Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2020

A threat actor has released the databases of Utah-based gun exchange and hunting sites for free on a cybercrime forum. On August 10th, a hacker has leaked online the databases of Utah-based gun exchange for free on a cybercrime forum. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

The Emotet banking trojan has been active at least since 2014, the botnet is operated by a threat actor tracked as TA542. “Emotet’s return is not coincidental, it is caused by major shifts in the overall cybercrime domain. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Emotet). ” concludes the analysis. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2020

The REvil ransomware operators made the headlines again, this time the gang claims to have hacked the Gaming Partners International (GPI). The cybercrime gang published some screenshots showing directories and files from the systems of the breached company. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 28, 2020

Asian media firm E27 suffered a security breach and hackers asked for a “donation” to provide information on the flaws they exploited in the attack. ” The Korean Hackers group recently hacked Indian video on demand giant ZEE5 attackers and threatened to sell the database on the cybercrime underground markets. .”

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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. Now, Kanishk Tagade from Quickcyber confirmed the hack of the Indian video streaming giant. . “A person or a hacking group claiming to have gained access to the network of ZEE5.com,

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 24, 2023

The plea comes just months after Emelyantsev was extradited from Bulgaria, where he told investigators, “America is looking for me because I have enormous information and they need it.” “Thanks to you, we are now developing in the field of information security and anonymity! But that action did not name any defendants.

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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 data stolen by Nikulin were available on the cybercrime underground between 2015 and 2016, they were offered for sale by multiple traders.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2020

During the first day of the Pwn2Own 2020 hacking competition, participants earned a total of $180,000 for exploits targeting Windows 10, Ubuntu Desktop and macOS. The hack exploits an improper input validation bug. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The CryptoLocker wave went into a decline in June 2014 as a result of the so-called Operation Tovar , an initiative orchestrated by law enforcement agencies from multiple countries. The newsmaking emergence of CTB-Locker in 2014 and the CryptoWall ransomware in 2015 fully demonstrated this multi-pronged shift. pharma giant ExecuPharm.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

On October 2022, Swiss police arrested Penchukov in Geneva, also known as Tank, which is one of the leaders of the JabberZeus cybercrime group. In 2012, the Ukrainian national Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov was accused of being a member of a cybercrime gang known as JabberZeus crew.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Racoon malware , Legion, Mohazo, and Racealer, is an infostealer that recently appeared in the threat landscape that is advertised in hacking forums. The Raccoon stealer is written in C++ by Russian-speaking developers that initially promoted it exclusively on Russian-speaking hacking forums. SecurityAffairs – hacking, malware).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2020

The source code of the infamous Dharma ransomware is now available for sale on two Russian-language hacking forums. The source code of one of the most profitable ransomware families, the Dharma ransomware , is up for sale on two Russian-language hacking forums. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Iran-linked APT group Pioneer Kitten is now trying to monetize its efforts by selling access to some of the networks it has hacked to other hackers. Iran-linked APT group Pioneer Kitten, also known as Fox Kitten or Parisite, is now trying to monetize its efforts by selling access to some of the networks it has hacked to other hackers.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Chinese-speaking cybercrime gang Rocke that carried out several large-scale cryptomining campaigns, has now using news tactics to evade detection. Chinese-speaking cybercrime gang Rocke, that carried out several large-scale cryptomining campaigns in past , has now using news tactics to evade detection. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Threat actors have hacked at least three Swiss universities, including the University of Basel and managed to drain employee salary transfers. According to our information, several universities in Switzerland have been affected,” explained Martina Weiss, Secretary General of the Rectors’ Conference of the Swiss Universities. .

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2020

. “While we do not store credit card information on our website, it appears that the unauthorized person gained access to the site and could have accessed the data of consumers who made payment card purchases while that data was being entered,” states the data breach notification. SecurityAffairs – TrueFire, cybercrime).

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2022

The Nigeria Police Force has arrested the suspected leader of the SilverTerrier cybercrime group as a result of an international operation. The Nigeria Police Force has arrested the suspected leader of the SilverTerrier cybercrime gang (aka TMT ) after a year-long investigation codenamed “Operation Delilah.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2020

Please vote Security Affairs for European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS [link]. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – Sodinokibi ransomware, hacking).

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 22, 2022

last week said they dismantled the “ RSOCKS ” botnet, a collection of millions of hacked devices that were sold as “proxies” to cybercriminals looking for ways to route their malicious traffic through someone else’s computer. Authorities in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands and the U.K.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

US authorities have indicted two men for hacking the exchange EtherDelta in December 2017, one of them was also accused of TalkTalk hack. US authorities have indicted two men, Elliot Gunton and Anthony Tyler Nashatka, for hacking the cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta in 2017. SecurityAffairs – TalkTalk, hacking).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 11, 2020

Avaddon ransomware operators, like other cybercrime groups, decided to launch a data leak site where publish data of victims who refuse to pay a ransom demand. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2019

US authorities have sentenced to prison three Romanian men who hacked US servers and used them in a fraud scheme that totaled more than $21 million. The stolen data were stored on the compromised servers and accessed by Dumitrescu and Costea, that later sold the on the cybercrime underground or used them in fraudulent activities.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2024

The activity of the TheMoon botnet was first spotted in 2014, and since 2017 its operators added to the code of the bot at least 6 IoT device exploits. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – Hacking, TheMoon)

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2020

that is hosting various cybercrime products and services were being sold. was shut down by the FBI today, and its suspected administrator – alleged Russian hacker Kirill Victorovich Firsov – was arrested and charged with crimes related to the hacking of U.S. companies for customers’ personal information.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2022

Agent Tesla , first discovered in late 2014, is an extremely popular “malware-as-a-service” Remote Access Trojan (RAT) tool used by threat actors to steal information such as credentials, keystrokes, clipboard data and other information from its operators’ targets. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2019

TA505 cybercrime group that operated the Dridex Trojan and Locky ransomware, has been using a new RAT dubbed SDBbot in recent attacks. Security experts at Proofpoint observed the notorious TA505 cybercrime group that has been using a new RAT dubbed SDBbot in recent attacks. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The Wall Street Market marketplace was considered one of the most important points of aggregation in the cybercrime underground for trading in cocaine, heroin, cannabis and amphetamines as well as digital goods (i.e. ” the Head of Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) , Edvardas Šileris said. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The government agencies receive information about imminent attacks, threat actors are using the TrickBot botnet to deliver the infamous ransomware to the infected systems. “CISA, FBI, and HHS have credible information of an increased and imminent cybercrime threat to U.S. SecurityAffairs – hacking, ransomware).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The analysis of a malicious email revealed a possible raising interest of the TA505 cybercrime gang in system integrator companies. The infrastructure used in the attacks suggests the involvement of the cybercrime group TA505. TA505 hacking group has been active since 2014 focusing on Retail and banking sectors.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Alexander Vinnik allegedly headed the Bitcoin exchange BTC-e, he is charged with different hacking crimes in Russia, France, and the United States. Gox was the biggest Bitcoin exchange at the time of the shut down in 2014 that occurred after the platform was the victim of a series of cyber heists for a total of $375 million in Bitcoin.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

The Maze cybercrime gang is shutting down its operations, it was considered one of the most prominent and active ransomware crew since it began operating in May 2019. The gang was the first to introduce a double-extortion model in the cybercrime landscape at the end of 2019. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Maze). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2024

The threat actors shared a portion of the stolen data with TechCrunch as proof of the hack, it includes records on current and former government officials, diplomats, and politically exposed people. In June 2016, security researcher Chris Vickery found a copy of the World-Check database dated 2014 that was accidentally exposed online.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 12, 2019

The English rock Radiohead released 18-hour trove of private recordings from their 1997 album “OK Computer” in response to the recent hack. The group is also offering for sale downloads of an album of the 18 hacked MiniDiscs for £18 and donating the proceeds to the Extinction Rebellion environmental campaign group.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2020

million users who stayed at MGM Resorts hotels have been published on a hacking forum this week. “The new finding came to light over the weekend after a hacker put up for sale the hotel’s data in an ad published on a dark web cybercrime marketplace.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2021

Ticketmaster agreed to pay a $10 million fine for hacking into the computer system of the startup rival CrowdSurge. “In early May 2014, a senior executive of Live Nation (Corporate Officer-1) asked Zaidi and others how Ticketmaster’s presale online offering compared with the Toolbox. SecurityAffairs – hacking, TicketMaster).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The OLB bank confirmed that the incident is not the result of a data breach, it also speculates the involvement of an “organized cybercrime involving counterfeit cards and terminals.” “Nor has any account or card data been hacked either at Mastercard, OLB or at a third party. SecurityAffairs – OLB bank, cybercrime).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The KPOT Stealer was written in C/C++, it was offered in the cybercrime underground as a Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS). The malware communicates with the C2 infrastrcuture via HTTP requests and supports multiple commands to steal any kind of information from the infected systems. SecurityAffairs – hacking, malware).

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