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Giving a Face to the Malware Proxy Service ‘Faceless’

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. was used for an account “Hackerok” at the accounting service klerk.ru

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Who Is the Network Access Broker ‘Babam’?

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

More commonly, that access is purchased from a cybercriminal broker who specializes in acquiring remote access credentials — such as usernames and passwords needed to remotely connect to the target’s network. The username associated with that account was “ bo3dom.” com back in 2011, and sanjulianhotels[.]com

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Why Malware Crypting Services Deserve More Scrutiny

Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

If you operate a cybercrime business that relies on disseminating malicious software, you probably also spend a good deal of time trying to disguise or “crypt” your malware so that it appears benign to antivirus and security products. biz , a long-running crypting service that is trusted by some of the biggest names in cybercrime.

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Microsoft: Slow MFA adoption presents “dangerous mismatch” in security

Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

That leaves 78 percent that only require usernames and passwords to authenticate account users. billion account hijacking attempts using brute-forced stolen passwords. Google introduced 2FA to Gmail in 2011. Milka revealed that, at the time of his talk, less than 10 percent of Google accounts used 2FA.

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The Origins and History of the Dark Web

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. The hidden service gained traction in 2011 and then hit the mainstream when a Gawker article about the site was published.

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How Did Authorities Identify the Alleged Lockbit Boss?

Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

This post examines the activities of Khoroshev’s many alter egos on the cybercrime forums, and tracks the career of a gifted malware author who has written and sold malicious code for the past 14 years. used the password 225948. was used by a Russian-speaking member called Pin on the English-language cybercrime forum Opensc.

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Inside ‘Evil Corp,’ a $100M Cybercrime Menace

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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Another NFT explainer, with a bonus look at the data security implications

Webroot

MAY 12, 2021

“What Bitcoin was to 2011, NFTs are to 2021.”. But naturally, at Carbonite + Webroot, we just wonder how they’ll be used and abused by cybercriminals or if they can be irrevocably lost like the password to a crypto wallet. NFT theft and a new brand of cybercrime. One writer has referred to NFTs as, simply, “ bragging rights.”.

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The Scammers’ Playbook: How Cybercriminals Get Ahold of Your Data

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Cybercrime is a growth industry like no other. To this end, some impressive technology has been created to combat the technological side of the issue, to keep hackers and similar bad actors from accessing data and account privileges they shouldn’t. In 2021 alone, IC3 received 847,376 complaints which amounted to $6.9

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Multiple schools hit by Vice Society ransomware attack

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 15, 2023

The real world impact of cybercrime rears its head once more, with word that 14 schools in the UK have been caught out by ransomware. According to the BBC, the data includes: Passport scans of both pupils and parents which date back to 2011. Ensure your RDP points are locked down with a good password and multi-factor authentication.

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Ten Years Later, New Clues in the Target Breach

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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Phishers turning hard-working: CERT-GIB records upsurge of phishing resource blockages as duration of attacks grows

Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2020

Threat actors included the passwords for accessing the archives’ contents in the subject of the email, the name of the archive, or in their subsequent correspondence with the victim. bypass corporate security systems in H2 2019, cybercriminals continued to archive their malicious attachments.

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Updates from the MaaS: new threats delivered through NullMixer

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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Detecting and Preventing Insider Threats in the Cloud

McAfee

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

While current employees are the biggest perpetrators of insider attacks, accounting for 30% of all incidents, former employees can also cause damage. In 2015, a former Morgan Stanley financial advisor pleaded guilty to stealing 730,000 account records from 2011 to 2014 and saving them on a personal server at home.

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Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

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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The History of Computer Viruses & Malware

eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The document contained a list of pornographic sites, along with passwords for access to said sites and would then spread itself and its NSFW content by emailing the first 50 people in the victim’s contact list. The Rise of Ransomware: 2011-2022. Don’t show anyone else ;)” along with a Word file titled “list.doc.”

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ChatGPT: Cybersecurity friend or foe?

Malwarebytes

MAY 21, 2023

From the first Roomba in 2002 to the first virtual assistant (Siri) in 2011, AI has slowly and steadily penetrated the consumer technology market, often with little comprehension from buyers that artificial intelligence is actually powering the functionality behind their favorite devices.

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Giving a Face to the Malware Proxy Service ‘Faceless’

Who Is the Network Access Broker ‘Babam’?

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Why Malware Crypting Services Deserve More Scrutiny

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Microsoft: Slow MFA adoption presents “dangerous mismatch” in security

The Origins and History of the Dark Web

How Did Authorities Identify the Alleged Lockbit Boss?

Inside ‘Evil Corp,’ a $100M Cybercrime Menace

Another NFT explainer, with a bonus look at the data security implications

The Scammers’ Playbook: How Cybercriminals Get Ahold of Your Data

Multiple schools hit by Vice Society ransomware attack

Ten Years Later, New Clues in the Target Breach

Phishers turning hard-working: CERT-GIB records upsurge of phishing resource blockages as duration of attacks grows

Updates from the MaaS: new threats delivered through NullMixer

Detecting and Preventing Insider Threats in the Cloud

Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

The History of Computer Viruses & Malware

ChatGPT: Cybersecurity friend or foe?

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