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This Service Helps Malware Authors Fix Flaws in their Code

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is cybercrime forum. “We can examine your (or not exactly your) PHP code for vulnerabilities and backdoors,” reads his offering on several prominent Russian cybercrime forums. ” From 2013 to 2016, upO was a major player on Exploit[.]in The cybercrime actor “upO” on Exploit[.]in

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U.S. Indicts 2 Top Russian Hackers, Sanctions Cryptex

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The United States today unveiled sanctions and indictments against the alleged proprietor of Joker’s Stash , a now-defunct cybercrime store that peddled tens of millions of payment cards stolen in some of the largest data breaches of the past decade. A screenshot of a website reviewing PM2BTC.

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Who’s Behind the SWAT USA Reshipping Service?

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Last week, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that one of the largest cybercrime services for laundering stolen merchandise was hacked recently, exposing its internal operations, finances and organizational structure. Cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 says Fearlless first registered on Verified in February 2013. As detailed in this Nov.

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Giving a Face to the Malware Proxy Service ‘Faceless’

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” MRMURZA Faceless is a project from MrMurza , a particularly talkative member of more than a dozen Russian-language cybercrime forums over the past decade. MrMurza’s Faceless advertised on the Russian-language cybercrime forum ProCrd. In 2013, U.S. Image: Darkbeast/Ke-la.com.

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Local Networks Go Global When Domain Names Collide

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But Caturegli said ransomware gangs and other cybercrime groups could siphon huge volumes of Microsoft Windows credentials from quite a few companies with just a small up-front investment. ” If we ever learn that cybercrime groups are using namespace collisions to launch ransomware attacks, nobody can say they weren’t warned. .”

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How Do You Fight a $12B Fraud Problem? One Scammer at a Time

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According to the most recent statistics from the FBI ‘s Internet Crime Complaint Center , the most costly form of cybercrime stems from a complex type of fraud known as the “ B usiness E mail C ompromise” or BEC scam. The FBI says BEC scams netted thieves more than $12 billion between 2013 and 2018.

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KrebsOnSecurity in New Netflix Series on Cybercrime

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They didn’t specify what additional topics the series would scrutinize, but Netflix’s teaser for the show suggests it concerns cybercrimes that result in deadly, real-world kinetic attacks. “What starts out virtual can get real all too quickly — and when the web is worldwide, so are the consequences.”