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.

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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 SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime). The post Alexander Vinnik, the popular cyber criminal goes on trial in Paris appeared first on Security Affairs. million withdrawn. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

Balaban This ransomware was doing the rounds over spam generated by the Gameover ZeuS botnet, which had been originally launched in 2011 as a toolkit for stealing victim’s banking credentials and was repurposed for malware propagation. Forward outlook Ransomware is a dynamic and increasingly hybrid segment of cybercrime.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The blockchain-enabled botnet has been active since at least 2011, researchers estimated that the Glupteba botnet was composed of more than 1 million Windows PCs around the world as of December 2021. Botnet operators use to spread the malware via cracked or pirated software and pay-per-install (PPI) schemes.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

At the time of this writing, no ransomware group has claimed responsibility for the security breach. CDHE provides free access to the identify theft monitoring Experian IdentityWorks SM for 24 months.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2021

FinCEN analyzed a data set composed of 2,184 SARs filed between 1 January 2011 and 30 June 2021 and identified 177 CVC (convertible virtual currency) wallets addresses that were used in ransomware operations associated with the above ransomware variants.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The French court acquitted Vinnik of charges of extortion and association with a cybercrime organization. The authorities reported that since 2011, 7 million Bitcoin went into the BTC-e exchange and 5.5 million withdrawn.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2023

Indicators of Compromise and Yara Rules are available in the original post published by Luca Mella [link] About the author: Luca Mella , Cyber Security Expert, Response & Threat Intel | Manager In 2019, Luca was mentioned as one of the “32 Influential Malware Research Professionals”.

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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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2023

On August 2023, the security researcher 0xToxin documented an infection chain leveraging AutoIT scripts to deliver the DarkGate malware, a particular stealer supporting also HVNC and HAnyDesk, and the C2 he decoded was using the same hostname too. This hostname connection is particularly heterogeneous, but it technically makes sense.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Happy BirthDay Security Affairs! I launched Security Affairs for passion in November 2011 and since then the blog was visited by tens of millions of readers. Eleven years ago I decided to launch Security Affairs, a blog that is considered today one of the most valuable sources of the cybersecurity industry.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2020

Malware delivery: what’s on the menu? H2 2019 has proved the tendency of past several years: mail remains the main method of delivering ransomware, spyware, backdoors and other malware, being used by cyber crooks in 94 percent of cases.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Burkov calls himself a specialist in information security and denies having committed the crimes for which he’s been charged. A screen shot from the Mazafaka cybercrime forum, circa 2011. DirectConnection, circa 2011. FraudCrew, a botnet-based anonymity service offered by K0pa.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 21, 2023

” But the security community and other technology leaders have started raising the alarm, worried about the program’s potential to write malware and spread mis- and disinformation. It can also help automate security incident analysis and vulnerability detection, as well as more accurately filter spam.

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