Krebs on Security

JUNE 22, 2022

Stanx said he was a longtime member of several major forums, including the Russian hacker forum Antichat (since 2005), and the Russian crime forum Exploit (since April 2013). Kloster says he’s worked in many large companies in Omsk as a system administrator, web developer and photographer.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

But it does fix four dozen flaws, including several that Microsoft says will likely soon be exploited by malware or malcontents. Among those is CVE-2022-22005 , a weakness in Microsoft’s Sharepoint Server versions 2013-2019 that could be exploited by any authenticated user.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

“The command requires Windows system administrators,” Truniger’s ads explained. Semen-7907 registered at Tunngle from the Internet address 31.192.175[.]63 “I’ve been using this login since about 2013 on all the forums where I register, and I don’t always set a strong password.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Federal prosecutors in California have filed criminal charges against four employees of Adconion Direct , an email advertising firm, alleging they unlawfully hijacked vast swaths of Internet addresses and used them in large-scale spam campaigns. HOSTING IN THE WIND.

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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. 2011 said he was a system administrator and C++ coder. Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev. Image: treasury.gov. “P.S. .

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2021

It’s nice when ransomware gangs have their bitcoin stolen, malware servers shut down, or are otherwise forced to disband. After acknowledging someone had also seized their Internet servers, DarkSide announced it was folding. Indeed, some of the most destructive and costly ransomware groups are now in their third incarnation.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

With lateral movement across a victim’s IT infrastructure, threat actors can escalate privileges, spread malware , extract data , and disrupt IT services as with ransomware attacks. Also read : Best Internet Security Suites & Software. SamSam Ransomware: Malware Specializing in RDP.

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