Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2019

Researchers discovered a dump containing 6,840,339 records associated with StockX user accounts that surfaced in the cybercrime underground. A threat actor stole details of 6 million users, the stolen data includes user names, email addresses, addresses, shoe size, purchase history, and encrypted passwords (salted MD5).

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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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Malwarebytes

JULY 25, 2022

Word is spreading of a compromise claimed to have accessed around 69 million user accounts. Back in 2014, “tens of millions” of Neopets accounts were said to have been traded on underground forums. In 2020, there were claims of ways to potentially gain access to user accounts. Neopets also addressed this.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2020

Nintendo has disconnected the NNID legacy login system from main Nintendo profiles after it has discovered a massive account hijacking campaign. The gaming giant Nintendo announced that hackers gained accessed at least 160,000 user accounts as part of an account hijacking campaign since early April. ” reported ZDNet.

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Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2020

employee who hacked into the accounts of thousands of users was sentenced to five years of probation. accounts back in 2018. The man accessed the users’ victim accounts, using cracked passwords, but in some cases, he also used internal Yahoo! systems for access to the accounts. A former Yahoo!

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Cybercriminals offered for sale private messages from at least 81,000 Facebook accounts claiming of being in possession of data from 120 million accounts. Crooks are offering for sale Criminals are selling the private messages of 81,000 hacked Facebook accounts for 10 cents per account. ” states the BBC.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Authorities in the United States and United Kingdom today levied financial sanctions against seven men accused of operating “ Trickbot ,” a cybercrime-as-a-service platform based in Russia that has enabled countless ransomware attacks and bank account takeovers since its debut in 2016. companies and government entities.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 29, 2023

Kislitsin is accused of hacking into the now-defunct social networking site Formspring in 2012, and conspiring with another Russian man convicted of stealing tens of millions of usernames and passwords from LinkedIn and Dropbox that same year. Nikulin is currently serving a seven-year sentence in the U.S. prison system.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

If you operate a cybercrime business that relies on disseminating malicious software, you probably also spend a good deal of time trying to disguise or “crypt” your malware so that it appears benign to antivirus and security products. biz , a long-running crypting service that is trusted by some of the biggest names in cybercrime.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2020

Last week, Open Exchange Rates disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal information and hashed passwords for customers of its API service. Last week, the currency data provider Open Exchange Rates has disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal information and salted and hashed passwords for customers of its API service.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

com , a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the owner of Defiant Tech, a 32-year-old Ontario man named Jordan Evan Bloom , was hired in late 2014 as a developer for the marital infidelity site AshleyMadison.com.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 28, 2020

” “We use Facebook and LinkedIn for account login and do not store any passwords on our system. If you use the legacy email and password login, your passwords are encrypted, but we highly encourage that you change it. Members of the E27 are recommended to change their password as soon as possible.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2020

The CryptoCore group, aks Crypto-gang, “Dangerous Password”, and “Leery Turtle” has been active since 2018. “While the group’s key infiltration vector to the exchange is usually through spear-phishing against the corporate network, the executives’ personal email accounts are the first to be targeted.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2020

that is hosting various cybercrime products and services were being sold. which is a Shopify-like platform that has been hosting hundreds of online shops used for the sale of hacked accounts and stolen user data. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Feds reviewed approximately 250 DEER.IO

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2020

European authorities dismantled two cybercrime organizations responsible for stealing millions through SIM hijacking. European authorities managed to dismantle the operations of two cybercrime gangs responsible for stealing millions through SIM hijacking. The authorities arrested tens of individuals in Spain and Romania. .

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2020

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. The Russian man stole roughly 117 million user records, including usernames, passwords, and emails. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 7, 2020

The Indian video on demand giant ZEE5 has been hacked, attackers are threatening to sell the database on the cybercrime underground markets. In early April, the researcher Ax Sharma published a post on Medium about a dataset with some 1,023 compromised ZEE5 Premium accounts for an online streaming service. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2020

which is a Shopify-like platform that has been hosting hundreds of online shops used for the sale of hacked accounts and stolen user data. international financial and corporate data, Personally Identifiable Information (PII), and compromised user accounts from many U.S. store ACCOUNTS-MARKET. storefront.” ” The DEER.IO

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2020

To reassure you, the database did not include any passwords or financial details, such as bank account number or credit card information.” Aerial Direct confirmed that no passwords or financial information accessed by hackers. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The Russian man stole roughly 117 million user records, including usernames, passwords, and emails. Between May 14, 2012 and July 25, 2012, Nikulin obtained the records belonging 68 million Dropbox users containing usernames, emails, and hashed passwords. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2020

The man is known in the cybercrime underground for selling billions of stolen credentials. Early last year, it caught the attention of global cybersecurity experts by posting on one of the forums the sale of a database with 773 million e-mail addresses and 21 million unique passwords.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Exposed personal information includes names and contact information, usernames, passwords, and answers to security questions associated with online accounts. ” According to the NMG, it has no evidence that Bergdorf Goodman or Horchow online customer accounts were affected. .” The security breach impacted 4.6

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

The phishing campaign was discovered earlier November, attackers used convincing emails to trick Spotify users into providing their account credentials. The messages include a link that points to phishing websites that prompt users into entering their username and password. giving the attacker the ability to hijack the account.”

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 28, 2021

After bringing down Emotet, the FBI asked Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) if there was a way to alert individuals and organizations that their accounts were affected. Change your email account password. It was first discovered in 2014 as a banking trojan, and quickly evolved to become a perfect solution for cybercriminals anywhere.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2019

Million accounts back in April 2018. The security breach occurred in April 2018 and exposed account information for approximately 1.1 The notice issued by the service Have I Been Pwned states that 1,131,229 accounts from Emuparadise forums were exposed in an incident occurred in April 2018. million Emuparadise forum members.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2020

According to the report issued by the CERT-FR, operators behind the Pysa ransomware launched brute-force attacks against management consoles and Active Directory accounts. “Brute force connection attempts on a supervisory console have been observed, as well as on several ACTIVE DIRECTORY accounts. ” continues the alert.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2020

. ” “We cannot state with certainty that your data was specifically accessed, however you should know that the information that was potentially subject to unauthorised access includes your name, address, payment card account number, card expiration date and security code.”. SecurityAffairs – TrueFire, cybercrime).

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Security Affairs

JULY 26, 2020

The company is also aware that a threat actor is attempting to sell the Dave user records in the cybercrime underground, it hired security firm CrowdStrike to investigate the security breach. Dave is notifying customers of the security breach, it also forced a password reset in response to the incident. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2020

An attacker could also exploit the flaw to disable security features in the Netlogon authentication process and change a computer’s password on the domain controller’s Active Directory. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

According to security experts at Fox-IT, the ransomware attack is compatible with other attacks carried out by the TA505 cybercrime gang. TA505 hacking group has been active since 2014 focusing on Retail and banking sectors. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2020

Microsoft is warning of human-operated ransomware, this kind of attack against businesses is becoming popular in the cybercrime ecosystem. Human-operated ransomware is a technique usually employed in nation-state attacks that is becoming very popular in the cybercrime ecosystem. ” continues Microsoft. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2019

In December 2017, the Canadian man Jordan Evan Bloom (27) was charged with data leak of 3 billion hacked accounts, the man was running a website to collect personal data and login credentials from the victims. LeakedSource was also cracking the associated passwords when it was possible. SecurityAffairs – cybercrime, LeakedSource).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The banking trojan is able to record keystrokes, to steal passwords stored on the PC, and take screenshots and videos from the victims’ machine. The Neverquest malware is able to log in to the victim’s online banking account and perform fraudulent transactions. LISOV had administrative-level access to those computer servers.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2020

As part of the regular monitoring of cybercrime forums and markets in the deep-web and darkweb , Cyble researchers spotted a threat actor named as R3dr0x who leaked (BEML) internal documents. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” reads the post published by Cyble. .

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

FBI recommends using passphrases instead of complex passwords. Raccoon Malware, a success case in the cybercrime ecosystem. Slickwraps discloses data leak that impacted 850,000 user accounts. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Lampion malware v2 February 2020. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

.” While CLOP as a money making collective is a fairly young organization, security experts say CLOP members hail from a group of Threat Actors (TA) known as “TA505,” which MITRE’s ATT&CK database says is a financially motivated cybercrime group that has been active since at least 2014.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2019

Cyber criminals have exploited an unproperly implemented password reset process in 7-Eleven to make unwanted charges on 900 customers’ accounts. Crooks targeted approximately 900 customers the company, it has been estimated that they charged a total of ¥55 million ($510,000) on the 7pay app accounts. 7-Eleven Inc.

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