The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The Archiveus Trojan from 2006 was the first one to use RSA cipher, but it was reminiscent of a proof of concept and used a static 30-digit decryption password that was shortly cracked. Forward outlook Ransomware is a dynamic and increasingly hybrid segment of cybercrime. None of these early threats went pro. pharma giant ExecuPharm.

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Webroot

MAY 12, 2021

“What Bitcoin was to 2011, NFTs are to 2021.”. But naturally, at Carbonite + Webroot, we just wonder how they’ll be used and abused by cybercriminals or if they can be irrevocably lost like the password to a crypto wallet. NFT theft and a new brand of cybercrime. One writer has referred to NFTs as, simply, “ bragging rights.”.

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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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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 15, 2023

The real world impact of cybercrime rears its head once more, with word that 14 schools in the UK have been caught out by ransomware. According to the BBC, the data includes: Passport scans of both pupils and parents which date back to 2011. Ensure your RDP points are locked down with a good password and multi-factor authentication.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

As cybercrime flourishes and evolves, organizations need a fleet of tools to defend and investigate incidents. Together FTK’s capabilities include a wizard-driven approach to detection, charts crafted to visualize data, password recovery for up to 100 apps, and support for pre-and post-refinement. Magnet Forensics.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Cybercrime is a growth industry like no other. Often, a scammer will simply target the people in a company and fool them into giving up their personal details, account passwords, and other sensitive information and gain access that way. In 2021 alone, IC3 received 847,376 complaints which amounted to $6.9 billion in reported losses.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2023

Figure.NET flags (left) and obfuscation pattern (right) The tool is designed for two main purposes: generating comb lists of local windows user names and potential passwords, and testing them locally. The tool is able to automatically retrieve local users from groups, filter for administration, and then test the password.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2020

Threat actors included the passwords for accessing the archives’ contents in the subject of the email, the name of the archive, or in their subsequent correspondence with the victim. bypass corporate security systems in H2 2019, cybercriminals continued to archive their malicious attachments.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Justice Department this month offered a $5 million bounty for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a Russian man indicted for allegedly orchestrating a vast, international cybercrime network that called itself “ Evil Corp ” and stole roughly $100 million from businesses and consumers. LOW FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2023

He is a former member of the ANeSeC CTF team, one of the firsts Italian cyber wargame teams born back in 2011. Dynamic configuration served by the C2 During March 2023, the resulting binary is a.NET file packed with ConfuseEx v1.0.0.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

If you operate a cybercrime business that relies on disseminating malicious software, you probably also spend a good deal of time trying to disguise or “crypt” your malware so that it appears benign to antivirus and security products. biz , a long-running crypting service that is trusted by some of the biggest names in cybercrime.

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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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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In 2015, a former Morgan Stanley financial advisor pleaded guilty to stealing 730,000 account records from 2011 to 2014 and saving them on a personal server at home. An employee with account credentials compromised in a phishing attack or with weak or shared passwords loses data. US State of Cybercrime Survey 2016, 2017.

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Fox IT

JUNE 23, 2020

We have tracked the activities of the Evil Corp group for many years, and even though the group has changed its composition since 2011, we have been able to keep track of the group’s activities under this name. Actor Tracking. WastedLocker.

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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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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The document contained a list of pornographic sites, along with passwords for access to said sites and would then spread itself and its NSFW content by emailing the first 50 people in the victim’s contact list. The Rise of Ransomware: 2011-2022. Don’t show anyone else ;)” along with a Word file titled “list.doc.”

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