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. In October 2012, the WorldWiredLabs domain moved to another dedicated server at the Internet address 198.91.90.7,

DNS 249

DNS Cybercrime Passwords Accountability 249

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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Cybercrime Banking Malware Ransomware 139

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. Semen-7907 registered at Tunngle from the Internet address 31.192.175[.]63

Ransomware 218

Ransomware Accountability Cybercrime Backups 218

Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. THE INTERNET NEVER FORGETS.

VPN 305

VPN Computers and Electronics Antivirus Software 305

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).

Ransomware 297

Ransomware Passwords Accountability Cybercrime 297

Security Boulevard

AUGUST 4, 2022

Exploit Tools and Targets: Malicious Use of Internet Information Services (IIS) Extension. Microsoft published a report on July 26th alerting defenders to the malicious use of Internet Information Services (IIS) extensions. 5 ) More recently, the U.S.

Internet 59

Internet Internet Cryptocurrency Cybercrime 59

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.

Cybercrime 83

Cybercrime Hacking Banking Phishing 83

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.

Accountability 268

Accountability Identity Theft Authentication Passwords 268

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

Hacking 194

Hacking Accountability Data breaches Marketing 194

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. Data leaked online was from 2017, it includes the names (first and last) and email addresses used to sign up for the employee rewards program.

Data breaches 87

Data breaches Telecommunications Accountability Information Security 87

Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

Launched in 2013, Microleaves is a service that allows customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe. Microleaves works by changing each customer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address every five to ten minutes. The same account continues to sell subscriptions to Shifter.io.

Advertising 217

Advertising Software Computers and Electronics Internet 217

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Cybercrime is a growth industry like no other. According to statistics from the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report , complaints to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) have been rising since 2017. Phishing complaints were reported over 300,000 times in 2021 to IC3, the only Internet crime to crack 100,000+ complaints.

Social Engineering 119

Social Engineering Energy and Utilities Phishing Scams 119

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2019

A 22-year-old man was sentenced for his involvement in an extortion attempt against Apple, he threatened to mass-hack iCloud accounts. In March 2017, crooks claimed to have over 627 millions of iCloud credentials and threatened to wipe date from iPhones, iPads and Macs if Apple did not pay $150,000 within two weeks. reported the NCA.

Computers and Electronics 64

Computers and Electronics Accountability Advertising Hacking 64

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.

Hacking 79

Hacking DNS Cryptocurrency Accountability 79

SecureWorld News

JUNE 20, 2022

The DOJ says RSOCKS initially targeted Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as industrial control systems, time clocks, routers, audio/video streaming devices, and smart garage door openers, though it expanded to targeting additional types of devices including conventional computers.

Computers and Electronics 82

Computers and Electronics Internet Internet Manufacturing 82

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.

Ransomware 231

Ransomware Cybercrime Accountability Malware 231

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. In August 2017, Marcus Hutchins pleaded not guilty to charges of creating and selling malware at a hearing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. SecurityAffairs – Marcus Hutchins, cybercrime).

Banking 71

Banking Malware Advertising Cybercrime 71

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

According to interviews with several sources, this hybrid phishing gang has a remarkably high success rate, and operates primarily through paid requests or “bounties,” where customers seeking access to specific companies or accounts can hire them to target employees working remotely at home.

Phishing 358

Phishing VPN Social Engineering Media 358

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2018

billion in 2017, compared to $1.2 Counterfeit goods are not the only threat to popular brands on the Internet. Scammers create fake websites of known brands, fraudulent promotional campaigns, and fake accounts on social media. Security Affairs – counterfeit goods, cybercrime ). billion in 2016.

Marketing 79

Marketing Phishing Media Engineering 79

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.”

Scams 53

Scams Banking Accountability Advertising 53

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. The second company hit by the Magecart gang is Amerisleep, it was targeted by same crews multiple times in 2017. The skimming script remained on the website from October 1st to November 19th.

Retail 80

Retail Advertising Cybercrime Hacking 80

Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2022

The operators behind the RSOCKS botnet offered their clients access to IP addresses assigned to devices that had been compromised to route internet traffic. The initial undercover purchase in early 2017 identified approximately 325,000 compromised victim devices throughout the world with numerous devices located within San Diego County.”

Computers and Electronics 94

Computers and Electronics Internet Internet Manufacturing 94

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.

Malware 52

Malware Engineering Phishing Accountability 52

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.

Computers and Electronics 113

Computers and Electronics Data privacy Encryption Media 113

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Security firm Group-IB has estimated that in H2 2017-H1 2018 cyber attacks caused $49.4 Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyber attacks, has estimated that in H2 2017-H1 2018 cyber attacks caused $49.4 In December 2017, Group-IB published the first report on this group: “MoneyTaker: 1.5

Cyber Attacks 82

Cyber Attacks Banking Cyber threats Phishing 82

Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2020

All the affected organizations had hosts with Internet-facing RDP and weak credentials. It was revealed that the operators scanned ranges of IPs for hosts with Internet-facing RDP and weak credentials in Russia , Japan , China , and India. In some attacks, they attempted to elevate privileges using exploit for CVE-2017-0213.

Threat Detection 86

Threat Detection Ransomware Advertising Cybercrime 86

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

According to the head of the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) cybercrime wing.almost all Pakistani banks were affected by a recent security breach. According to Group-IB’s annual Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2018 report, on average, from June 2017 to August 2018, 1.8 ybercrime research unit. million were uploaded to card shops monthly.

Banking 92

Banking Cybercrime Advertising Data collection 92

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?

Malware 97

Malware Computers and Electronics Encryption Ransomware 97

Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. 1 November 2017. Additionally, I am a Fellow and Lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government --where I teach Internet security policy -- and a Fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. Before the.

Computers and Electronics 212

Computers and Electronics Identity Theft Internet Internet 212

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

3ve has been active since at least 2014 and experts observed a peak in its activity in 2017. . “To create the illusion that human internet users were viewing the advertisements loaded onto these spoofed webpages, Zhukov and his co-conspirators programmed the bots to appear and behave like human internet users.”

Advertising 84

Advertising Mobile Internet Internet 84

Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2019

Group-IB Threat Intelligence team identified hundreds of compromised credentials from Singaporean government agencies and educational institutions over the course of 2017 and 2018. Cybercriminals steal user accounts’ data using special spyware aimed at obtaining users’ authentication data. Have you been pwned?

Banking 79

Banking Government Passwords Marketing 79

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Based on the risk score, CryptoIns experts have calculated insurance rates for cryptocurrency exchange users who can now insure their accounts against cyber threats. A Group-IB report “ 2018 Cryptocurrency Exchanges: Analysis of User Account Leaks ” shows a steady increase in incidents involving compromised user accounts.

Insurance 62

Insurance Cryptocurrency Cyber threats Marketing 62

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Our old Twitter account, which was suspended, had pretty much many attacks on government agencies, corporations, educational institutions, ministries, and many, many other things around the world (which we still do, just on a smaller scale). Last but not least, nothing is safe on the internet. We have many motivations and reasons.

Hacking 93

Hacking Banking Education Government 93

Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2018

“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. Securi ty Affairs – industrial sector, cybercrime).

Phishing 44

Phishing VPN Passwords Software 44

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. It has been estimated that there are about 90,000 “orphaned” Necurs bots in the wild. ” continues the blog post.

DNS 79

DNS Banking Advertising Ransomware 79

Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2018

“Unlike last year’s Apache Struts exploit ( CVE-2017-5638 ), which was at the center of the Equifax breach , this vulnerability appears easier to exploit because it does not require the Apache Struts installation to have any additional plugins running in order to successfully exploit it.”. continues the report from Volexity.

Architecture 47

Architecture Cryptocurrency Wireless Advertising 47

Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Mismanagement of user accounts – using admin privileges to upgrade user access may result in a data breach for personal profit or copying files with customer information. A lack of security features to upgrade or downgrade a user may result in mismanagement of user accounts. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

Data breaches 52

Data breaches Healthcare Telecommunications Financial Services 52