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Russian-speaking cybercrime evolution: What changed from 2016 to 2021

SecureList

Having been in the field for so long, we have witnessed some major changes in the cybercrime world’s modus operandi. This report shares our insights into the Russian-speaking cybercrime world and the changes in how it operates that have happened in the past five years.

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FBI Arrests Alleged Owner of Deer.io, a Top Broker of Stolen Accounts

Krebs on Security

FBI officials last week arrested a Russian computer security researcher on suspicion of operating deer.io , a vast marketplace for buying and selling stolen account credentials for thousands of popular online services and stores. also is a favored marketplace for people involved in selling phony social media accounts.

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A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

Krebs on Security

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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Wanted: Disgruntled Employees to Deploy Ransomware

Krebs on Security

“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.

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This Service Helps Malware Authors Fix Flaws in their Code

Krebs on Security

is cybercrime forum. “We can examine your (or not exactly your) PHP code for vulnerabilities and backdoors,” reads his offering on several prominent Russian cybercrime forums. ” From 2013 to 2016, upO was a major player on Exploit[.]in The cybercrime actor “upO” on Exploit[.]in

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TrickBot indictment reveals the scale and complexity of organized cybercrime

Malwarebytes

Back in 2016, we saw the emergence of a botnet mainstay called TrickBot. A Latvian woman has been charged for their alleged role in a transnational cybercrime organisation. Said funds would then be laundered across a variety of bank accounts “controlled by the defendant and others”. Big scams, big numbers.

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Arrest, Raids Tied to ‘U-Admin’ Phishing Kit

Krebs on Security

” The operation was carried out in coordination with the FBI and authorities in Australia, which was particularly hard hit by phishing scams perpetrated by U-Admin customers. “Universal Admin,” is crimeware platform that first surfaced in 2016. The U-Admin phishing panel interface. Image: fr3d.hk/blog.

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