Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Prosecutors say Vasinskyi was involved in a number of REvil ransomware attacks, including the July 2021 attack against Kaseya , Miami-based company whose products help system administrators manage large networks remotely. The biggest is password re-use by cybercriminals (yes, crooks are lazy, too). 3 was Lublin, Poland.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

.” New York City-based cyber intelligence firm Flashpoint said the Snatch ransomware group was created in 2018, based on Truniger’s recruitment both on Russian language cybercrime forums and public Russian programming boards. “The command requires Windows system administrators,” Truniger’s ads explained.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

This post examines the activities of Khoroshev’s many alter egos on the cybercrime forums, and tracks the career of a gifted malware author who has written and sold malicious code for the past 14 years. used the password 225948. was used by a Russian-speaking member called Pin on the English-language cybercrime forum Opensc.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Brian Krebs is an independent investigative reporter known for his coverage of technology, malware , data breaches , and cybercrime developments. Normally account take overs are due to insecure passwords or recovery options, this is definitely something different. Brian Krebs | @briankrebs. Eugene Kaspersky | @e_kaspersky.

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