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How Did Authorities Identify the Alleged Lockbit Boss?

Krebs on Security

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. was used by a Russian-speaking member called Pin on the English-language cybercrime forum Opensc. Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev.

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Dissecting the malicious arsenal of the Makop ransomware gang

Security Affairs

The gang leverages exposed remote administration services and internet-facing vulnerabilities to gain and maintain access to victim networks. He is a former member of the ANeSeC CTF team, one of the firsts Italian cyber wargame teams born back in 2011. filename: YDArk.exe md5: 9fd28d2318f66e4fe37a9a5bc1637928 Figure.