Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Login details of more than 36 million Poshmark accounts are available for sale in the cybercrime underground. The company discovered unauthorized access to its servers, the intruders stole personal information of the users, including usernames , hashed passwords, first and last names, gender information, and city of residenc.

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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. Now a dump containing 6,840,339 unique StockX user accounts surfaced in the cybercrime underground. How to check if your account has been compromised? Pierluigi Paganini.

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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

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

OCTOBER 5, 2020

According to the SonntagsZeitung , the Basel public prosecutor’s office confirmed that hackers compromised the systems at the universities, then the threat actors hijacked the employee salary transfers by changing the beneficiaries’ accounts. It added that part of the misappropriated funds was now in foreign accounts.”

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Alexei Burkov, seated second from right, attends a hearing in Jerusalem in 2015. Burkov calls himself a specialist in information security and denies having committed the crimes for which he’s been charged. A screen shot from the Mazafaka cybercrime forum, circa 2011. Andrei Shirokov / Tass via Getty Images.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2019

Experts discovered security flaws in EA Games’ login process that could allow an attacker to take over EA gamers’ accounts and steal sensitive data. Experts pointed out that over 300 million players are at risk, stolen gaming credentials are a valuable commodity in the cybercrime underground.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2022

A Ukrainian man was sentenced in the US to 5 years in prison for his criminal activity in the cybercrime group FIN7. for high-level hacking activity in the cybercrime group FIN7 (aka Carbanak Group and the Navigator Group). Iarmak is the third member of the FIN7 cybercrime group to be sentenced in the U.S. in May 2020.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The FBI’s Internal Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released the FBI 2019 Internet Crime Report , a document that outlines cybercrime trends over the past year. The figure that most of all capture our attention is that victims of cybercrime activities lost $3.5 Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2022

The seizure of the Hydra Market is the result of an international investigation conducted by the Central Office for Combating Cybercrime (ZIT) in partnership with U.S. Hydra was a top Russian Darknet market famous among Russian speaking users that have been active since 2015. law enforcement authorities since August 2021.

Marketing 85

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2020

. “Comprised of several layers of members mainly from Latvia, Georgia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Belgium, the QQAAZZ network opened and maintained hundreds of corporate and personal bank accounts at financial institutions throughout the world to receive money from cybercriminals who stole it from accounts of victims.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The Carbanak gang was first discovered by Kaspersky Lab in 2015, the group has stolen at least $300 million from 100 financial institutions. Imposters in November included the CRM platform HubSpot, data management software Veeam, and account tool Xero.”

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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

APRIL 22, 2024

Compromised data vary by individuals and organizations, it includes names, passport numbers, Social Security numbers, online crypto account identifiers and bank account numbers, and more. 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

MARCH 26, 2020

that is hosting various cybercrime products and services were being sold. companies for customers’ personal information.” 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. Social Security Numbers, dates of birth, and victim addresses.

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Cybercrime Advertising Hacking Accountability 109

Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2020

A cybercrime gang focused on Business Email Compromise (BEC) has started using coronavirus-themed scam emails in its attacks. The researchers received a coronavirus-themed scam email that attempted to trick victims into using a different bank account for the payment due to the COVID-19 outbreak. A change of the bank account).

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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. Nikulin also hacked into an employee account of a Formspring engineer and used it to access the company network between June 13, 2012, and June 29, 2012.

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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.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2022

The seizure of the Hydra Market is the result of an international investigation conducted by the Central Office for Combating Cybercrime (ZIT) in partnership with U.S. Hydra was a top Russian Darknet market famous among Russian-speaking users that have been active since 2015. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime). The post U.S.

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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

AUGUST 18, 2020

Ukrainian authorities arrested the members of a cybercrime gang who ran 20 cryptocurrency exchanges involved in money laundering. Police in Ukraine announced the arrest of the members of a cybercrime gang composed of three individuals who ran 20 cryptocurrency exchanges used in money laundering activities. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The scripts developed by the cyber criminal were used to parse log data collected from botnet and searched for personally identifiable information (PII) and account credentials. In some cases, the man manually chacked the stolen information. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2023

“A number of investigations to identify additional individuals behind dark web accounts are still ongoing. The seizure of the Hydra Market is the result of an international investigation conducted by the Central Office for Combating Cybercrime (ZIT) in partnership with U.S. ” continues the press release.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Justice Department announced that three members of the cybercrime group behind the GozNym banking Trojan have been sentenced to prison. Justice Department announced that three members of the cybercrime group behind the GozNym banking Trojan have been sentenced to prison. Brady announced today.”

Computers and Electronics 57

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

KPOT Stealer is a “stealer” malware that focuses on exfiltrating account information and other data from web browsers, instant messengers, email, VPN, RDP, FTP, cryptocurrency, and gaming software. The KPOT Stealer was written in C/C++, it was offered in the cybercrime underground as a Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2020

American citizens lost over $6,000,000 due to these individuals’ BEC fraud schemes, in which they impersonated business executives and requested and received wire transfers from legitimate business accounts.” Between early 2015 and September 2016, Uzuh and an accomplice engaged in BEC fraud targeting over 100 businesses in a single.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2023

“Considering that downloading the app is conditional on having an account and new account registration was not possible for us, we believe that potential victims were specifically targeted.” The BingeChat campaign is still ongoing and is active since August 2022, while the campaign using Chatico is no longer active.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Cybercrime is a prolific business, criminal organizations continues to make profits with illegal activities in the cyberspace, but police are ready to contrast them. With this resource, it was possible to buy activated accounts in large numbers to various mail resources, social networks, payment systems and more. “Cyber ??

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MARCH 16, 2020

In response to the incident, Open Exchange Rates has forced a password reset for all accounts created before March 2, 2020. Open Exchange Rates recommends users to generate new API IDs using the account dashboard to access the service. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

MAY 16, 2019

. “An unprecedented, international law enforcement operation has dismantled a complex, globally operating and organised cybercrime network.” ” The GozNym banking malware was first spotted in April 2015 by researchers from the IBM X-Force Research, it combines the best features of Gozi ISFB and Nymaim malware.

Banking 67

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Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2023

A new malware, dubbed Domino, developed by the FIN7 cybercrime group has been used by the now-defunct Conti ransomware gang. IBM Security X-Force researchers recently discovered a new malware family, called Domino, which was created by developers associated with the FIN7 cybercriminal group (tracked by X-Force as ITG14).

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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

JUNE 28, 2020

The company sent a security breach notification via email to its users. ” “We use Facebook and LinkedIn for account login and do not store any passwords on our system. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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OCTOBER 2, 2019

. “It was brought to our attention that personal information, related to your American Express Card account listed above, may have been wrongfully accessed by one of our employees in an attempt to conduct fraudulent activity, including potentially opening accounts at other financial institutions.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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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

JANUARY 19, 2024

In 2015, the company controlled 55% of the U.S. ” reads a Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on January 18, 2024. ” The company pointed out that it does not store Social Security numbers and financial information in its systems. million customers.

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2019

The LeakedSource website was launched in late 2015, in January 2017 the popular data breach notification website has been raided by feds. “I am immensely proud of this outcome as combatting cybercrime is an operational priority for us.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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