Krebs on Security

AUGUST 26, 2020

Ngo got his treasure trove of consumer data by hacking and social engineering his way into a string of major data brokers. O’Neill said he opened the investigation into Ngo’s identity theft business after reading about it in a 2011 KrebsOnSecurity story, “ How Much is Your Identity Worth? BEGINNINGS.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2023

The malware allows operators to steal login credentials from popular services such as social media platforms and cryptocurrency wallets, then stolen data is sold on cybercrime forums by the operators. To prevent infections from malware like Cryptbot, Cybercrime Support Network recommends users to Download from well-known and trusted sources.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2024

Alexander Vinnik , a Russian national, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering for his involvement in operating the cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e from 2011 to 2017. Vinnik set up numerous such shell companies and financial accounts across the globe to allow BTC-e to conduct its business.”

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

But the dark web is also associated with illegal activities including the trafficking of drugs, weapons, and illegal pornography, hacking and cybercrime, terrorism, and the sale of stolen data or personal information. From 2011 to 2013, the Silk Road hosted 1.2 The deep web is far and away the largest part of the internet.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Alexander Vinnik allegedly headed the Bitcoin exchange BTC-e, he is charged with different hacking crimes in Russia, France, and the United States. The authorities reported that since 2011, 7 million Bitcoin went into the BTC-e exchange and 5.5 SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime). million withdrawn. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The blockchain-enabled botnet has been active since at least 2011, researchers estimate that the Glupteba botnet is currently composed of more than 1 million Windows PCs around the world. The IT giant also removed 1,183 Google accounts, 908 cloud projects, and 870 Google Ads accounts used by the operators. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2022

To validate the cookies and to grab more information about the YouTube user account, the malware starts one of the installed web browsers on the infected machine in headless mode and adds the cookie to its cookie store.” Aparat is an Iranian video-sharing site that was founded in 2011. SecurityAffairs – hacking, YTStealer).

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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.

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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 6, 2018

Berman said: “Silk Road was a secret online marketplace for illegal drugs, hacking services, and a whole host of other criminal activity. According to FBI , between February of 2011 and July 2013, Silk Road managed $1.2 Security Affairs – Tor, cybercrime). “Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. 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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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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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2020

In the second half of 2019, ransomware remained the most frequent “stuffing” of phishing emails, accounting for 47 percent of the total number of malicious attachments. SecurityAffairs – phishing attacks, hacking). Figure 3 Top-10 threats hiding in phishing emails in H2 2019 and extension of attached malicious files.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2023

The threat actor abused Bitly shortener and an ad hoc BlogSpot account to protect the malicious code, lastly stored in an encrypted zip archive hosted on Mega.nz. He is a former member of the ANeSeC CTF team, one of the firsts Italian cyber wargame teams born back in 2011.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 13, 2023

[This is Part II of a story published here last week on reporting that went into a new Hulu documentary series on the 2015 Ashley Madison hack.] on Sunday, July 19, when I received a message through the contact form on KrebsOnSecurity.com that the marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com had been hacked. It was around 9 p.m.

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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

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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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

What makes Iran's military hacking methods a significant threat? In the digital world, bad actors are using social engineering methods to hack on behalf of the Iranian government, even threatening the 2020 U.S. The evolution of Iran's cybercrime objectives. However, Iran is considered one of the major cyber threats to U.S.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 27, 2020

Petersburg, Russia admitted to running CardPlanet , a site that sold more than 150,000 stolen credit card accounts, and to being a founder of DirectConnection — a closely guarded underground community that attracted some of the world’s most-wanted Russian hackers. Photo: Andrei Shirokov / Tass via Getty Images. Aleksei Burkov of St.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Welcome to [link] Hacked By Chinese!”. It could install a keylogging program, allowing the hacker to gain access to sensitive information like bank account details, passwords, and physical addresses as long as the victim typed that information into their computer at any point. The Rise of Ransomware: 2011-2022.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 27, 2020

Burkov, 29, admitted to running CardPlanet , a site that sold more than 150,000 stolen credit card accounts, and to being the founder and administrator of DirectConnection — a closely guarded underground community that attracted some of the world’s most-wanted Russian hackers. Andrei Shirokov / Tass via Getty Images.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

When Israeli authorities turned down requests to send him back to Russia — supposedly to face separate hacking charges there — the Russians then imprisoned an Israeli woman for seven years on trumped-up drug charges in a bid to trade prisoners. A screen shot from the Mazafaka cybercrime forum, circa 2011.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 25, 2022

Prosecutors say the accused also enjoyed a lengthy career of “cashing out” access to hacked bank accounts worldwide. ” Cashouts refer to using stolen payment card data to make fraudulent purchases or to withdraw money from bank accounts without authorization. The DirectConnection cybercrime forum, circa 2011.

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