Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

February 2011: Ross Ulbricht Creates the Silk Road Marketplace “I created Silk Road because I thought the idea for the website itself had value, and that bringing Silk Road into being was the right thing to do. The hidden service gained traction in 2011 and then hit the mainstream when a Gawker article about the site was published.

Identity Theft 98

Identity Theft Cryptocurrency Government Engineering 98

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The feds allege Aqua led an elite cybercrime ring with at least 16 others who used advanced, custom-made strains of malware known as “ JabberZeus ” and “ Bugat ” (a.k.a. ” Messages to and from a money mule working for Aqua’s crew, circa May 2011. aqua: f**k, we need to find more socks for spam.

Cybercrime 229

Cybercrime Banking Small Business Accountability 229

The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

This quirk made the attack look more trustworthy and added a layer of flexibility to these scams. 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.

Ransomware 243

Ransomware Hacking Encryption Penetration Testing 243

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

It quickly became one of the biggest online shopping days of the year, and by 2011 consumers were spending $1.25 Santa’s not the only one sneaking around this season; website hackers are on-the-go and they’re bringing something even worse than lumps of coal – viruses, malware and more. billion online on the Monday after Thanksgiving.

Retail 52

Retail eCommerce Scams Phishing 52

Elie

MARCH 17, 2018

This encryption is used to escape the signatures that detect the code that Gooligan borrows from previous malware. Encrypting malicious payload is a very old malware trick that has been used by. Android malware. since at least 2011. Finally, upon payload reception, the malware runs the payload to gain root access.

Encryption 82

Encryption Malware Marketing Manufacturing 82

Elie

MARCH 17, 2018

This encryption is used to escape the signatures that detect the code that Gooligan borrows from previous malware. Encrypting malicious payload is a very old malware trick that has been used by. Android malware. since at least 2011. Finally, upon payload reception, the malware runs the payload to gain root access.

Encryption 82

Encryption Malware Marketing Manufacturing 82

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's currently easier for an expert threat actor to create malware from scratch than to spend time correcting what ChatGPT has produced.

Cybersecurity 79

Cybersecurity Artificial Intelligence Social Engineering Engineering 79

Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2020

Thus, the number of phishing attacks on cloud storages nearly doubled last year, while Internet providers have seen the three-fold increase in the number of phishing scams targeting them. Malware delivery: what’s on the menu? CERT-GIB’s findings indicate that phishing attack perpetrators have revised their so-called target pool.

Phishing 55

Phishing Spyware Banking Malware 55