CSO Magazine

MARCH 23, 2022

A new report released by the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) shows that financial losses due to suspected cybercrime continued to rise sharply over the course of 2021, to a total of $6.9 Five years ago, the same report showed that internet-based crime accounted for $1.4 billion, on 301,580 complaints.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

authorities today announced criminal charges and financial sanctions against two Russian men accused of stealing nearly $17 million worth of virtual currencies in a series of phishing attacks throughout 2017 and 2018 that spoofed websites for some of the most popular cryptocurrency exchanges. million from 158 Poloniex users, and $1.17

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 9, 2023

A Croatian national has been arrested for allegedly operating NetWire , a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) marketed on cybercrime forums since 2012 as a stealthy way to spy on infected systems and siphon passwords. Prior to the demise of Google+ , the email address dugidox@gmail.com mapped to an account with the nickname “ Netwire wwl.”

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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. In 2017, U.S. was used to register an account with the username “Nordex” at bankir[.]com

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2021

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”. As touched on above, the group hired experts in a variety of cybercrime fields. What happened this week, you ask?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2023

Truebot has been active since 2017 and some researchers linked it to the Russian Silence Group , while a recent investigation linked it to threat actor TA505 (aka Evil Corp). .” The researchers noticed that the domain hosting the tools employed in the attack, windowservicecemter[.]com, com, was registered on April 12, 2023.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

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. These services, too, have been outsourced.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Cybercriminals offered for sale private messages from at least 81,000 Facebook accounts claiming of being in possession of data from 120 million accounts. Crooks are offering for sale Criminals are selling the private messages of 81,000 hacked Facebook accounts for 10 cents per account. ” states the BBC.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 9, 2021

Also, this greenhorn criminal clearly had bought into BriansClub’s advertising, which uses my name and likeness in a series of ads that run on all the top cybercrime forums. That was right after KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that someone had hacked BriansClub and siphoned information on 26 million stolen debit and credit accounts.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced sanctions against several organizations over email account hacking. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced sanctions against eight entities belonging to three companies over email account hacking due to cybersecurity failures. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Since the beginning of 2020, Babam has set up numerous auctions on the Russian-language cybercrime forum Exploit , mainly selling virtual private networking (VPN) credentials stolen from various companies. In early 2017, Babam confided to another Verified user via private message that he is from Lithuania. com (2017).

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2021

There is a now-dormant Myspace account for a Matthew Philbert from Orleans, a suburb of Ottawa, Ontario. The information tied to the Myspace account matches the age and town of the defendant. The Myspace account was registered under the nickname “ Darkcloudowner ,” and to the email address dark_cl0ud6@hotmail.com.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The researchers speculate the originating accounts of the instant messaging applications were compromised through the leaked credentials available on cybercrime forums. The message sent to the victims from a compromised Skype account contains a VBS script with a filename following the following format: <filename.pdf> www.skype[.]vbs.

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Security Affairs

JULY 17, 2023

In April, the FBI seized the Genesis Market , a black marketplace for stolen credentials that was launched in 2017. The price for a stolen account was very cheap, paying a few dollars crooks were able to use it for a specific period. Accounts on the forums will not be transferred, the new owner will create new accounts if necessary.”

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BH Consulting

JULY 26, 2022

In 2017, we published a guide to dealing with ransomware and updated it in 2020 to reflect how the threat had adapted. For years, we’ve encouraged all victims of cybercrime to report to law enforcement so the agencies can gather intelligence, share information, understand threats better, and develop responses.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 20, 2021

.” Over the course of his 15-year cybercriminal career, Severa would emerge as a pivotal figure in the cybercrime underground , serving as the primary moderator of a spam community that spanned multiple top Russian cybercrime forums. Levashov was arrested in 2017 while in Barcelona, Spain with his family.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 25, 2023

This means that stealing someone’s phone number often can let cybercriminals hijack the target’s entire digital life in short order — including access to any financial, email and social media accounts tied to that phone number. This may require stepping through the website’s account recovery or lost password flow.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

.” New York City-based cyber intelligence firm Flashpoint said the Snatch ransomware group was created in 2018, based on Truniger’s recruitment both on Russian language cybercrime forums and public Russian programming boards. was also used to register an account at the online game stalker[.]so ru account and posted as him.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

. “According to his plea agreement, from February 2017 until at least July 2017, Simon-Ebo conspired with others to perpetrate a BEC scheme.” ” reads the press release published by DoJ. ” During the same period, Simon-Ebo and his co-conspirators conspired to commit money laundering. .

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

According to Group-IB’s report findings, Asia is one of the most actively attacked regions in the world, the company presented latest cybercrime trends. In 2017-2018 hackers’ interest in cryptocurrency exchanges ramped up. New cybercrime groups are also expected to start operations in Asia and Latin America. Attacks on Crypto.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2023

Bilyuchenko is also charged with conspiring with Alexander Vinnik to run the virtual currency exchange BTC-e from 2011 to 2017. The BTC-e virtual currency is popular in the cybercrime underground because it was used by crooks to launder funds for illegal activities. ” reads the DoJ.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 8, 2019

Unfortunately, if you don’t already have an account at the credit bureau’s new myEquifax portal , it may be simple for identity thieves to lift an existing credit freeze at Equifax and bypass the PIN armed with little more than your, name, Social Security number and birthday. Getting an account at myequifax.com was easy.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2024

Stolen data included corporate files and personal information Nissan refused to pay the ransom and the cybercrime group published the alleged stolen files. In December 2017, Nissan Finance Canada was hacked , personal information of 1.13 This week, Nissan Oceania announced that it started notifying the impacted individuals.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2020

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 RedBear’s profile on the Russian-language xss[.]is RANSOMWARE DREAMS.

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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 is the third member of the FIN7 cybercrime group to be sentenced in the U.S. in May 2020.

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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 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. In a 2017 discussion on fl.l33t[.]su

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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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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

LeakedSource was advertised on a number of popular cybercrime forums as a service that could help hackers break into valuable or high-profile accounts. ” COME, ABUSE WITH US The gold farming reference is fascinating because in 2017 KrebsOnSecurity published Who Ran LeakedSource? Abusewith[.]us Abusewith[.]us

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2018

The company just fixed a vulnerability on its site that allowed anyone with a Web browser to index email addresses associated with millions of customer accounts, or to unsubscribe users from all communications from the company. According to LifeLock’s marketing literature as of January 2017, the company has more than 4.5

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Group-IB supported an INTERPOL-led operation Falcon targeting business email compromise cybercrime gang from Nigeria, dubbed TMT. Group-IB , a global threat hunting and intelligence company, supported an INTERPOL-led operation Falcon targeting business email compromise (BEC) cybercrime gang from Nigeria, dubbed TMT by Group-IB.

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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. billion euros in 2020 alone.

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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

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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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Koshkin was arrested in California in September 2019 , while Tsurkan was arrested in April 2017. The Kelihos botnet was used to send out a large volume of spam messages, conduct denial of service attacks, harvest account credentials, and distribute malware.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The scripts developed by the cyber criminal were used to parse log data collected from botnet and searched for personally identifiable information (PII) and account credentials. “Our office is committed to holding these criminals accountable and protecting our communities as cybercrime becomes an ever more prominent threat.”

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