SecureWorld News

JANUARY 30, 2025

In a coordinated international effort, law enforcement agencies from the United States, Europe, and Australia have dismantled Cracked and Nulled, two of the world's largest cybercrime marketplaces. By dismantling these two major forums, law enforcement agencies have disrupted a global supply chain of cybercrime tools.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2024

Experts reported that since April, the Phorpiex botnet sent millions of phishing emails to spread LockBit Black ransomware. Phishing Reporting : Report phishing emails and other malicious cyber activities to relevant authorities like the FBI’s IC3 and the NJCCIC.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2022

Experts identified a spike in phishing content delivered via Azure Front Door (AFD), a cloud CDN service provided by Microsoft. USA) has identified a spike in phishing content delivered via Azure Front Door (AFD), a cloud CDN service provided by Microsoft. 1 – Example of Phishing Page Delivered by Azure Front Door (AFD).

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2021

Back in 2016, we saw the emergence of a botnet mainstay called TrickBot. Sometimes, it’s used even if an attack being discussed is a basic phish, or maybe some very generic malware. A Latvian woman has been charged for their alleged role in a transnational cybercrime organisation. What happened this week, you ask?

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Justice Department seized Liberty Reserve , alleging the virtual currency service acted as a $6 billion financial hub for the cybercrime world. The founder of Liberty Reserve, 45-year-old Arthur Budovsky , pleaded guilty in 2016 to conspiring to commit money laundering. In May 2013, the U.S.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

We can learn a lot from the cybercrime of the past…the history of cybercrime is a glimpse into what we can expect in the future. In the past 18 months, we’ve experienced the beginning of an era that has seen cybersecurity and cybercrime at the center of it all. Dateline Cybercrime . Robert Herjavec.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2019

The Cobalt cybercrime gang has been using Google App Engine to distribute malware through PDF decoy documents. The post Cobalt cybercrime gang abused Google App Engine in recent attacks appeared first on Security Affairs. The Cobalt hacking group has been using Google App Engine to distribute malware through PDF decoy documents.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 7, 2025

“In October 2016, a Pakistan district judge acquitted 24 Axact officials at trial due to ‘not enough evidence’ and then later admitted he had accepted a bribe (of $35,209) from Axact,” reads a history (PDF) published by the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

In 2016, Malwarebytes first discovered an info stealer called TrickBot that, when implanted on a persons device, would steal online banking credentials. But in the world of cybercrime, malware features only mean so much. Another important piece of cybercrime is getting malware onto a device to begin with.

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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. 24, Russia invades Ukraine, and fault lines quickly begin to appear in the cybercrime underground. ” The employees who kept things running for RSOCKS, circa 2016.

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Adam Levin

JULY 24, 2020

Barely a day goes by without news of an elite hacking team creating a more stealth exploit– malware , elaborate spear-phishing attacks, trojans, and a killer array of ransomware that can take factories and other organizations offline, or even hobble entire cities. Cyberattacks are constantly getting more sophisticated.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2018

The upshot of this weakness is that cyber criminals could harvest the data and use it in targeted phishing campaigns that spoof LifeLock’s brand. Security firm Symantec , which acquired LifeLock in November 2016 for $2.3 That’s a pretty sharp spear for my spear phishing right there. million customer accounts. .

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2023

TrickGate is a shellcode-based packer offered as a service, which is used at least since July 2016, to hide malware from defense programs. The attack chain observed by the experts can vary significantly, but in most cases, threat actors used phishing messages with malicious attachments or malicious links. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The latest version of the Azorult was delivered through the RIG exploit kit as well as other sources, previous variants were mainly distributed via weaponized Office documents as attachment of phishing messages. is available in the cybercrime underground market appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

Security experts from Netscout’s ASERT uncovered a new campaign carried out by the Cobalt cybercrime group. Cobalt crime gang has been active since at least 2016, it targeted banks worldwide. com leads to a phishing email uploaded to VirusTotal, d3ac921038773c9b59fa6b229baa6469. ” reads the report.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 24, 2018

Hackers used phishing emails to break into a Virginia bank in two separate cyber intrusions over an eight-month period, making off with more than $2.4 National Bank said the first breach began Saturday, May 28, 2016 and continued through the following Monday. million total.

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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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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 was involved in FIN7 criminal activities from approximately November 2016 through November 2018.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The infamous Locky ransomware was first spotted in the wild in February 2016. CryptXXX, another major family discovered in April 2016 and later rebranded as UltraCrypter, relied on exploit kits that used software vulnerabilities to infiltrate systems. The first viable Mac ransomware called KeRanger was spotted in the spring of 2016.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2021

On Wednesday, the two US agencies published an advisory to warn organizations of a new wave of attacks conducted by cybercrime actors that are leveraging a traffic infringement phishing scheme to trick victims into installing the TrickBot malware. ” reads the advisory. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2020

In the last weeks, security experts reported many Coronavirus-themed attacks carried out by cybercrime gangs, now experts warn of similar attacks from nation – s tate actors. “A closer look at this campaign allowed us to tie it to other operations which were carried out by the same anonymous group, dating back to at least 2016.

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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. Nikulin used data stolen from Linkedin to launch spear-phishing attacks against employees at other companies, including Dropbox. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Cybercrime).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Security experts at Kaspersky have published a report on a targeted cybercrime malware campaign, tracked as RevengeHotels, that hit hotels, hostels, hospitality and tourism companies. The attackers carried out spear-phishing campaigns using weaponized Word, Excel or PDF documents as attachments.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Of course, the CBR does not have anything to do with the phishing campaign – the hackers faked the sender’s address. A spear-phishing campaign set up to look like it was carried out by the Central Bank is a relatively widespread vector of attack among cyber criminals; it has been used by groups such as Buhtrap, Anunak , Cobalt , and Lurk.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The fraudsters behind the often laughable Nigerian prince email scams have long since branched out into far more serious and lucrative forms of fraud, including account takeovers, phishing, dating scams, and malware deployment. RT: As we started getting more and more people involved, we realized BEC was much broader than just phishing emails.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2024

The threat actors used the botnet harvest credentials, collect NTLMv2 digests, proxy network traffic, and host spear-phishing landing pages and custom tools. The Moobot botnet has been active since at least 2016, it also includes other routers and virtual private servers (VPS). ” reported Trend Micro.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Group-IB: The online market for counterfeit goods in Russia has reached $1,5 billion, while the number of phishing attacks has surpassed 1,200 daily. billion in 2016. Fraudsters use various ways to deceive users: phishing websites, fake mobile apps, accounts and groups on social media. billion in 2017, compared to $1.2

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2022

The Russia-linked APT29 group (aka SVR , Cozy Bear , and The Dukes ) has been active since at least 2014, along with APT28 cyber espionage group was involved in the Democratic National Committee hack and the wave of attacks aimed at the 2016 US Presidential Elections. ” reads the analysis published by Palo Alto Network.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2020

The Brazilian cybercrime underground is recognized as the most focuses on the development and commercialization of banking trojans. Both Guildma and Javali employ a multi-stage attack chain and were distributed using phishing messages using compressed email attachments (e.g.,VBS,LNK) File types vary from Visual Basic Script to LNK.”

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

We look at phishing threats commonly encountered by users and companies as well as the prevalence of various Windows and Android-based financial malware. Phishing: In 2021, 8.2% of users were hit by phishing. E-commerce-related phishing continued to exceed banking-related phishing, as it did in 2020, making up 17.6%

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Adam Levin

JULY 23, 2020

Barely a day goes by without news of an elite hacking team creating a more stealth exploit– malware , elaborate spear-phishing attacks, trojans, and a killer array of ransomware that can take factories and other organizations offline, or even hobble entire cities. Cyberattacks are constantly getting more sophisticated.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The name EMMA is an acronym for European Money Mule Action operation, the first EMMA operation led by Europol took place in 2016. The money mules have a crucial role in criminal organizations to launder money for a wide array of illegal activities, such as online scams, sim-swapping, e-commerce fraud, and phishing.

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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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SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

We attribute the campaign, named SnatchCrypto, to the BlueNoroff APT group, the threat actor behind the 2016 attack on Bangladesh’s central bank. The group uses various malware families, including Wroba, and attack methods that include phishing, mining, smishing and DNS poisoning. The phishing kit market.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Employee Training on Phishing and Digital Security. One in 99 emails is a phishing attack , a fraudulent email designed to look legitimate so an employee will click on a malicious link inside or reply with privileged information. Most phishing happens over email. Hackers Target Mobile Devices.

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2019

Hackers Do a Payroll Diversion Through Phishing. A direct deposit paycheck hack involves getting the necessary details from the victim through a phishing scheme. This method hackers use likely won’t come as a surprise when you consider a few recent statistics about phishing. Security Affairs – Paycheck, cybercrime).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 12, 2019

The last time security experts documented the FIN8’s activities was in 2016 and 2017. “It is believed that the malware was deployed as a result of several phishing attempts.” ” Experts believe the attackers launched phishing attacks in the attempt of delivering PoS malware. ” continues the analysis.

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