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.” Snatch ransomware operators already leaked 35.9 Is it a ransomware attack? Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Rarely do cybercriminal gangs that deploy ransomware gain the initial access to the target themselves. In this post we’ll look at the clues left behind by “ Babam ,” the handle chosen by a cybercriminal who has sold such access to ransomware groups on many occasions over the past few years. com and wwwpexpay[.]com.

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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

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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The organization confirmed that it was the victim of the massive hacking campaign targeting Progress MOVEit transfer systems that was conducted by the Clop ransomware group. In June, the Clop ransomware group claimed to have hacked hundreds of companies globally by exploiting MOVEit Transfer vulnerability.

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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

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

MAY 13, 2024

and Australia in sanctioning and charging a Russian man named Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev as the leader of the infamous LockBit ransomware group. According to Constella, this email address was used in 2010 to register an account for a Dmitry Yurievich Khoroshev from Voronezh, Russia at the hosting provider firstvds.ru.

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2019

A variant of the Satan ransomware recently observed includes exploits to its arsenal and targets machines leveraging additional flaws. Experts at FortiGuard Labs have discovered a new variant of the Satan ransomware that includes new exploits to its portfolio and leverages additional vulnerabilities to infect as many machines as possible.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

Computer Weekly said it had learnt that FatFace paid a £1.5m ($2 million US dollar) ransom to the Conti Ransomware gang , disclosing the gang gained access to FatFace network and their IT systems via a phishing email on 10th January 2021. More and More Ransomware Attacks. conduct employee phishing tests. conduct penetration testing.

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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. There was also another ransomware named WannaCry that attacked over 500 companies at that time. It was followed by the ransomware that paralyzed the operations of Maersk, Denmark’s transport and logistics giant brand.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 8, 2019

The crooks behind an affiliate program that paid cybercriminals to install the destructive and wildly successful GandCrab ransomware strain announced on May 31, 2019 they were terminating the program after allegedly having earned more than $2 billion in extortion payouts from victims. Image: Malwarebytes. The GandCrab identity on Exploit[.]in

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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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BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Stuxnet in 2010 was the first the most recent was CosmicEnergy in 2023. He gave the example of the ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline in 2021. This note of empathy for victims of cybercrime was one of the strongest themes of the day. It misused operational technology to make changes in the operating environment.

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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. DDoS attacks, ransomware-based campaigns, cryptocurrency mining campaigns). Pierluigi Paganini.

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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

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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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2022

In a great many ransomware attacks, the criminals who pillage the victim’s network are not the same crooks who gained the initial access to the victim organization. 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.

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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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Jane Frankland

JANUARY 13, 2021

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. Additionally, how encouraging it was to see that the majority of competition winners were girls!

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SecureList

JULY 28, 2021

In general, DDoS ransomware attacks continued to gain momentum. Avaddon ransomware operators also tried to intimidate victims through DDoS attacks. After a string of devastating attacks in June, the ransomware creators announced its retirement. In May, the Irish Health Service Executive (HSE) was hit by DDoS.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

Kyle Hanslovan CEO of Huntress Labs joins The Hacker Mind to discuss recent LoL attacks, specifically the Microsoft Follina attack and the Kaseya ransomware attack, and how important it is for small and medium sized businesses to start using enterprise grade security, given the evolving nature of these attacks. Think of it as a Trojan horse.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 21, 2023

Hackers started using the internet to commit cybercrimes, such as stealing credit card numbers and personal information. 2000s As digitization opened up new avenues for exploits, the early 2000s marked a continuation of the rise of both computer hacking and cybercrime that began in the 1990s.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Ransomware, for example, usually doesn’t self-replicate. Going Mobile and Going Global: 2001-2010. Stuxnet , discovered in 2010, was the first documented attempt by sovereign nations to use malware to attack other sovereign nations. The Rise of Ransomware: 2011-2022. This isn’t necessarily true of other types of malware.

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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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SecureList

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The malicious payload was then used to upload additional malware, usually the Quarian backdoor that has been seen in use by Chinese-speaking actors since around 2010. Historically, Lazarus used MATA to attack various industries for cybercrime-like intentions: stealing customer databases and spreading ransomware.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Ransomware was a relatively obscure form of malware until the early 2010s , but it has increased in scope and the amount of damage it has caused year after year, aided by a proliferation of botnets , cryptocurrencies , and sophisticated criminal enterprises. At the beginning of 2020, U.S.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The evolution of Iran's cybercrime objectives. This does not mean actors are not actively seeking to up their technological impact, including aggressively pursuing ransomware methods. Their cyber methods include such things as malware insertions, such as MUD-ing, wiper attacks, like the Shamoon virus. and Israel.

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