Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

One of Megatraffer’s ads on an English-language cybercrime forum. 2016 sales thread on Exploit. That same email address also is tied to two forum accounts for a user with the handle “ O.R.Z.” user account — this one on Verified[.]ru account on Carder[.]su account on Carder[.]su

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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. But in February 2016, Babam joined Verified , another Russian-language crime forum. com (2017). com and wwwpexpay[.]com.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

These services can be used in a legitimate manner for several business purposes — such as price comparisons or sales intelligence — but they are massively abused for hiding cybercrime activity because they can make it difficult to trace malicious traffic to its original source. THE INTERNET NEVER FORGETS. com , cleantraffic[.]net

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 15, 2021

com , a wildly popular service that sold access to more than 12 billion usernames and passwords stolen from thousands of hacked websites. In an ironic turn of events, a lapsed domain registration tied to WeLeakInfo let someone plunder and publish account data on 24,000 customers who paid to access the service with a credit card.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2021

“According to this actor, he had originally intended to send his targets—all senior-level executives—phishing emails to compromise their accounts, but after that was unsuccessful, he pivoted to this ransomware pretext,” Hassold wrote. billion in 2020. Image: FBI. Open our letter at your email. ” Image: Sophos.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2021

In the years leading up to his arrest, Ferizi was the administrator of a cybercrime forum called Pentagon Crew. In January 2016, Ferizi pleaded guilty to providing material support to a terrorist group and to unauthorized access. ” [Side note: It may be little more than a coincidence, but my PayPal account was hacked in Dec.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Here are the top Twitter accounts to follow for the latest commentary, research, and much-needed humor in the ever-evolving information security space. Brian Krebs is an independent investigative reporter known for his coverage of technology, malware , data breaches , and cybercrime developments. Brian Krebs | @briankrebs.

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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. Europol will continue working with its international partners to make cybercrime harder – and riskier –to commit.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 12, 2022

KrebsOnSecurity has learned the alleged compromise is tied to a cybercrime and online harassment community that routinely impersonates police and government officials to harvest personal information on their targets. “Law Enforcement Inquiry and Alerts (LEIA) allows for a federated search of 16 Federal law enforcement databases.”

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Here’s a look at some of the more notable cybercrime stories from the past year, as covered by KrebsOnSecurity and elsewhere. Internal Revenue Service website for months: Anyone seeking to create an account to view their tax records online would soon be required to provide biometric data to a private company in Virginia — ID.me.

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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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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2018

” Organized cybercrime gangs that coordinate unlimited attacks typically do so by hacking or phishing their way into a bank or payment card processor. “At a pre-determined time, the co-conspirators withdraw account funds from ATMs using these cards.”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2020

The alleged hacker behind the credential stuffing attacks on UK National Lottery accounts has been sentenced to nine months in prison. ” The attack took place in November 2016 and impacted the National Lottery customer database containing about 9,000,000 records. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – National Lottery, hacking).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2018

According to the FBI , the number of business email account (BEC) and email account compromise (EAC) scam incidents worldwide reached 78,000 between October 2013 and May 2018. If these passwords have been reused for corporate accounts, this may leave organizations at risk to account takeovers.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2023

On Christmas Eve, Resecurity’s HUNTER unit spotted the author of perspective password stealer Meduza has released a new version (2.2). Altogether, Meduza makes a great competitor to Azorult , Redline , Racoon , and Vidar Stealer used by cybercriminals for account takeover (ATO), online-banking theft, and financial fraud.

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Adam Levin

JULY 24, 2020

percent of 15,000 domain names probed directed users to websites associated with some form of cybercrime, including hacking, phishing, online fraud, or spamming. A similar campaign in 2016 was used to spread malware to anyone who had the bad luck of typing Netflix.om and Citibank.om (.om om is the domain suffix for Oman).

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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 criminal was arrested in Prague in October 2016 in an international joint operation with the FBI. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime).

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 3, 2022

By focusing on this context, we hope that you’ll come away with a stronger understanding about, for instance, why you should use a password manager rather than that you should use a password manager. In 2016, I bought a new smartphone that, as part of a promotion, came with an additional smart watch.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Let’s summarize the criminal activities of the man who was arrested in Prague in October 2016 in an international joint operation with the FBI. The Russian man stole roughly 117 million user records, including usernames, passwords, and emails. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Cybercrime). Source: US Defense Watch.com.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The exposed data include email addresses, password hashes, client IDs, IP addresses, and tokens for business API users, authentication tokens for connected accounts, and non-personal and internal data was compromised. The good news is that passwords are hashed using the BCrypt, a hashing algorithm that is considered robust.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

Reptile Rootkit employed in attacks against Linux systems in South Korea New PaperCut flaw in print management software exposes servers to RCE attacks A cyberattack impacted operations of multiple hospitals in several US states Married couple pleaded guilty to laundering billions in cryptocurrency stolen from Bitfinex in 2016 Malicious packages in (..)

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2020

That scanning primarily targeted devices that were placed online with weak, factory default settings and/or passwords. But multiple sources tell KrebsOnSecuirty Vamp was principally responsible for the 2016 massive denial-of-service attack that swamped Dyn — a company that provides core Internet services for a host of big-name Web sites.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Cybersecurity Ventures predicts that cybercrime will cost the world $6 trillion annually by the end of 2021. Summary: Yahoo believes that 'state-sponsored actors' compromised all of their users accounts between 2013 and 2014. Adult FriendFinder Networks data breach (2016). Damages: sensitive leaked account information.

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Adam Levin

JULY 23, 2020

percent of 15,000 domain names probed directed users to websites associated with some form of cybercrime, including hacking, phishing, online fraud, or spamming. A similar campaign in 2016 was used to spread malware to anyone who had the bad luck of typing Netflix.om and Citibank.om (.om om is the domain suffix for Oman).

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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. LeakedSource was advertised on a number of popular cybercrime forums as a service that could help hackers break into valuable or high-profile accounts. An administrator account Xerx3s on Abusewithus. Abusewith[.]us

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The StreetEasy data breach took place in the mid-2016 and exposed 988k records that included names, usernames, email addresses and SHA-1 password hashes. The data has been available for sale in the cybercrime underground since February. Impacted data includes names, usernames, email addresses and SHA-1 password hashes.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Recent news articles have all been talking about the massive Russian cyberattack against the United States, but that’s wrong on two accounts. We don’t know how, but last year the company’s update server was protected by the password “solarwinds123” — something that speaks to a lack of security culture.)

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 29, 2020

As a reminder, President Trump won Wisconsin in 2016 by just 23,000 votes. Republican Party Chairman Hitt says the attack may have started with a phishing email, where someone at the organization revealed their username and password, which gave the cybercriminals access to an email account. SecureWorld recently interviewed U.S.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

“Today, the United States, in coordination with the United Kingdom, is designating seven individuals who are part of the Russia-based cybercrime gang Trickbot.” The operation aimed at disrupting Russian cybercrime and ransomware. ” reads the press release published by the US Treasury. and allies and partners.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

The consequences of which are not only born by companies who are the primary targets of cybercrime. Cybercriminals were able to exploit the default password on thousands of these innocuous devices to carry out this nefarious attack. Routers and IP cameras, which were infiltrated through weak access points due to password insufficiency.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In September 2016, Yahoo confirmed it was the victim of one of the largest cybersecurity breaches in history. The stolen account information includes names, email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, security questions and answers, and hashed passwords. Students Pay for Cybercrime. Children Need Cybersecurity Too. “We

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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

MAY 19, 2023

The Lemon Group cybercrime ring has reportedly pre-installed malware known as Guerilla on almost 9 million Android devices. A cybercrime group tracked has Lemon Group has reportedly pre-installed malware known as Guerilla on almost 9 million Android devices. The threat actors infected at least 8.9

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The exposed data dates back from 2016 and earlier, most of the information belongs to customers from B.C. “While we’ve been taking steps over the last several years to strengthen our cyber defenses, this has served as a reminder that we need to stay ahead of cybercrime which has become a pervasive issue around the world in all sectors.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Newspaper Theme on WordPress Access Control (vulnerability CVE-2016-10972). The researchers noticed that both trojan variants contain unimplemented functionality for hacking the administrator accounts of WordPress websites through a brute-force attack using special dictionaries. WordPress – Yuzo Related Posts. Google Code Inserter.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 4, 2022

According to a report from McAfee Enterprise and FireEye titled, "Cybercrime in a Pandemic World: The Impact of COVID-19," 81% of global organizations have experienced increased cyberthreats, and 79% experienced downtime from an attack during a peak season. Before leakware came doxware, which was popular in 2016 and 2017.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 25, 2021

In July 2016, just before the Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil, something called the McLaren Report came out. The Russian agents used it to track an employee of the CCES, which is Canada's anti-doping organization: " In mid-September 2016, WADA hosted an anti-doping conference in Lausanne, Switzerland. Here is the story.

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