will find and build new infrastructure to use in forthcoming attacks. An overview of Chinese hacking groups and their aliases.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Microsoft has taken control of 42 web domains that a hacking group was using to try to breach its targets. Sadly, any setback to the Chinese hacking group or others will likely be temporary as the hackers will find and build new infrastructure to use in forthcoming attacks. An overview of Chinese hacking groups and their aliases.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 22, 2022

last week said they dismantled the “ RSOCKS ” botnet, a collection of millions of hacked devices that were sold as “proxies” to cybercriminals looking for ways to route their malicious traffic through someone else’s computer. Authorities in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands and the U.K.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Threat actors behind the ChromeLoader malware campaign are using VHD files disguised as popular games, experts warn. Researchers from Ahnlab Security Emergency Response Center ( ASEC ) recently uncovered a malware campaign distributing the ChromeLoader using VHD files. ” concludes the report.

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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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Department of Justice, the Chinese intelligence officers recruited hackers and insiders to hack aerospace and tech firms. The campaign was carried out at least from January 2010 to May 2015. A JSSD officer provided malware to insiders, two of which is Tian Xi and Gu Gen, to plant the malicious code in the organization.

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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 Boulevard

MAY 5, 2021

According to IBM , the cost of cyber hacks in 2020 is about $3.86 Oftentimes, a cyber attack or cyber hack happens when people don’t know what’s happening in their gadgets. Malware developers have different ways of attacking their victims, and they make their attempts as difficult to identify as they can.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The campaigns involved a new piece of malware called BadBazaar and new variants of the MOONSHINE surveillance software discovered by Citizen Lab in 2019 and employed in attacks against Tibetan activists. . We named this malware family BadBazaar in response to an early variant that posed as a third-party app store titled “APK Bazar.”

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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. A crook has sold 895,000 gift cards and over 300,000 payment cards, for a total of US$38 million, on a top-tier Russian-language hacking forum on the dark web. SecurityAffairs – hacking, dark web).

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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.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, IKEA). percent in Stockholm, to 72.44 kronor ($8.00, 7.06 Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach) The post Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) discloses data breach after ransomware attack appeared first on Security Affairs.

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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. According to the U.S.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

How not to disclosure a Hack. UK fashion retailer FatFace angered customers in its handling of a customer data theft hack. At the start of March 2021, Microsoft rushed out patches for a critical zero-day Vulnerability in Exchange Server (2010, 2013, 2016, and 2019). Microsoft Exchange Zero-Day, Exploitations Led by Hafnium.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

According to the cyber intelligence company Intel 471 , a user named Acidut with the email address iulyan87_4u@gmail.com had an active presence on almost a dozen shadowy money-making and cybercrime forums from 2010 to 2017, including BlackHatWorld , Carder[.]pro 1, 2021: 15-Year-Old Malware Proxy Network VIP72 Goes Dark.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Prilex is a Brazilian threat actor that has evolved out of ATM-focused malware into modular point-of-sale malware. Active since 2014, in 2016, the group decided to give up ATM malware and focus all of their attacks on PoS systems, targeting the core of the payment industry. Evolving into PoS malware.

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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. SecurityAffairs – software skimmers, hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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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

JANUARY 20, 2019

Bulgaria has extradited a Russian hacker that was indicted by a US court for mounting a sophisticated hacking scheme to the United States. Zhukov is accused of being involved in a sophisticated ad fraud scheme that leverages advertising and malware to compromise computer networks. million computers to carry out advertising frauds.

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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 Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2018

Ramnit is one of the most popular banking malware families in existence today, it was first spotted in 2010 as a worm, in 2011, its authors improved it starting from the leaked Zeus source code turning the malware into a banking Trojan. Malware actor publishes the address of the Bot-A in DNS (or using any other public channel).

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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 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. . million computers with malware, attackers used thousands of servers and more than 10,000 counterfeit websites to impersonate legitimate web publishers. 2—The KOVTER Malware Scheme.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The malware used in the Target breach included the text string “ Rescator ,” which also was the handle chosen by the cybercriminal who was selling all of the cards stolen from Target customers. For starters, the text string “Rescator” was found in some of the malware used in the Target breach.

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2019

The Satan ransomware first appeared in the threat landscape in January 2017 when the independent malware research @Xylit0l discovered it. Since its discovery, the malware was costantly updated, in one of the campaigns monitored by Fortinet, it utilized a cryptominer as an additional payload to maximize its profits. .

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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. . Anti-virus and anti-malware need to be up-to-date and firewalls strong.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Wanted Ukrainian cybercrime suspect Vyacheslav “Tank” Penchukov (right) was arrested in Geneva, Switzerland. The JabberZeus malware was custom-made for the crime group by the alleged author of the Zeus trojan — Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev , a top Russian cybercriminal with a $3 million bounty on his head from the FBI.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 8, 2019

But GandCrab far eclipsed the success of competing ransomware affiliate programs largely because its authors worked assiduously to update the malware so that it could evade antivirus and other security defenses. It remains unclear how many individuals were active in the core GandCrab malware development team.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 16, 2019

For at least the past decade, a computer crook variously known as “ Yalishanda ,” “ Downlow ” and “ Stas_vl ” has run one of the most popular “bulletproof” Web hosting services catering to a vast array of phishing sites, cybercrime forums and malware download servers.

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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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SecureList

JULY 28, 2021

The malware creators promoted their brainchild on a specially set-up YouTube channel and Discord server, where they discussed DDoS attacks. This malware is of interest for its use of infected devices as honeypots. In terms of big news, Q2 2021 was relatively calm, but not completely eventless.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 21, 2023

Hacking has gone through several eras over the years, each with its own unique characteristics and motivations. Understanding the history of computer hacking is important for understanding its impact on technology and society, the current state of cybersecurity, and for developing effective strategies for protecting against cyber threats.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

If you’ve used a computer for more than 5 minutes, you probably know a thing or two about computer viruses and malware. On the modern Internet, malware is a near-constant presence. Though often conflated with one another, malware and computer viruses aren’t necessarily the same thing. Looking to Protect Yourself Against Malware?

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