Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Group-IB and Swiss insurance broker ASPIS that owns CryptoIns project, have developed the world’s first scoring model for assessing cryptocurrency exchanges. Based on the risk score, CryptoIns experts have calculated insurance rates for cryptocurrency exchange users who can now insure their accounts against cyber threats.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The internet has drawn comparisons to the Wild West, making ransomware the digital incarnation of a hold-up. They could be on the other side of the globe, part of a cybercrime regime that will never be discovered, much less brought to justice. Prevalence. million in adjusted losses. The impact of ransomware.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2022

The gang focuses on infecting cloud hosts to deploy cryptocurrency miners by exploiting known vulnerabilities and conducting brute-force attacks. PwnRig cryptocurrency miner execution. The 8220 Gang selects victims by identifying them through their internet accessibility. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2021

The cybercrime group Rocke is using a new piece of cryptojacking malware called Pro-Ocean to target vulnerable Apache ActiveMQ, Oracle WebLogic, and Redis intalls. The malware is an evolution of a Monero cryptocurrency miner that was first spotted by Unit 42 researchers in 2019.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Three men who admitted to being the authors of the Mirai botnet avoided the jail after helping the FBI in other cybercrime investigations. Now three individuals who admitted to being the authors of the infamous botnet avoided the jail after helping feds in another cybercrime investigations. District Judge Timothy M. “On Dec.

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Herjavec Group

OCTOBER 27, 2020

According to Cybersecurity Ventures – cybercrime will cost the world $6 trillion annually by 2021 ! Cybercrime will cost the world $6 trillion annually by 2021 , up from $3 trillion in 2015. Global cybersecurity spending is not keeping up, and is estimated to be $1 trillion cumulatively over the 5 year period from 2017 to 2021.

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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.

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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

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.

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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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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In it, we identified the trends, threats, and innovations in cybercrime that small businesses need to know about in order to keep their websites secure. Even as the number of attacks rose, only 60,000 sites in our sample were actually compromised — which is comparable to our 2017 findings.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 19, 2023

While cryptocurrencies have been celebrated for their potential to revolutionize finance, their anonymous nature has also been exploited for illicit activities. From drug dealing and arms trafficking to funding terrorism, black market activities have thrived under the cloak of cryptocurrency’s pseudonymity.

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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

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2020

The malware is being distributed via large-scale COVID-19-themed spam campaigns, the messages use an RTF exploit targeting the CVE-2017-8570 Microsoft Office RCE to deliver the malicious payload. Upon infecting a device, the malware delivers an XMRig Monero (XMR) miner.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

According to experts from Avast, the Torii bot has been active since at least December 2017, it could targets a broad range of architectures, including ARM, MIPS, x86, x64, PowerPC, and SuperH. The Torii IoT botnet stands out for the largest sets of architectures it is able to target. ” reads the analysis published by Avast.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

Primarily, that includes any social media and email accounts, as well as associated financial instruments such as bank accounts and any cryptocurrencies. Thus, the second factor cannot be phished, either over the phone or Internet. But this activity gradually has evolved toward more direct and aggressive monetization of such access.

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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.”. ” states the report published by Volexity.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2019

We expect that that other APTs like Silence , MoneyTaker , and Cobalt will stage multiple attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges in the near future,” – says Dmitry Volkov. Qbot worm gathers login credentials through use of keylogger, steals cookie files and certificates, active internet sessions, and forwards users to fake websites.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. For access to the decryption key, the victim must make prompt payment, often in cryptocurrency shielding the attacker’s identity. Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD)Restrictions.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

“JAMES ZHONG pled guilty to committing wire fraud in September 2012 when he unlawfully obtained over 50,000 Bitcoin from the Silk Road dark web internet marketplace. The authorities seized the stolen funds on November 2021, at the time it was the biggest-ever seizure of cryptocurrency. ” . . billion mystery.

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SecureList

MAY 12, 2021

Finally, negotiations with the victims may be handled by yet another team and when the ransom is paid out, a whole new set of skills is needed to launder the cryptocurrency obtained. They interact with each other through internet handles, paying for services with cryptocurrency. Access sellers. Part II: The darknet shenanigans.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The bot infiltrated the devices through the CVE-2017-6079 vulnerability, which allows execution of arbitrary commands. Like CVE-2017-6079, this vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands. The botnet can also install proxy servers on infected devices, mine cryptocurrency and conduct DDoS attacks. fold increase.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Another actor, the operator of two “stressers” (used to carry out DDoS attacks) was found guilty of cybercrime in court. The fate of the WireX botnet operator , who attacked an international hotel chain in 2017, is a little more hazy. Sentencing will not take place until January 2022.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2024

Hackers may have accessed thousands of accounts on the California state welfare platform Brokewell Android malware supports an extensive set of Device Takeover capabilities Experts warn of an ongoing malware campaign targeting WP-Automatic plugin Cryptocurrencies and cybercrime: A critical intermingling Kaiser Permanente data breach may have impacted (..)

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

And the targets in this case are widespread: banks, ATMs, cryptocurrency exchanges, online casinos, movie studios such as Sony Pictures, and theater chains such as AMC. million from an Indonesian cryptocurrency company in September 2018; and $11.8 It shows the nation-state's sweeping efforts to steal $1.3 The list goes on. sanctions.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

While this untrustworthy behavior is nothing new in the world of cybercrime, the victims' data end up in the hands of multiple threat actors, increasing the risks of one or more large scale attacks to follow. Check for an Internet connection. Cryptocurrency services*. ud83dudcb0 *Cryptocurrency services*. ?? Key Points.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Ransom payments are generally demanded in the form of untraceable cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin. Between the initial damage inflicted on your data, the threat of data leak to the Internet, and the loss of business as a result of damaged customer confidence, the net effect on your business can be major. Should You Pay the Ransom?

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

On the modern Internet, malware is a near-constant presence. Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), the precursor of the modern Internet we know, love, and sometimes hate. Worms and the Dawn of the Internet Age: 1987-2000. Want to Learn More About Malware?

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Ransomware was a relatively obscure form of malware until the early 2010s , but it has increased in scope and the amount of damage it has caused year after year, aided by a proliferation of botnets , cryptocurrencies , and sophisticated criminal enterprises. households had an estimated 11 internet-connected devices per household.

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