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

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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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) has been around for many years now, but few enterprises have fully embraced it. In fact, according to Microsoft’s inaugural “ Cyber Signals ” report, only 22 percent of all its Azure Active Directory (AD) enterprise clients have adopted two-factor authentication (2FA), a form of MFA.

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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. 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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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2022

Intezer cybersecurity researchers have detailed a new information-stealing malware, dubbed YTStealer, that was developed to steal authentication cookies from YouTube content creators. “If YTStealer finds authentication cookies for YouTube, it does something interesting though. ” reads the post published by Intezer.

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Webroot

MAY 12, 2021

“What Bitcoin was to 2011, NFTs are to 2021.”. A distributed group of devices does the work to vouch for the authenticity of the token the same way it does for a bitcoin. An often used and helpful analogy is to certificates of authenticity (COA) like those used in the art world. NFT theft and a new brand of cybercrime.

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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. In 2011, the source code for ZeuS 2.0.8.9 Some variants of ZeuS also affect mobile devices that run Android, Symbian, and Blackberry. was leaked.

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