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 quickly rose to become the most prominent Russian-language darknet market after the closure of a key competitor in 2017. billion euros in 2020 alone.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2020

biz , which frequently blogs about security weaknesses in popular malware tools. 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. The cybercrime actor “upO” on Exploit[.]in

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

But by all accounts, few attacks from those gangs have come close to the amount of firepower wielded by a pro-Russia group calling itself “ NoName057(16).” He also co-runs SURBL , an anti-abuse service that flags domains and Internet address ranges that are strongly associated with spam and cybercrime activity, including DDoS.

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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 quickly rose to become the most prominent Russian-language darknet market after the closure of a key competitor in 2017. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime).

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Cybercrime is a big business. Cybersecurity firm Positive Technologies found 88 new IAB sales on dark web marketplaces in the first quarter of 2020, compared to just three in all of 2017. Ransomware is already the fastest-growing type of cybercrime , and IABs make it more accessible to novice criminals. Mitigating IABs.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 13, 2020

The incident also highlights the often murky area between what’s legal and ethical in combating cybercrime. 3, 2019, Data Viper’s Twitter account casually noted , “FiveStars — 44m breached records added – incl Name, Email, DOB.” An online post by the attackers who broke into Data Viper. But on Aug.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The Balada injector is a malware family that has been active since 2017. The Balada Injector malware campaign performed a series of attacks targeting both the vulnerability in the tagDiv Composer plugin and blog administrators of already infected sites.” The malware supports multiple attack vectors and persistence mechanisms.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

In Q1 2023, threat actors linked to Russia’s military intelligence service focused their phishing campaigns on Ukraine, with the country accounting for over 60% of observed Russian targeting. The group is also the author of the NotPetya ransomware that hit hundreds of companies worldwide in June 2017.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2023

In April 2017, security vulnerabilities in the Hyundai Blue Link mobile apps could have allowed hackers to locate, unlock and start vehicles of the carmaker.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The malicious campaigns Charming Kitten are unleashing on unsuspecting victims makes use of superior social engineering, such as creating dummy accounts on Gmail that look realistic enough to trick users into clicking through. According to Google’s TAG blog, APT35 have been active since at least 2017, including attacks on the 2020 U.S.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 4, 2022

Network defenders can guard against IIS-based attacks by employing security best practices, such as staying up to date on security procedures, closely managing highly privileged accounts and using anti-virus software. 5 ) More recently, the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

This post examines the activities of Khoroshev’s many alter egos on the cybercrime forums, and tracks the career of a gifted malware author who has written and sold malicious code for the past 14 years. was used by a Russian-speaking member called Pin on the English-language cybercrime forum Opensc. Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2019

Security experts at RiskIQ announced that the two bedding retailers MyPillow and Amerisleep were victims of the Magecart cybercrime gang. “In this blog, we’ll document two Magecart-related breaches against bedding retailers MyPillow and Amerisleep.” One of the incidents has never been disclosed, the other was solved.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Researchers from MalwareBytes and HYAS Threat Intelligence linked one of the hacking groups under the Magecart umbrella to the notorious Cobalt cybercrime Group. The experts found a link between the Magecart Group 4 and the Cobalt cybercrime Gang, such as patterns in the email addresses used to register domains used in Magecart operations.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In Q3 2017, SiteLock discovered alarming cybercrime trends that will likely affect websites for months to come. That’s not all: cybercriminals attempted to compromise more websites in Q3 2017 than in the previous quarter, increasing their attempted attacks by 16 percent. Backdoor Files.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2022

Once purchased a pool of proxies, threat actors could redirect malicious internet traffic through the IP addresses associated with the compromised devices and carry out a broad range of malicious activities, including credential stuffing attacks, accessing compromised social media accounts, and sending out phishing messages.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

These developments would have, over the next decade or so, steadily and materially reduced society’s general exposure to cybercrime and online privacy abuses. So as of a few months ago, the US now requires data containerization along much the same lines as Saudi Arabia and the UAE first mandated in 2017.

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BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Gardaí established that over €40 million was stolen and laundered through Irish bank accounts, and that a trade-based money laundering and underground banking system is operating from Ireland. while cybercrime incidents increase More than seven out of 10 Irish companies experienced at least one cybersecurity incident in the past 12 months.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2019

The Necurs botnet was not active for a long period at the beginning of 2017 and resumed its activity in April 2017 when it was observed using a new technique to avoid detection. ” reads a blog post published by the firm. ” continues the blog post. “At times, they’ve been known to be inactive for weeks.

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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. Bruce Schneier | @schneierblog.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

This makes stealthy attacks incredibly popular in the cybercrime community. If you have a blog on your site, pay special attention to the comment section; attackers often use it to flood a site with nefarious or irrelevant links, which damages your reputation and your site’s domain authority. Stealthy Cybersecurity Risks for SMBs.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2018

” reads the blog post published by Kaspersky. According to the data available, the attackers’ main goal is to steal money from victim organizations’ accounts,”. Once the attackers have gained access to the victim’s system they will search for any purchase documents, as well as the financial and accounting software.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

1 November 2017. My popular newsletter Crypto - Gram and my blog Schneier on Security are read by over 250,000 people. The particular vulnerability was fixed by Apache in a security patch that was made available on March 6, 2017. It confessed to another data leak in January 2017. Before the. Washington, DC 20515.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 8, 2019

“In one year, people who worked with us have earned over US $2 billion,” read the farewell post by the eponymous GandCrab identity on the cybercrime forum Exploit[.]in Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab estimated that by the time the program ceased operations, GandCrab accounted for up to half of the global ransomware market.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

In our investigation, we discovered and studied different attacks conducted by this threat actor using the malware families described in Symantec’s blog post, together with new versions of the malware we reported in one of our reports on Tropic Trooper a few years ago. Where CVE-2017-0261 was used before, CVE-2017-11228 replaces it.

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

While criminals collaborating in the world of cybercrime isn’t a novel concept , a RaaS group’s hierarchy is more rigid compared to other forms of cybercrime, due to the power imbalance between the group’s developers/admins and affiliates. No hidden blogs, just leaks. I, Orange, will rate the usability and design of blogs.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2019

It has been baptized “ Operation Pistacchietto ” from a username extracted from a Github account used to serve some part of the malware. Analyzing the repository emerges it is a copy of an OSX backdoor discussed in this blog post. Introduction. In the past weeks, a new strange campaign emerged in the Italian landscape.

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SecureList

MAY 12, 2021

Botmasters and account resellers are tasked with providing initial access inside the victim’s network. There is, of course, a documented porosity between the ransomware ecosystem and other cybercrime domains such as carding or point-of-sale (PoS) hacking. Part II: The darknet shenanigans. Through the market lanes.

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Cisco Security

MAY 27, 2022

In part one of our Black Hat Asia 2022 NOC blog , we discussed building the network with Meraki: . CyberCrime Tracker. Since 2017 (starting in Black Hat USA – Las Vegas), Cisco Umbrella has provided DNS security to the Black Hat attendee network, added layers of traffic visibility previously not seen. alphaMountain.ai

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

For Lockbit, who have been the most active group since early 2021, it is possible that the current war between Russia and Ukraine may take law enforcement focus away from cybercrime as many western law enforcement agencies are likely more preoccupied with stopping Russian nation state sponsored activity.

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

While current employees are the biggest perpetrators of insider attacks, accounting for 30% of all incidents, former employees can also cause damage. In 2015, a former Morgan Stanley financial advisor pleaded guilty to stealing 730,000 account records from 2011 to 2014 and saving them on a personal server at home.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The first accounts of its activity date back to March last year, in which archives carrying COVID-related decoy file names that contained a malicious executable were described in a tweet by MalwareHunterTeam. This campaign was also covered by researchers at Zscaler in a blog post. This campaign affected Ethiopia, Palestine and Kuwait.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

ransomware in May 2017, and the extortion and attempted extortion of victim companies from 2017 through 2020 involving the theft of sensitive data and deployment of other ransomware. It's a fairly recent development, but they've been able to get into certain security blogs that cybersecurity researchers use.

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Cisco Security

MARCH 4, 2021

Finally, kudos to another person who inspired me and expanded my vision: Mike Storm, Distinguished Engineer at Cisco ( Blog ). She started working as the editor of AlienVault’s blog in 2014. I’ve been working with Kate since her AlienVault days, and I continue to contribute to the blog today. Following a Strategic Leader.

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SecureList

JULY 29, 2021

According to public blogs, targeting was widespread but focused primarily on diplomatic entities throughout Europe and North America: based on the content of the lure documents bundled with the malware, this assessment appears to be accurate. The execution chain ultimately ended with a Cobalt Strike beacon payload being loaded into memory.

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