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. The leaked data includes login names, hashed passwords, and email addresses.

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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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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2022

The illegal dark web marketplace RaidForums has been shut down and its infrastructure seized as a result of the international law enforcement Operation TOURNIQUET coordinated by Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre. 1, 2015, and on or about Jan. ” RaidForums was launched in 2015, its community reached over half a million users.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

More commonly, that access is purchased from a cybercriminal broker who specializes in acquiring remote access credentials — such as usernames and passwords needed to remotely connect to the target’s network. Babam has authored more than 270 posts since joining Exploit in 2015, including dozens of sales threads.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 3, 2024

Roughly nine years ago, KrebsOnSecurity profiled a Pakistan-based cybercrime group called “ The Manipulaters ,” a sprawling web hosting network of phishing and spam delivery platforms. Manipulaters advertisement for “Office 365 Private Page with Antibot” phishing kit sold on the domain heartsender,com.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2023

government this week put a $10 million bounty on the head of a Russian man who for the past 18 years operated Try2Check , one of the cybercrime underground’s most trusted services for checking the validity of stolen credit card data. This and other “nordia@” emails shared a password: “ anna59.”

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In a 2,200-page report, Finnish authorities laid out how they connected the extortion spree to Kivimäki, a notorious hacker who was convicted in 2015 of perpetrating tens of thousands of cybercrimes, including data breaches, payment fraud, operating a botnet and calling in bomb threats.

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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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

And this goes beyond usernames and passwords to information that can get them immediate financial gain like credit card information and cryptocurrency wallets.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” concludes CyberArk. ” Additional technical details about the malware.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2019

Researchers at AT&T Alien Labs have spotted a malware called Xwo that is actively scanning the Internet for exposed web services and default passwords. Experts at AT&T Alien Labs discovered a new piece of malware called Xwo that is actively scanning the Internet for exposed web services and default passwords.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

In May 2015, KrebsOnSecurity briefly profiled “ The Manipulaters ,” the name chosen by a prolific cybercrime group based in Pakistan that was very publicly selling spam tools and a range of services for crafting, hosting and deploying malicious email. One of several current Fudtools sites run by The Manipulaters.

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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

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

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

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

A successful new operation was announced by Europol, it announced to have dismantled the global organized cybercrime ring behind Imminent Monitor RAT. ” The law enforcement speculates hackers using the hacking tool to steal personal details, passwords, private photographs, video footage, and data from tens of thousands of victims.

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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. 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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SecureWorld News

MARCH 27, 2023

Alon Gal, Co-Founder and CTO at cybercrime intelligence company Hudson Rock, told The Cyber Express: "Teaching cybersecurity to K-12 students is incredibly important.

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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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2024

In 2015, the company controlled 55% of the U.S. VF Corp also added that it has found no evidence that customer passwords were stolen. American global apparel and footwear company VF Corp revealed that the December data breach impacted 35.5 million customers.

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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. The huge trove of data contains data, recent transactions, passwords, emails, mobile numbers, email addresses, messages, etc. ” reads the post published by the expert. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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 -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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

AUGUST 8, 2022

While LogoKit is known for a while in the underground, at least since 2015, the cybercrime group behind it is constantly leveraging new tactics. The victim’s email is then auto filled in the email or username field which consequently tricks them into feeling they’ve previously logged in before.

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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

MARCH 26, 2020

that is hosting various cybercrime products and services were being sold. store used by hackers to offer for sale thousands of compromised accounts, including gamer accounts and PII files containing user names, passwords, U.S. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. LeakedSource was also cracking the associated passwords when it was possible. “I am immensely proud of this outcome as combatting cybercrime is an operational priority for us.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The recent Emotet campaign uses spam messages with password-protected attachments, experts noticed a decline in infections over the weekend, a behavior already observed in the past. Emotet joined the password-protected attachment bandwagon with a campaign starting Friday. ” states the Italian CSIRT’s alert.

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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. The spear-phishing messages attempt to trick the victims into installing malware on their computer that allows attacker to steal or obtain access to a password manager account.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The Lokibot malware has been active since 2015, it is an infostealer that was involved in many malspam campaigns aimed at harvest credentials from web browsers, email clients, admin tools and that was also used to target cryptocoin-wallet owners. If these services are required, use strong passwords or Active Directory authentication.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2020

Once opened the file, the Lokibot infection starts, the malware steals sensitive information (a variety of credentials, including FTP credentials, stored email passwords, passwords stored in the browser, as well as a whole host of other credentials) and exfiltrates them to the URL: hxxp://bslines[.]xyz/copy/five/fre.php.

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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. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The Archiveus Trojan from 2006 was the first one to use RSA cipher, but it was reminiscent of a proof of concept and used a static 30-digit decryption password that was shortly cracked. File encryption 2013 – 2015. RaaS rollout 2015 – 2018. None of these early threats went pro. pharma giant ExecuPharm.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2022

The researchers attribute the botnet to the cybercrime group Keksec which focuses on DDoS-based extortion. It uses a list of hardcoded username/password combinations to login into devices in the attempt to access systems using weak or default credentials. The botnet targets multiple architectures, including arm, bsd, x64, and x86.

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Herjavec Group

OCTOBER 27, 2020

According to Cybersecurity Ventures – cybercrime will cost the world $6 trillion annually by 2021 ! Cybercrime will cost the world $6 trillion annually by 2021 , up from $3 trillion in 2015. Ransomware, the fastest growing type of cybercrime, cost the world $11.5 This includes human and machine passwords.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2020

“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.” The company excluded that hackers have stolen financial and payment card data or passwords. ” reported ZDNet.

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2022

The researchers attribute the botnet to the cybercrime group Keksec which focuses on DDoS-based extortion. It uses a list of hardcoded username/password combinations to login into devices in the attempt to access systems using weak or default credentials. The botnet targets multiple architectures, including arm, bsd, x64, and x86.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2019

HIBP received the data from dehashed.com on June 9th, 2019, exposed info includes mail addresses, IP address, usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. million email addresses, IP address, usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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