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Hacker deposited $1M in a popular cybercrime marketplace to buy zero-day exploits

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Bitcoins on one of the cybercrime forums, he aims at purchasing zero-day exploits from other forum members. Bitcoins on one of the cybercrime forums with the intent to purchase zero-day Exploits from other forum members, researchers from threat intelligence firm Cyble. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime).

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Ukrainian national faces up to 20 years in prison for his role in Zeus, IcedID malware schemes

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Ukrainian national Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov has pleaded guilty to his key roles in the Zeus and IcedID malware operations. Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov was a leader of two prolific malware groups that infected thousands of computers with malicious software.

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Tank, the leader of the Zeus cybercrime gang, was arrested by the Swiss police

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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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Yevgeniy Nikulin, Russian hacker behind Dropbox and LinkedIn hacks found guilty

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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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Don’t trust links with known domains: BMW affected by redirect vulnerability

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They were used to access the internal workplace systems for BMW dealers and could have been useful to attackers for spear-phishing campaigns or malware distribution. SAP redirect vulnerability is a security issue that affects web application servers for SAP products (SAP NetWeaver Application Server Java).

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Russian author of NeverQuest banking malware gets 4 Years in U.S. Prison

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The Russian hacker who created and used Neverquest banking malware has finally been sentenced to 4 years in prison by a US District Court. The Russian hacker was suspected of being the author of the Neverquest malware , aka Vawtrak malware, and the person who administrated the control infrastructure. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Law enforcement seized the website selling the NetWire RAT and arrested a Croatian man

Security Affairs

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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