Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2023

Iran-linked APT group Charming Kitten employed a new malware dubbed BellaCiao in attacks against victims in the U.S., The Charming Kitten used a new custom malware, dubbed BellaCiao, that is tailored to suit individual targets and is very sophisticated. Europe, the Middle East and India. Israel, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia.

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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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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The forum’s member roster includes a Who’s Who of top Russian cybercriminals, and it featured sub-forums for a wide range of cybercrime specialities, including malware, spam, coding and identity theft. In almost any database leak, the first accounts listed are usually the administrators and early core members.

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SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

The mobile malware Trojan-Ransom.AndroidOS.Agent.aq Last year was notable for both malware and adware, the two very close in terms of capabilities. Interestingly enough, the share of adware attacks increased in relation to mobile malware in general. They typically work with malware developers to achieve this.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 20, 2024

Finally, Congress appears to be heeding lessons available to be learned since the hacking John Podesta’s email account – not to mention all of the havoc Russia was able to foment in our 2016 elections, attempting to interfere in 39 states. In 2011, Russia launched a social media site called iFunny aimed at disaffected young men.

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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. Botnet operators use to spread the malware via cracked or pirated software and pay-per-install (PPI) schemes. users were warned via Safe Browsing.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2023

to disrupt the operations of the CryptBot malware, which experts estimate infected approximately 670,000 computers this past year. Google targeted the distributors of the malware who are paid to spread and deliver the malicious code and infect a larger number of systems as possible. ” reads the announcement published by Google.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 14, 2022

Zloader or Zbot are common names used to refer to any malware related to the ZeuS family. There are a lot of those because the ZeuS banking Trojan source code was leaked in 2011, and so there’s been plenty of time for several new variants to emerge. Legal action. We also saw this method recently used against the Strontium group.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 17, 2024

When you look at the above forum post the data accompanied, the reason why becomes clear: it's from "stealer logs" or in other words, malware that has grabbed credentials from compromised machines. Yep, turns out it is and with a very old password I'd genuinely used pre-2011 when I rolled over to 1Password for all my things.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

But according to denizens of several Russian-language cybercrime forums that have been following his case in the Israeli news media, Burkov was by all accounts an elite cybercrook who primarily operated under the hacker alias “ K0pa.” A screen shot from the Mazafaka cybercrime forum, circa 2011.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2022

The alert remarks that Russian nation-state actors have demonstrated sophisticated tradecraft and cyber capabilities by compromising third-party infrastructure, compromising third-party software, or developing custom malware. Russian state-sponsored APT actors’ global Energy Sector intrusion campaign, 2011 to 2018.

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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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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

You probably use the deep web all the time — examples may include bank accounts, your email, and login-restricted content such as news or streaming entertainment. The hidden service gained traction in 2011 and then hit the mainstream when a Gawker article about the site was published. From 2011 to 2013, the Silk Road hosted 1.2

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Microsoft has been tracking the threat actors at least since 2013, but experts believe that the cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2011. . ” The surveillance operations conducted by the APT group involved the distribution of Android malware such as VINETHORN and PINEFLOWER.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 20, 2021

A federal judge in Connecticut today handed down a sentence of time served to spam kingpin Peter “Severa” Levashov , a prolific purveyor of malicious and junk email, and the creator of malware strains that infected millions of Microsoft computers globally.

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NopSec

MAY 17, 2016

One quantitative measure NopSec employs to help an organization evaluate the risk of a vulnerability is through malware correlation. If a vulnerability has malware correlated with it, it represents elevated risk. This leads to an overall malware exploit rate of about 2.8%. What is the CVSS? being the latest version.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2018

Security researchers at Intezer and McAfee have conducted a joint investigation that allowed them to collect evidence that links malware families attributed to North Korean APT groups such as the notorious Lazarus Group and Group 123. Each node represents a malware family or a hacking tool (“ Brambul ,” “ Fallchill ,” etc.)

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

In 2013, Vrublevsky was convicted of hiring his most-trusted spammer and malware writer to launch a crippling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against one of his company’s chief competitors. law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

They hack into their teacher’s account and leave messages making fun of him. Air Force research facility, discover a password “sniffer” has been installed onto their network, compromising more than 100 user accounts. After being released in 2003, he uses WiFi to commit attacks, program malware and steal credit card information.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 21, 2021

In the context of cybercrime though, ZeuS (aka the Zbot Trojan) is a once-prolific malware that could easily be described as one of a handful of information stealers ahead of its time. Collectively, this malware and its variants infected millions of systems and stole billions of dollars worldwide. According to SecureWorks, ZeuS 1.3.4.x,

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2020

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The feds allege Aqua led an elite cybercrime ring with at least 16 others who used advanced, custom-made strains of malware known as “ JabberZeus ” and “ Bugat ” (a.k.a. Your payroll accounts have been hacked, and you’re about to lose a great deal of money. Here’s where it got interesting.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The malware was also used by the attackers to browse the web, likely using it as a proxy to mask their IP address. “The xPack malware and its associated payload seems to be used for initial access; it appears that xPack was predominantly used to execute system commands, drop subsequent malware and tools, and stage data for exfiltration.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

NullMixer is a dropper leading to an infection chain of a wide variety of malware families. These websites are often related to crack, keygen and activators for downloading software illegally, and while they may pretend to be legitimate software, they actually contain a malware dropper. Malware execution instructions.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 11, 2023

In a recent tweet , the FBI office in Denver warned consumers against using free public charging stations, stating that criminals have managed to hijack public chargers with the objective of infecting devices with malware or other software that can give hackers access to your phone, tablet or computer.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

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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. ” A teaser from Irish Tech News.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 30, 2023

The campaign began in 2011 as World Backup Month and was changed to World Backup Day later. World Backup Day is an annual celebration held by the backup technology industry to encourage people to back up their data and avoid the risk of losing it forever. Here are some perspectives from industry experts.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Microsoft has been tracking the threat actors at least since 2013, but experts believe that the cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2011. . “The targeted accounts are associated with a U.S. “The targeted accounts are associated with a U.S. ” reads the analysis published by Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2020

Microsoft has been tracking the threat actors at least since 2013, but experts believe that the cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2011 targeting journalists and activists in the Middle East, as well as organizations in the United States, and entities in the U.K., Israel, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia.

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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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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

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. Phishing complaints were reported over 300,000 times in 2021 to IC3, the only Internet crime to crack 100,000+ complaints. Social Tactics.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The authorities reported that since 2011, 7 million Bitcoin went into the BTC-e exchange and 5.5 “Prosecutors identified 20 businesses in six cities across France among the victims and following the money trail through various bank accounts — as much as $8 million — identified one as belonging to Vinnik.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2023

A technical analysis of NullMixer malware operation revealed Italy and France are the favorite European countries from the attackers’ perspective. Executive Summary Our insights into a recent NullMixer malware operation revealed Italy and France are the favorite European countries from the opportunistic attackers’ perspective.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 3, 2021

In fact, REvil/Sodinokibi topped our ransomware detections in Q2 of 2021, accounting for 73% of our top-10 ransomware detections. Cloud incidents targeting verticals in the United States accounted for 34% of incidents recorded, with a 19% decrease in Great Britain. COVID-19 Impact on Workforce Continues to Increase Cloud Threats.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Their cyber methods include such things as malware insertions, such as MUD-ing, wiper attacks, like the Shamoon virus. Notably, our research did not reveal new evidence of the threat actor's adoption of malware in its campaigns. All five of the suspects are still believed to be in Iran.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Microsoft has been tracking the threat actors at least since 2013, but experts believe that the cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2011 targeting journalists and activists in the Middle East, as well as organizations in the United States, and entities in the U.K., Israel, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. ” continues the report.”In

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