Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The authorities reported that since 2011, 7 million Bitcoin went into the BTC-e exchange and 5.5 According to the Greek media outlet the Daily Thess, the FBI tracked Alexander Vinnik for more than a year. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime). million withdrawn. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2023

The malware allows operators to steal login credentials from popular services such as social media platforms and cryptocurrency wallets, then stolen data is sold on cybercrime forums by the operators. CryptBot distributors spread the malware through modified versions of legitimate software such as Google Earth Pro and Google Chrome.

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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and 5.5 The authorities reported that since 2011, 7 million Bitcoin went into the BTC-e exchange and 5.5 million withdrawn.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

According to the cyber intelligence company Intel 471 , a user named Acidut with the email address iulyan87_4u@gmail.com had an active presence on almost a dozen shadowy money-making and cybercrime forums from 2010 to 2017, including BlackHatWorld , Carder[.]pro pro , Hackforums , OpenSC , and CPAElites. IO (NOW MERCIFULLY OFFLINE).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2019

The authorities reported that since 2011, 7 million Bitcoin went into the BTC-e exchange and 5.5 According to the Greek media outlet the Daily Thess, the FBI tracked Alexander Vinnik for more than a year. SecurityAffairs – cybercrime, hacking). million withdrawn. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The Greek authorities have approved the extradition of Russian Alexander Vinnik to Russia, the decision has surprised the media because the man was expected to be extradited in the US or France as previously announces. The authorities reported that since 2011, 7 million Bitcoin went into the BTC-e exchange and 5.5 million withdrawn.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 31, 2024

Ghosemajumder “Generative AI cybercrime poses the greatest security challenge of our time,” said Shuman Ghosemajumder, co-founder & CEO of Reken. While billions have been spent on security products, the impact of cybercrime has actually been getting worse. Media Contact: press@reken.ai

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2019

Since April 2019, Group-IB has successfully blocked more than 43,000 links to pirated copies of the Game of Thrones Season 8 on pirate websites, forums, and social media. Illegal copies surfaced on pirate websites, forums, and social media. The average time to detect the first pirated copy on the Internet is 30 minutes.

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Webroot

MAY 12, 2021

“What Bitcoin was to 2011, NFTs are to 2021.”. Even social media posts are being turned into NFTs; the digital certificate for Jack Dorsey’s first-ever Tweet sold for $2.9 NFT theft and a new brand of cybercrime. And NFTs aren’t limited to fine art.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The evolution of Iran's cybercrime objectives. According to a New York City federal court, the attack campaign is believed to have started around late 2011 and ramped up quickly. SecureWorld News researched Iran-backed hackers currently on the FBI's Most Wanted list. And this face-off continues: "The U.S. and Israel.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Cybercrime is a growth industry like no other. This variant of fraud has been around since at least 2011, when an Australian Broadcasting Corporation employee with high-level IT access privileges hijacked company computers to mine Bitcoin. In 2021 alone, IC3 received 847,376 complaints which amounted to $6.9 billion in reported losses.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

We have discovered new evidence showing that Domestic Kitten has been using PE executables to target victims using Windows since at least 2013, with some evidence that it goes back to 2011. On March 31, Google TAG released an update on this activity showing another wave of fake social media profiles and a company the actor set up mid-March.

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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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Krebs on Security

JULY 20, 2021

.” Over the course of his 15-year cybercriminal career, Severa would emerge as a pivotal figure in the cybercrime underground , serving as the primary moderator of a spam community that spanned multiple top Russian cybercrime forums. I will die in a year.” The government argued that under U.S.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 16, 2019

For at least the past decade, a computer crook variously known as “ Yalishanda ,” “ Downlow ” and “ Stas_vl ” has run one of the most popular “bulletproof” Web hosting services catering to a vast array of phishing sites, cybercrime forums and malware download servers.

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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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Krebs on Security

JULY 13, 2023

Helpfully, it included the cell phone number for Noel Biderman , then the CEO of Ashley Madison parent firm Avid Life Media (ALM). TURNABOUT IS FAIR PLAY Things started going sideways for Ashley Madison when Harrison’s employment contract was terminated in November 2011. com website.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The Rise of Ransomware: 2011-2022. Petya was initially developed by a group called Janus Cybercrime Solutions as part of its ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) platform. RaaS quickly became a major force in the world of cybercrime thanks to both Petya and other major ransomware like LeakerLocker and WannaCry.

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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 According to SecureWorks, ZeuS 1.3.4.x, The “fall” of ZeuS Trojan. was leaked.

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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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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

German authorities said Friday they’d arrested seven people and were investigating six more in connection with the raid of a Dark Web hosting operation that allegedly supported multiple child porn, cybercrime and drug markets with hundreds of servers buried inside a heavily fortified military bunker. Image: Blaauw.

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