Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2024

Alexander Vinnik , a Russian national, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering for his involvement in operating the cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e from 2011 to 2017. In July 2017 law enforcement shut down the virtual currency exchange.

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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

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. LeakedSource also tried to pass itself off as a legal, legitimate business that was marketing to security firms and professionals. An administrator account Xerx3s on Abusewithus.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2024

The company did not share details about the attack or its scope, but a few weeks later the Akira ransomware group claimed to have stolen 100 GB of information from the company. Stolen data included corporate files and personal information Nissan refused to pay the ransom and the cybercrime group published the alleged stolen files.

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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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Narelle Devine, the company’s chief information security officer for the Asia Pacific region, added that no customer account information was stored on the third-party platform. It seems that the security breach also impacted other companies. ” reads the statement published by the company.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

According to the New York Times , the threat actors hacked an employee’s Slack account and used it to inform internal personnel that the company had “suffered a data breach” and provided a list of allegedly hacked internal databases. “I This is not the first time that the company suffered a security breach.

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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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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

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. In some cases, the man manually chacked the stolen information. ” reads the press release published by the DoJ.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2023

MERCURY (aka MuddyWater , SeedWorm and TEMP.Zagros ) has been active since at least 2017, in January 2022 the USCYBERCOM has officially linked the Iran-linked APT group to Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS). Threat actors masqueraded the attacks as a standard ransomware operation.

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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

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In 2017, Greek Police arrested the Russian national Alexander Vinnik and they accused the man of running the BTC-e Bitcoin exchange to launder more than US$4bn worth of the cryptocurrency. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime). Vinnik is also accused to be responsible for the failure of the Japanese bitcoin exchange Mt.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2022

“Kaye allegedly operated The Real Deal, a Dark Web market for illicit items, including stolen account login credentials for U.S. Kaye also trafficked login credentials for Twitter and LinkedIn accounts. ’s National Crime Agency (NCA) in February 2017. ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The Balada injector is a malware family that has been active since 2017. In another wave, the threat actors were observed using a malicious script to create rogue WordPress administrator accounts. Sucuri researchers reported that more than 17,000 WordPress websites have been compromised in September with the Balada Injector.

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2019

The LeakedSource website was launched in late 2015, in January 2017 the popular data breach notification website has been raided by feds. “I am immensely proud of this outcome as combatting cybercrime is an operational priority for us.” SecurityAffairs – cybercrime, LeakedSource). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

US authorities have indicted two men for hacking the exchange EtherDelta in December 2017, one of them was also accused of TalkTalk hack. US authorities have indicted two men, Elliot Gunton and Anthony Tyler Nashatka, for hacking the cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta in 2017. Six days later, on December 19, 2017.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2023

“Considering that downloading the app is conditional on having an account and new account registration was not possible for us, we believe that potential victims were specifically targeted.” Therefore, we believe that potential victims are highly targeted.” ” reads the analysis published by ESET.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The data has been available for sale in the cybercrime underground since February. In February, Gnosticplayers hacker offered a third round of databases containing millions of hacked accounts from unreported data breaches, including Streeteasy (Real estate) with 990,000 records. 78% of addresses were already in @haveibeenpwned.

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Security Affairs

JULY 27, 2019

In August 2017, he was arrested in Las Vegas after attending the Def Con hacking conference and was detained by the FBI in the state of Nevada. The sentence takes into account the age of the expert and decided to give him and his talent a second opportunity. SecurityAffairs – Marcus Hutchins, cybercrime). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2023

It was not the first time the company discovered pre-installed malware on Android devices, back in July 2017 Dr.Web researchers discovered many smartphone models were shipped with the dreaded Triada trojan such as Leagoo M5 Plus, Leagoo M8, Nomu S10, and Nomu S20.

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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

AUGUST 6, 2019

The advisory explains that victims are used as part of a money-laundering scheme and act as money mules that unwittingly transfer funds obtained from business email compromise (BEC) to the accounts under the control of the crooks. These accounts are used to facilitate criminal activities for a short period of time.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2019

.” According to the indictment, the criminal duo used the stolen banking credentials to make unauthorized transfers from the victims’ bank accounts to bank accounts owned by “money mules.” Then the criminals moved the money to other accounts or withdraw the funds and transport the funds overseas as smuggled bulk cash. .

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In the early afternoon of Friday 12 May 2017, the media broke the news of a global computer security attack carried out through a malicious code capable of encrypting data residing in information systems and demanding a ransom in cryptocurrency to restore them, the Wannacry ransomware. How did the contagion stop?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2021

The attacks aimed at stealing information to gain an advantage over CrowdSurge, which was acquired by Warner Music Group (WMG) in 2017. ” Both Mead and Zaidi were fired by Ticketmaster in 2017. On October 18, 2019, Zaidi pled guilty for his participation in the hacking activity.

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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. The intrusion aimed at stealing automotive trade secrets.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Lisov was arrested in January 2017 at the Barcelona airport by the Guardia Civil. The Neverquest malware is able to log in to the victim’s online banking account and perform fraudulent transactions. The arrest is the result of the collaboration between the Spanish law enforcement and the FBI. The United States Attorney Geoffrey S.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2020

Fxmsp took his first steps in the cybercrime scene in September 2016 when he registered on an underground forum, fuckav[.]ru. Fxmsp included one of his Jabber accounts, in his contact information on the forum which helped Group-IB researchers to establish his presumed identity. First steps. Proxy seller.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 17, 2021

It was 2017 when John Rowe first popped onto the FBI's radar. The company's Facility Security Officer (FSO) notified the FBI about something unusual. of Defense stalking me on [WEBSITE-1] back in 2017, I have to be real careful on who I talk too. Roe popped onto FBI radar in 2017 but did not get busted. It was not.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2021

TA544 is a financially motivated threat actor that is active at least since 2017, it focuses on attacks on banking users, it leverages banking malware and other payloads to target organizations worldwide, mainly in Italy and Japan. When I began studying this threat, Ursnif campaigns were more widespread and less targeted. .

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

HashFlare shut down its operations in 2019, but since May 2017, the duo started offering investments in a company called Polybius, which they claimed to form a bank specializing in virtual currency. . “They promised to pay investors dividends from Polybius’s profits.

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Cryptocurrency Banking Marketing Hacking 86

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

GravityRAT was first spotted by Cisco Talos researchers in 2017 who speculate it remained under the radar for the at least a couple of years [since 2015], In October 2020, researchers from Kaspersky Lab spotted new variants of the GravityRAT malware that was able to infect both Android and macOS devices. Gets connected network information.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2018

Security experts from Group-IB, an international company specializing in preventing cyberattacks and developing information security solutions, has investigated user data leaks from cryptocurrency exchanges and has analyzed the nature of these incidents. In 2017, their number increased by 369% compared to 2016.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2019

According to Group-IB’s annual Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2018 report, on average, from June 2017 to August 2018, the details of 1.8 Hence, the task of preventing information security incidents for critical information infrastructures should be addressed at the legislative level. Map of Middle-Eastern Countries.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2021

AlphaBay was active between 2014 and June 2017, law enforcement seized the marketplace and arrested the administrator Alexandre Cazes (aka “Alpha02/Admin”), who died by suicide in prison in Thailand. The darknet marketplace AlphaBay resurfaced four years after an international operation conducted by law enforcement agencies took down it.

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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. Carey | @marcusjcarey.

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