Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.] LeakedSource was advertised on a number of popular cybercrime forums as a service that could help hackers break into valuable or high-profile accounts. Abusewith[.]us

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2020

The Russian hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin found guilty for LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring data breach back in 2012 and the sale of their users’ data. A jury found Russian hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin guilty for the hack of LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring back in 2012 and for the sale of the stolen data on cybercrime black marketplaces.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

A suspected leader of the Zeus cybercrime gang, Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov (aka Tank), was arrested by Swiss police. Swiss police last month arrested in Geneva Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov (40), also known as Tank, which is one of the leaders of the JabberZeus cybercrime group. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Zeus).

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

A notorious hacker convicted of perpetrating tens of thousands of cybercrimes, Kivimäki had been in hiding since October 2022, when he failed to show up in court and Finland issued an international warrant for his arrest. The DDoS-for-hire service allegedly operated by Kivimäki in 2012. Kivimäki was 15 years old at the time.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

One of Megatraffer’s ads on an English-language cybercrime forum. Megatraffer has continued to offer their code-signing services across more than a half-dozen other Russian-language cybercrime forums, mostly in the form of sporadically available EV and non-EV code-signing certificates from major vendors like Thawte and Comodo.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Russian national Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin was sentenced to 88 months in prison for hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring in 2012. The Russian national Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin was sentenced to 88 months in prison in the United States for hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring in 2012.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

In 2020, the United States brought charges against four men accused of building a bulletproof hosting empire that once dominated the Russian cybercrime industry and supported multiple organized cybercrime groups. From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

On October 2022, Swiss police arrested Penchukov in Geneva, also known as Tank, which is one of the leaders of the JabberZeus cybercrime group. In 2012, the Ukrainian national Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov was accused of being a member of a cybercrime gang known as JabberZeus crew.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2021

There is a now-dormant Myspace account for a Matthew Philbert from Orleans, a suburb of Ottawa, Ontario. The information tied to the Myspace account matches the age and town of the defendant. The Myspace account was registered under the nickname “ Darkcloudowner ,” and to the email address dark_cl0ud6@hotmail.com.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Since the beginning of 2020, Babam has set up numerous auctions on the Russian-language cybercrime forum Exploit , mainly selling virtual private networking (VPN) credentials stolen from various companies. Verified was hacked at least twice in the past five years, and its user database posted online. com (2017). com and wwwpexpay[.]com.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2021

The US Department of Justice seized the servers and domains of the popular cybercrime marketplace SlilPP. “Slilpp buyers subsequently used those login credentials to conduct unauthorized transactions (such as wire transfers) from the related accounts. . SecurityAffairs – hacking, SlilPP marketplace). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 26, 2020

Ngo got his treasure trove of consumer data by hacking and social engineering his way into a string of major data brokers. Ngo’s businesses enabled an entire generation of cybercriminals to commit an estimated $1 billion worth of new account fraud , and to sully the credit histories of countless Americans in the process.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2023

The NetWire Remote Access Trojan (RAT) is available for sale on cybercrime forums since 2012, it allows operators to steal sensitive data from the infected systems. DomainTools further shows this email address was used to register one other domain in 2012: wwlabshosting[.]com, ” reads the press release published DoJ.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In July, Anonymous Sudan announced it had stolen credentials for 30 million customer accounts. In September, Anonymous Sudan launched a DDoS attack against Telegram after the company suspended the account of the group. Skynet was first discovered in 2012 and has since grown to become one of the largest botnets in the world.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2022

The ransomware gang Lockbit claims to have hacked the Italian Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate) and added the government agency to the list of victims reported on its dark web leak site. It has its own statute and specific regulations governing administration and accounting. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Lockbit).

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

These services can be used in a legitimate manner for several business purposes — such as price comparisons or sales intelligence — but they are massively abused for hiding cybercrime activity because they can make it difficult to trace malicious traffic to its original source. A cached copy of flashupdate[.]net

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Altogether, Meduza makes a great competitor to Azorult , Redline , Racoon , and Vidar Stealer used by cybercriminals for account takeover (ATO), online-banking theft, and financial fraud. Presently, Meduza password stealer supports Windows Server 2012/2016/2019/2022 and Windows 10/11.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The Neverquest malware is able to log in to the victim’s online banking account and perform fraudulent transactions. Lisov operated the infrastructure behind the NeverQuest malware between June 2012 and January 2015, the managed a network of servers containing lists of millions of stolen login credentials.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Ministry of Internal Affairs announced that Belarusian police have seized and shutdown XakFor, one of the largest hacking forums on the internet. net), a popular hacking forum a place frequented by hackers, malware authors, scammers and cybercriminals. Belarusian police have seized the servers of XakFor (xakfor[.]net),

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The man has pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit computer hacking in Manhattan Federal Court, he faces a sentence of up to five years in prison. “ NeverQuest has been responsible for millions of dollars’ worth of attempts by hackers to steal money out of victims’ bank accounts. “Geoffrey S. Sweeney Jr.,

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The Adwind RAT was first discovered early 2012, the experts dubbed it Frutas RAT and later it was identified with other names, Unrecom RAT (February 2014), AlienSpy (October 2014), and recently JSocket RAT (June 2015). Netskope researchers discovered 20 malware samples hosted using compromised user accounts of the Australian ISP Westnet.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

These developments would have, over the next decade or so, steadily and materially reduced society’s general exposure to cybercrime and online privacy abuses. Ransomware hacking groups extorted at least $144.35 Then COVID-19 came along and obliterated societal norms and standard business practices. million from U.S.

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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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

This trend aimed at reducing threats from banking Trojans for PCs has been continuing in Russia since 2012. At present, only three criminal groups— Buhtrap2 , RTM , and Toplel —steal money from the accounts of legal entities in Russia. They account for 80% of all financial phishing sites. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2018

Experts uncovered a money laundering ring that leverages fake Apple accounts and gaming profiles to make transactions with stolen payment cards. Crooks used a special tool to create iOS accounts using valid emails accounts, then they associated with the accounts the stolen payment cards. Offered by. Android Users.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2019

Necurs botnet is currently the second largest spam botnet , it has been active since at least 2012 and was involved in massive campaigns spreading malware such as the Locky ransomware , the Scarab ransomware , and the Dridex banking Trojan. SecurityAffairs – Necurs botnet, hacking). ” continues the blog post. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

One of the first hacks to get widespread public attention in the United States and Canada occurred on the night of April 27, 1986. Related: Original HBO Hack ]. To some, the ability to hack a satellite broadcast was unsettling. Damages: sensitive leaked account information. Damages: Leaked account information.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Recently security the security expert researcher Sam Curry warned of vulnerabilities in mobile apps that exposed Hyundai and Genesis car models after 2012 to remote attacks. Police can access information from car-connected phones and online accounts without the warrant typically required.” ” continues Forbes.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The man funded nine fraudulent accounts with an initial deposit of 200 to 2,000 bitcoin and then triggered 140 withdrawal transactions in rapid succession. “JAMES ZHONG pled guilty to committing wire fraud in September 2012 when he unlawfully obtained over 50,000 Bitcoin from the Silk Road dark web internet marketplace. .

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

The man was arrested in Georgia at the request of US authorities, he faces 10 charges on multiple conspiracy counts, including wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and four counts of computer hacking. Andrei Tyurin is accused of being the mastermind of the organization that targeted the US financial institution from 2012 to mid-2015.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 13, 2023

[This is Part II of a story published here last week on reporting that went into a new Hulu documentary series on the 2015 Ashley Madison hack.] on Sunday, July 19, when I received a message through the contact form on KrebsOnSecurity.com that the marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com had been hacked. It was around 9 p.m.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

One of the cybercrime underground’s more active sellers of Social Security numbers, background and credit reports has been pulling data from hacked accounts at the U.S. REAL POLICE, FAKE EDRS JackieChan also sells access to hacked email accounts belonging to law enforcement personnel in the United States and abroad.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The stolen cookies can be used later to remotely access victims’ email accounts. These are new variants of the same hacking tools that we first reported in August 2019, and later detailed again in June 2021. StrongyPity (aka PROMETHIUM) is a Turkish-speaking threat actor known to have been active since at least 2012.

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SecureList

JULY 28, 2021

In particular, Gafgyt’s authors copied its implementation of various DDoS methods, such as TCP, UDP and HTTP flooding, as well as its brute-force functionality for hacking IoT devices via the Telnet protocol. Having been charged, the hacktivist failed to appear at a court hearing pending trial in 2012. Quarter trends.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Recent news articles have all been talking about the massive Russian cyberattack against the United States, but that’s wrong on two accounts. Sometime before March, hackers working for the Russian SVR — previously known as the KGB — hacked into SolarWinds and slipped a backdoor into an Orion software update. (We

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

We can learn a lot from the cybercrime of the past…the history of cybercrime is a glimpse into what we can expect in the future. In the past 18 months, we’ve experienced the beginning of an era that has seen cybersecurity and cybercrime at the center of it all. Dateline Cybercrime . Robert Herjavec.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 5, 2023

Specifically, the advisory highlights the utilization of social engineering techniques by DPRK state-sponsored cyber actors, with a focus on their hacking activities targeting think tanks, academia, and media organizations worldwide. At the forefront of these cyber threats is a group known as Kimusky.

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