Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

and Australia in sanctioning and charging a Russian man named Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev as the leader of the infamous LockBit ransomware group. 2011 said he was a system administrator and C++ coder. “Installing SpyEYE, ZeuS, any DDoS and spam admin panels,” NeroWolfe wrote. “P.S. The code is written in C.”

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2018

Related: Why cryptojacking is more insidious than ransomware. However, closer inspection reveals how cryptojacking morphed out of the ransomware plague of 2015 and 2016. Here are excerpts edited for clarity and length: LW: Is there a connection between cryptojacking and ransomware? It was mostly a consumer attack. It was insane.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2018

Ramnit is one of the most popular banking malware families in existence today, it was first spotted in 2010 as a worm, in 2011, its authors improved it starting from the leaked Zeus source code turning the malware into a banking Trojan. DDoS attacks, ransomware-based campaigns, cryptocurrency mining campaigns).

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Much of my reporting on Vrublevsky’s cybercrime empire came from several years worth of internal ChronoPay emails and documents that were leaked online in 2010 and 2011. me , which included a copyright credit to “Hot Spot 2011.” Pavel Vrublevsky’s former Facebook profile photo.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 21, 2021

In 2011, the source code for ZeuS 2.0.8.9 Banking trojans haven’t gone away, but in recent years their activity has been eclipsed by an epidemic of ransomware. Recently though, major ransomware operators have taken to stealing victims’ data before encrypting it, so they can threaten to leak it. was leaked.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Ransomware, for example, usually doesn’t self-replicate. In July 2001, the Code Red Worm attempted to subject the entire Internet to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. The Rise of Ransomware: 2011-2022. The 2010s and early 2020s have been marked by an increased prevalence in ransomware attacks.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

This does not mean actors are not actively seeking to up their technological impact, including aggressively pursuing ransomware methods. Simultaneously, however, we have seen some indication that Iran is conducting more aggressive operations designed to disrupt their target's networks and day-to-day operations, including through ransomware.".

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